Comments on: Don’t get off the boat

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:46:17 +0000

wow, I gotta preview these things first. We DO say “Spam-a-lot”, but in this case we SAW “Spam-a-lot”..

By: paul

paul — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:43:29 +0000

I was just in New York City with my wife and we saw a musical called “Shock Headed Peter”.

Why do I bring it up? Because all the songs featured the accordian prominently, and also be cause almost all of the songs ended with “and then he (or sometimes she) was………….. Dead.”

A great play, I think out of England necessarily. We also say “Spam-a-lot” but there were no accordians that I recall.

By: jilbur

jilbur — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:12:42 +0000

is ‘chellar” how they say ‘cello’ in certain New York accents? I should know this. I once went out with a guy whose sister’s name was Anita, and they did call her ‘Aneeder’, but only when the word following her name began with a vowel. Thus, “Anita did a baaaad, baaaad thing”; but “Aneeder is a naughty, naughty girl.”

By: eeksypeeksy

eeksypeeksy — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:46:03 +0000

“I was standing in front of a canvas in my cellar yesterday thinking…”

When I read that, “cellar” sounded like “chellar” in my head.

By: mig

mig — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:06:08 +0000

Ehm, the PhD thing wasn’t exactly a verbatim quote. It seemed like the sort of thing a copperhead would say. Call it painting with a broad brush. We had granola bars. In the car. Parked far away in a garage.
And tasty cough drops. Which we ate like, eh, candy. Tasty, sugar-free cough drops.

When I get hungry, glucose-starved hungry, I don’t have any idea what I want to eat. Usually I don’t even realize hunger is my problem. Gamma, however, was saying, “I want spaghetti. With meat sauce.” She may have said al dente, too.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:50:19 +0000

Seriously. Carry chocolates. Or a small bag of nuts – those are the best because you can convince yourself there’s protein entering your system. Even cough drops help for the blood sugar thing, and as I recall you guys have some tasty tasty cough drops there.
Copperheads with Tasers. Hee.
At least they don’t get so hungry they can’t spare the energy to determine what exactly it is they want to eat. That happens to me way too often.

By: lucy

lucy — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:44:39 +0000

She could have suggested you were lacking a degree in “something useful”; like the old joke about St. Peter letting the lawyer into heaven ahead of the priest “because we have so few of them here”.

Didn’t you even have a tic-tac? No emergency chocolate stash? Pffft. Amateur.

By: jilbur

jilbur — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:44:04 +0000

in my world, if you’d gotten a PhD, you’d be going through a dumpster looking for bread that wasn’t too moldy. no, really.

Well, no, not really, but close. When I was in a PhD program, the salaries I was hearing people starting at were less than 10% more than the mediocre library staff salary I was making seven years earlier.