sleight of hand
This is the Quotation Book.
Jon: “Of course, some of us poop in our pants.”
Kriss: “There’s too many legs here!”
Eli: “I went over here so people wouldn’t smell it!”
Ann: “Gaborgachev” and “Assarafat”
derek: “He’s got a thing for crazy, apparently.”
Alisa: “Get busy making Chex Mix, or the Chex Mix will get busy making _you.”_
“Errs to throne”
bq. _Chicago Tribune,_ October 28, 2006, referring to St. Louis’s World Series win, 4 games to 1 over Detroit
This headline works in so many ways: criticizing Detroit for making so many critical errors, dissing St. Louis by suggesting they backed into the title through little virtue of their own, and of course it’s a perfect pun.
Ann just said, “You look for software like I look for shoes.”
Segmented marketing, sure: but this is ridiculous. You might want to have more than one possible buyer in mind.
“Champs make mockery of listless Cubs”
bq. _Chicago Tribune,_ May 20, 2006, referring to the White Sox’s win in the Chicago teams’ first meeting of 2006
“Gotta get up near the teacher if you can
If you wanna learn anything”
bq. Bob Dylan, “Floater (Too Much to Ask),” _Love and Theft_ (2001)
“LollapaLucy”
bq. Ann Boyd’s IM status message, May 4, 2006
“Scones == Giant Cookies”
bq. Nathan Lenz, IM status message, April 14, 2006
“Sox overcome rain, Tribe”
bq. _Chicago Tribune,_ April 3, 2006
“Post-Title Pitfall: Complacency”
bq. _Chicago Tribune,_ April 2, 2006, early edition