Quote of the Week…kinda
I would love to be party to so much witty banter that I had enough material to warrant a regular “Quote of the Week” slot on the Misssives. But it not being the 19th Century where people entertained themselves by telling stories of amusing japes a la Oscar Wilde, I fear I could struggle. And anyway it would only make my students compete to get quoted as the ice cream and dog conversation boys already seem to have gone up a gear since reading the blog devoted to their banter.
So I will try to do a quote of the week, but it might not be weekly. So don’t try and sue me if it ends up being a bit irregular. Also a further disclaimer; they might not be quotes, or witty one liners but overheard conversations etc.
So actually the Phrase “Quote of the Week” might end up being a bit of a misnomer. But the title of “Stuff What I Have Heard” seems a little weak.
Ok, so have I destroyed your enthusiasm enough? Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you….
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
This week I am spoilt for choice as two gentlemen had cause to make me laugh. One intentionally, one not. First the intentional:
Intentional Quote of the Week
In the Swimming pool B is extolling the virtues of Dundee’s swimming park.
“The flumes are ace. There’s this really steep one, where the exit is halfway up a wall. It’s ace; it’s like being shat out!”
That made me laugh. Especially since for years I denied the existence of the past tense of “shit”(v.). It just seems too silly a word. I had to be shown it in a dictionary before I would relent.
Quote of the Week’s Unintentional Quote.
I am in the car with a work colleague and we’re talking about the elections and politics and stuff like we know what we’re talking about and he says,
“Ahhhh, what’s the name of that guy?”
Me: “What guy?”
Him: “That politician, you know…why can’t I remember his name? The…the orange one”
Me: “Oh, Ian Paisley”
Him: “No! no! Ha! Ha! Sheridan. Tommy Sheridan! HA!”
More quote(s) or the week next week, or month or whenever I remember….
