August 2, 2003:
QOTW Members:All together now, everybody: "No voting during the summer!" Not that I don't love to receive your votes, but the astute human being will note that no winner has been chosen since early June, and so your vote won't really do much of anything.
This week has an exceptional batch of Honorable Mentions, so I reccomend to everyone that you sign up by emailing me and saying, "Ben, I admit the error of my ways. I understand now that I cannot live without Honorable Mentions. Please sign me up." Sure, you've got to swallow your dignity, but it's worth it.
This Week's Quotes:
"If I'm just watching you, do I have to wear pants anyway?" -Daniel, to Joanna
"Imagine if you had Life cereal but you had drugs in it. Then you could really be high on life!" -Dewey
"Sure, that's big enough for Josh, but we have to fit his ego down there, too." -Miller, on digging a hole in the sand to bury Josh
"I do my best to bring grave reflection upon the world, one IM conversation at a time." -Kathryn
"Have you ever seen his nose? I mean, why does he need a bat?" -Miller, on Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra
"It's sparkling and it's hanging off my butt. What do you THINK it is?" -Micheline
"It needs a bleaching and an exorcism." -Reilly, on the infamous couch in the Commonwealth lobby
"Hamlet's not coherent enough to be straight." -Aaron R.
"I'm funnier when I talk about baseball, because I'm a Red Sox fan, and that's just funny." -Miller
"'There was once a rock formation here. Wow.'" -Lily, on the future of the site of New Hampshire's man in the mountain, which recently collapsed
Congratulations to Miller, by the way, for becoming only the second person ever to have three nominee-caliber quotes in the same week.
-Ben "bad shot" Orlin
August 2, 2003: Honorable Mentions
"Kendall is a one-trick pony." -Julian, on the Red Line stop Kendall"I think we should make Dummy: The Musical. It'll run from July 14 until we write it." -Julian
"You don't really jam on a cello." -Dewey
"You look the same, but YOU look horribly different." -Annalee, to Lily and then to Orlin
"Sprite is like, 'Our image is that we have no image.' The problem, you see, is that it's self-referential." -Julian
"It's all the cliches you could ever want, but it's made in India!" -Julian, on the film Lagaan
"He's kind of like Josh, but slimy. -er." -Miller, on Massachusetts Governer Mitt Romney
"That's it! My life's a Bollywood musical!" -Josh, as people tried to assign themselves movie genres
"Asi, no." -Yadelis (that name is horribly misspelled, and pronounced "ja-DAY-lee"), approximately 3 years old and a native Spanish speaker, instructing me on how to write the letter I. (Translation: "Not like that.")
"Como dijo Mirtha el otro dia, 'Me vas a ahorcar por una s?' Si, te vamos a ahorcar por una s." -Carmen, on using hangman to teach English (Translation: "Like Mirtha said the other day, 'You're going to hang me for an s?' Yes, we're going to hang you for an s.")
"Buck's Rock people are really just Commonwealth people without homework." -Joanna, likening her summer camp to her high school
"You can't sit next to him in class and not be completely distracted by his eyebrows." -Reilly, on Mr. Davis
"She was... numb. I guess it's better than just handing her the wedding invitation." -Micheline, on finally telling her Mom about dating Jeff for the past two years
"He was at the age where he looks like a squashed human." -Nanette, on a boy on the train
"Por eso es tan blancito." -Carlos, on the fact that Orlin never drinks coffee (Translation: "That's why he's so white.")
I'll be leaving on the "Prodigious Roooad Trip" tomorrow, but worry not, I intend to put out a QOTW "Road Trip" Edition when I return next Sunday.
-QOTW Management
