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  • Wednesday, April 26, 2006

    Another dream of oddness

    I had a wierd dream two nights ago. It was in several parts. I don't know if I'll remeber all of it. Lita was a tiny girl and going to kindergarten for the first time. She tried to get on the bus but they told her to go back and fix her paperwork. It was a problem that her name was written on the wrong line. Lots of other moms had trouble with their paperwork too so Lita's mom was running a consulting service to do their paperwork for them. I remember on the paperwork for Lita had her full name which was Ikeote (pronounced Eekay ota) and Lita was merely a nickname. And that's not true in real life. Lita is the whole thing.
    There was something about Dan and going to high school classes but I forget beyond that. Yesterday I remembered more. Oh well.

    Sunday, April 23, 2006

    Talkings

    Me: There's nothing that a symphony orchestra can't fix...
    Except for maybe.. humpty dumpty.

    Woody: I just forgot your name.

    Me reciting a TV quote: Absolute last, final, full shtop, cross my heart and hope to be shpanked until my bottom goes purple.

    Woody: As long as I hear your pretty little voice.
    in response to telling him about a test he doesn't really want to set up but has to

    Me: What comes next, 'I'm a little-'
    Woody: Shamrock?

    Friday, April 21, 2006

    I just realized,

    Thanks to my friend Woody I have a Ben Folds number of 3! He's got me listening to the music of Ben Lee, who he met. Ben Lee worked with Ben Folds on an album called The Bens. Ben Lee is 1, Woody is 2, and I'm three. Yaha!

    The movie title game

    My sisters and I made this one up one day for no reason. Take any word and make it into a movie title that is a parody of a real movie title. We usually use the word 'Shiloh' because of some books one of my sisters used to read about a dog called Shiloh. Here's a bunch made around my name:

    A Streetcar named Tracey
    When Harry met Tracey
    The Color Tracey
    Planet of the Tracey
    Gentlemen Prefer Tracey
    The Sound of Tracey
    Tracey always rings twice
    The Swiss Family Tracey
    The Tracey and I
    Casatracey
    The African Tracey
    Two Mules for Sister Tracey
    Bridge over the river Tracey
    Tracey: A new Hope
    The Return of Tracey
    Attack of the Traceys
    Revenge of the Tracey
    Lord of the Tracey
    The Fellowship of the Tracey
    Tracey, the Two Towers

    The list of course goes on and on...

    Monday, April 17, 2006

    Blackadder

    My current favorite show is Blackadder II, followed by Blackadder III. Series one and four are just ok. It is a show starring Rowan Atkinson of Mr Bean as well as some very funny sidekicks including Hugh Laurie, who stars in the new show House. British 80's comedies these are, in six half hour episodes per series. Each one takes place in a different era in history under the pretence that a fellow named Edmund Blackadder lived once upon a time and schemed about greatness, though it always eludes him. Each series is a different Edmund whose predecessor was the previous Edmund, all are played by Rowan. Here are some quotes from series II which I have rented recently:

    Poor old father telling his daughter Kate she needs to support him-
    father: Our poverty has reached such extremes that I now have to look to my poor darling to sustain me in my frail dotage.
    Kate: You mean?
    father: Yes my dear. I want you to become a prostitute.
    Kate: Father! I am young and clever. My nose is pretty! I shall think of a way to support us.
    father: Oh please go on the game!
    Kate: Never! I will go to London, disguise myself as a boy, and seek my fortune! (leaves)
    father: (calling after her) Why walk all the way to London when you can make a fortune lying on your back?

    Nursie telling a stupid story to Queen Elizabeth-
    You almost were a boy my little cherry pit. Yeah, out you popped, out of your mummy's tumkin. And everyone shouted- It's a boy! It's a boy! And then someone said- But it hasn't got a winkle. And I said- A boy without a winkle? God be praised it's a miracle! A boy without a winkle! And then Sir Thomas Moore pointed out that a boy without a winkle is a girl. Everyone was really disappointed.

    Blackadder addressing a creepy old lady-
    Blackadder: Tell me young crone is this Putney?
    Crone: That it be, that it be.
    B: Yes it is not that it be. You don't have to talk in that stupid voice with me, I'm not a tourist. I seek information about a wise woman.
    C: (gasp) The wise woman, THE WISE WOMAN
    B: Yes the wise woman.
    C: Two things, my lord, must ye know of the wise woman. First, she is a WOMAN!
    And second, SHE IS . . .
    B: Wise?
    C: (straightens up drops the spooky accent) You do know her then?
    B: No just a wild stab in the dark. Which is incidentally what you'll be getting if you don't start being a bit more helpful.
    (Crone proceeds to tell Blackadder where the wise woman is)
    B: Thank you young crone. Here is a purse of monies- which I'm not going to give you.

    Maybe you have to see them, but I think the quotes are rather funny. I'll bring more if more get stuck in my head.

    added 4/20
    Blackadder: Bob, this is Percy, a dimwit I don't seem to be able to shake off.

    Queen: Hurry up Edmund, I want to get to the party so I can get scriffy and seduce someone.

    Blackadder and Kate are about to marry
    K: And now I want you to meet my father.
    B: (to her father obviously thinking he's a nobody) Excuse me could you move along. (no response) Look I'm waiting for my father-in-law. Last thing I want is some dirty peasant blocking up the hallway.
    father: I am your father in law!
    B: Alright how much do you want to shove off?
    K: Edmund!
    father: About twenty pounds should do the trick.
    K: Father! (father leaves) Edmund you musnt!
    B: Oh don't worry I'll get Bauldrick to beat him up. We'll get the twenty pounds back.

    Blackadder is met in a corridor by two strangers-
    #1: Excuse me meister!
    Blackadder: Yes what is it? (#2 stranger hits him on the head from behind)
    Blackadder: I said what is it, not hit me hard- ooh! (he collapses as the strike affects him belatedly)

    Lord Melchett and Blackadder are in a dungeon, both having been hit on the head and kidnapped-
    Blackadder: What on earth was I drinking last night? My head feels like there's a Frenchman living in it. Who's there?
    Melchett: It is I, Lord Melchett.
    B: You really ought to clean this place of yours up you know.

    Blackadder needs to pay back a loan to the black monks on pain of death-
    Blackadder: I'm up a certain creek without a certain instrument. Either I raise a thousand pounds by this evening, or I get murdered. What should I do?
    Baldrick: It's obvious.
    Blackadder: What?
    Baldrick: You'll have to get murdered. You'll never raise that sort of money.

    Blackadder: I consider myself one of England's finest liars. (looks out the door) Oh, my god, Percy! A giant hummingbird is about to eat your hat and cloak!
    Percy: Oh no! (runs out then returns after a moment) It seems to have gone now.

    Blackadder appears before his puritanical aunt totally drunk-
    Aunt: Explain why you are wearing a cardinal's hat, why you are grinning inanely, and why you have an ostrich feather sticking out of your britches!
    Blackadder: I'm wearing a cardinal's hat because I'm Cardinal Chunder. I have an ostrich feather up my bottom because Mr Ostrich put it there to keep in the little pixies. And I'm grinning inanely because I think I've just about succeeded in conning you and your daft husband out of a whopping great inheritance!
    (the funniest bit about this speech is how Percy, Blackadder's friend, begins mouthing the words from across the room as though this has happened before often enough to be a common explanation for his odd outfit.)

    Wednesday, April 12, 2006

    Perfect Iambic Pentameter without even trying!

    I dreamt I was a ship upon the sea
    I am myself alone and only me
    I dreamt I was a bird upon the sky
    I am myself alone and only I
    I saw you out alone upon the waves
    In this and more I know you to be brave
    I saw you out alone upon the sky
    Take heart and know your wings will let you fly
    You will not be alone if I am there
    on wind and wave, or in the balmy air
    You will not be alone if you're with me
    For you and I together, we are we.





    In case you need further clarification: It's a doozie, but don't say you weren't warned

    Monday, April 10, 2006

    What else..

    Oh my god, listen, there is NO MRS "my husband's name"! I AM ME! OK?! ME! Got it? GOOD!

    I am stuck on bandaid brand cause bandaids stick on me!

    Oh here's the jingle for goldfish those baked and not fried goldfish,
    the wholesome snack that smiles back until you bite their heads off.
    Now you know they're made with real cheese even though they look like fishies.
    The snack that smiles back; goldfish!

    I saw PeeWee Herman on an episode of Campus Ladies the other day. He was playing a slightly odd drama teacher that the ladies had he helped them sort out a fight they were having. I would say, "I always wondered what happened to that guy" but in reality I never did wonder that at all. But in case one of you did, there ya go!

    Favorite sayings when someone is less than intelligent:
    Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
    Not the brightest crayon in the box
    Dumber than a box of rocks (my dad likes that one)
    Dumber than a bag of hammers

    Friday, April 07, 2006

    words in my head

    some words currently in my head:

    Denobulan-
    I think I spelled it right. It's an alien type in the Star Trek series

    Cinnibar Brown-
    Eye color for fruit flies. It is not the same as sepia.

    Blue gloves-
    This morning I tried to say it to Dan while still mostly asleep. I can't remember why either.