What phrases have stuck in your head?
By barbarella
@barbarella (354)
January 18, 2007 10:03pm CST
I don't mean proverbs or catchphrases, more things you have overheard or that people have said to you. I love the funny things that people say without meaning them to be funny and store up 'quotes of the day' in my head. I think they make wonderful springboards for fiction. A couple of examples: I was on the phone the other day and misheard the other person, thought he said: 'The pope is too small', from my boyfriend (dramatically): 'I've got no clean pants, my life is a shambles!'. They are just silly little things but I like them!
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@elizabethbathory (1132)
• United States
18 Apr 07
It's from Stephen King's It: He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts."
I don't know why, but I love saying that aloud, with all the s's. :)
@barbarella (354)
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19 Apr 07
I hope you're not the real Elizabeth Bathory, I've read about her - scary lady!
@aquariancore (608)
• United States
19 Jan 07
I have all the answers, but what I don't understand is why?
(But you just said you had all the answers, so you must know why)
@brihanna (381)
• United States
19 Jan 07
Several years ago, I was explaining to my 12 year old daughter how to use the washing machine.
Her reply to me was "I know Mom, it's not Rock Science".
Now, whenever we speak of something easily understood in our house we use the phrase, "It's not rock science."
@lyzlova (10)
• Russian Federation
28 Mar 07
Me and my friend (male russians whose english is second language) went to a mall in the US and while paying the cashier something caught my friend's eye and he just wanted to add it to the basket. As the thing he'd like to buy was closer to cashier girl he applied to her saying TAKE ME PLEASE (instead of GIVE ME PLEASE). You should have seen those girl's eyes after that.
