Today I said to someone that well, they should have expected having uppity neighbors when moving into a community largely inhabited by retired WASPs. Yankees are like that, you know, I joked.

Then I had to explain why I was referring to Long Islanders as Yankees.

o_O

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Summer in Colorado seems to vary from winters in that, after two consecutive days of perfectly nice 80-degree weather, rather than waking up to snow one will find oneself hydroplaning through a flash flood come 4:00 that evening.

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In digging around through my hard drive, I frequently find files scattered about that have only random quotes from... I dunno. I know a lot of them are actually things that I've heard or overheard, but I suspect that some of them were just saved from inpassing.org or something.

"The word is 'centaur.' Cinnitaur implies that it is somehow made of cinnamon."
I don't recall exactly, but I think Josh said this in reply to Anna's mispronunciation... It might have been Whitney.

Well. This one was definitely annA:
"What happens when the beaver sees it's shadow?"
"What?"
"I mean, what happens when the groundhog sees it's shadow?"


"Chalk lives forever!"
Once again, this is just a suspicion... but that was probably either Laura or me.


And Quiz Bowl. Who could ever forget Quiz Bowl? Between the Evil Empire of catholic schoolgirls neurotics, happily abandoning Dr. Feldhaus, tales of daring do accomplished by hapless gnomes, and ice-cream induced Brain-Freezes - which we totally never indulged in for the sole purpose of being able to blame that for our losses against aforementioned Evil Empire - QB trips are definitely a large portion of my memories of high school at RO.

"And the national currency of Korea is?"
"Yes, Yun Gee, we know."
"... IS...??"
"...won."