August 24, 2003:
QOTW Members:For lack of better introduction, here are some quotes:
"See, I started kindergarten when I was four, then I had a second year of it, since they decided I was too young. And they weren't sure if I was really stupid or colorblind." -Miller, who is in fact colorblind
"This tastes like rug." -Madame Folkman, on some jellybeans
"You can call me 'Shady Hil.' Ho! Stop me, please." -Hilary, graduate of the middle school Shady Hill
"This is the kind of thing that you pin on a little baby who doesn't know any better." -Jenn, on a bib with a picture of a pig and the words "I Pigged Out at Parker's" on it
"He can jump that far?!?" -Will, age 8, playing chess, after the opposing queen moved six spaces
"I hate these colleges. They slap themselves." -John, on college basketball scandals
"It's just about the most fun you'll have reading about horrible things happening to miserable small children." -Julian, on the "A Series of Unfortunate Events" books
"We kept singing too fast, so for a while we didn't know that 'elemenopee' was actually four different letters." -Miller, on learning the ABCs
"The spoon, in my opinion, is the most fearsome of the utensils." -Julian
"Curse you and your delicious maple products!" -Jenn, shaking her fist at Parker's Maple Barn as she drove away
Voting will pick up again either next week or the week after, so be prepared. And if you haven't yet, there's still time to sign up for the Honorable Mentions club. Do it now, before your youth passes you by.
-Ben "flapjack" Orlin
August 24, 2003: Honorable Mentions
"I'm convinced it makes me a better gol... er, never mind." -John, on the video game "Mario Golf""I'm a Red Sox fan. I have a superfluous amount of faith that's usually checked by cynicism, but that's because I'm a JEWISH Red Sox fan." -Miller, after being told to "have faith"
"Roger Clemens... I loved him in Boston. I loved him in Toronto. I loved him in Anger Management." -Miller
"No matter how hungry you are, don't eat your own lips." -Julian
And the useless rant of the week:
"This is the world that my and Caroline's generation is going to inherit. This is a world of value DVDs and forty television monitors showing the same thing. This is a world where mammoth superstores with Pizza Huts and hospitals built in replace civilization as we know it. This is a world where Creed and Eminem sit alongside the Beatles and Frank Sinatra on the 'classic CDs' shelf, a world where children are kept in shopping carts, like animals." -Orlin/Me, upon visiting the store "Target" for the first time
And lastly, a glimpse into the mad world of Instant Messaging with Ben Miller, a world where typos steer the conversation the way gravity steers the planets (specifically, in circles):
ChinMusic313: audios
ChinMusic313: which is kind of like "adios"
ChinMusic313: but louder
-QOTW Management
