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"So it gives you the same effect as 3 shots of vodka." Bobbie, on Lisa talking about her beaming confidence when she wears her cowboy hat.
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"That could keep me entertained all night long." Loeby, on the huge bottle of Belvedere by the bar. "Me too." My swooning response.
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"We just want to nibble..." Bobbie
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"You don't have an appetizer with little pieces of steak, do you?" Bobbie, to a guy at Left Bank. "We have tar tare." His response.
"Can we cook it?" Bobbie
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"Let me make you a drink..." Ben/Sven, our creative Left Bank bartender surprising us each with special drinks.
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"We're happenin' chicks." D, on a photo someone took of us Synapta girls out on a Saturday afternoon.
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"You can use my key for $5everything is business these days." Dad, when I couldn't find my car key.
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"God, when I'm old I can't even open the OJthat could be a problem." Dad
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"Approved. You can leave the house now." Dad, to me, on my outfit.
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"It will look like a dog, but it will taste good... Oh, I'm not talking about you--I'm talking about waffles." Dad's weird comments while preparing breakfast while I was getting ready to go out for the day.
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"Ask me--I'm a fashion consultant. I knowI've won awards." Silly Dad, giving input on what shoes I should wear to brunch one day.
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"You haven't hit me in like 10 minutes!" Doodle, surprised.
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"You gonna step up and do your part?" Doodle, on us potentially ordering a bottle of wine to split at dinner.
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"Freak is good. I enjoy being one myself." Nicki, to me.
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"Oh, you're single? Is that why you wear those boots?" Fernando, at work, to me in my high black leather boots. Oh, dear.
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"I got a good taste of the consulting world... Fancy food, lots of drinks, social life and all expenses go to the company!" Cheekers, on going out for her bday when she was on site
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"Well I can see you, and you're looking better than ever!" Daniel, on being able to see me on his msn buddy list after I switched to using Trillian to be able to talk to all my im friends.
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"We were not meant to be vegetarians. Cause if we were, meat would not taste this good." Michael B.
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"Thanks for setting up a date for us on Sunday....a meat date." Nicki, to me.
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"Whenever I'm in pediatrics or the nursery (which is not very often, mind you) I think of you." Mikey, working at the hospital that I was born in. |
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"Enjoy your warm sun while I stumble to my car in the frigid New England wind." SingleT |
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"I'm back in the US!" Daniel's text message to me after his Germany trip. |
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"Happy Thursday/Friday." Aussie Livin James, to me. |
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"Man, I wish I could restaurant hang with you sometime." Clayton, to me, on my love of nice restaurants.
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"Hey I need your brain for a second." Anjali, wanting to ask me a question.
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"We're in this basket together sister." Leslie, on both of us feeling like basketcases that day.
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"You're wicked unfreaky." Boston Mike, trying to make me feel better.
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"I feel famous, before the only time my name came up on Google was as a Cure/Robert Smith expert." Leslie, on my Google addition to my site.
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"I just tried to explain the US electoral college system to my morning tea friends and looked totally foolish." James, US representative in Australia.
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"We don't have curly fries anymore." Waiter at Chili's, delivering very disappointing news. How can that be possible to have a world where Chili's doesn't have curly fries???
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"I like you, Dad" Me
"I know. I like me too." Dad's response
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"I was all excited, cuz I don't meet too many people like me." C4, on meeting a girl at school that is obsessed with Counting Crows as well. |
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"I'm always rebounding, though. So that doesn't bother me much." Corie, on the thought of dating a guy who may be on the rebound. |
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"I think underground hip hop is more like white guys with backpacks." Corie |
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"I am certainly not the brains of this family!" TripleG, on doublebooking his social activities. |
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"Just treat her right and you'll be good." Me, giving Mitchel girl advice.
"You mean like taking her to Cold Stone?" Mitch, playing on my cravings. |
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"It sounds like it's going to be fun... I'm surprised you didn't book Dido for your little party to do a set. Or at least the Counting Crows." Mitch, on my upcoming birthday party. |
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"Leslie helped me decorate my place with naked men all over the place." SD Stacy, on getting ready for a bachlorette party. |
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"We drank wine all day Saturday and then couldn't drink anymore with dinner." Steph, on Suz's bridal shower/birthday celebration. |
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"DON'T READ YOUR EMAIL. I just copied you on your present. OH GOD I AM AN IDIOT." Steph, being a nut. "No worries. I'm the exact opposite of a peekerI wait until the last possible minute to open presents." Me |
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"Did I say something witty?" Eric, on having me reply to my bday evite for him. |
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"Take a pictureI carried the first box and now I'm carrying the last." Chris, during Dice's move. |
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"I hope you all eat every dish. Just don't get drunk." Grandma, to the 'kids table' of all the cousins celebrating Chinese New Year. |
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"Too bad we don't live by each other so we can watch lame shows together." RoHo, to me |
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"Checked my Eviteup to 28 people!!!!!" Me
"Cool!" Laurie.
"48, I mean." Me, correcting my typo
"Cooler." Laurie |
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"It's party time. I am gonna get drunk." Daddy Bhanu, on my bday party, while he's wife's away in India with their kid. |
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"I have no work to do. I shaved my head last night... I look pretty bald, but I like it." James' random IM conversation shift. |
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"I did get back to the arctic tundra..." Ryan F., on a very cold New Jersey. |
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"You are very bright young grasshopper." Scotchers, to me, on guessing that he was the one with the birthday celebration the week before mine. |
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"Don't eat too much for lunchtimeprepare your stomach for dinner." Grandma, on the day of their Chinese New Year dinner. |
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"Emperor dinnermost expensive, fit for an emperor." Grandpa, on the Chinese New Year banquet he pre-ordered. |
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"Yum yum for the tum tum." Reggie, on being able to make Tom Kha Gai. |
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"My mind is a lot like the groundhog. It only leaves the gutter once a year." Crazy CT Ed |
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"Actually its really sadthere's really only a limited selection out there. Most women are either too nuts or too sane." Ed on his dating experience |
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"I'm in the bathroom alone. I miss my b-room chip eating buddy." RoHo's text after she got home after our Vancouver trip. |
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"Hope you are having a great time in food land o Canada." Nicki's text to me while I was there. |
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"I didn't want to look like a froofy food virgin and say it was so good until you did." Roho, to me, on our nice meal at Lumiere in Vancouver. |
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"That dinner was very satisfyingdid I tell you that? It was my favorite part of the trip. That and getting to sleep with Eve." My cousin Ro, on our awesome Lumiere dinner. |
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"These are the best after 8 course dinner pants ever." RoHo, on Roots sweats. |
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"Why do I always get the mystery meat?" RoHo, on her second random slice of Canadian 93 cent pizza. |
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"I like itit's not too sweet." Mom, on maple almonds.
"I don't like itit's too sweet." Dad, on the same almonds. |
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"We're eating potato chips in the bathroom." Ro, to me, after we went out one night in Vancouver. |
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"Do you like my hair?" Ro, with a funky do in the morning. |
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"I slept at 2 and got up at 4, but I had enough sleep: 2 hours, 15 minutes." Dad |
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"Have some noodles." Ro to Dad.
"No, I'm full." Dad, while picking up his chopsticks to eat them. |
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"No wonder they're all dying in the midwest." Mom, on a meal my uncle's girlfriend madeall with cheese and butter. |
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"Time to find a lunch place." Me, waking up on the first day in Vancouver.
"OoohFood Network. We have to see out chef." Ro, the start of us perpetually watching that channel to see the chef of one of the restaurants we were going to in Canada. |
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"And the eating begins." RoHo, in Seattle, on our way to Vancouver. |
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"Big haircut/color weekend for meI'm going for the Dido look." Hope |
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"The combination of tastes and textures was just crazylike a party for your mouth." Jaimes, on dinner at a fancy fusion restaurant in Melbourne. |
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"I've always wanted to be in a Bond Movie!" Daniel, on my bday party locale Hi-Fi. |
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"Yeah...it was great fun. We were wasted by 4pm on Saturday." Steph's response to me asking about Suz's wine country bachlorette party. |
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"What, and miss my first chance to party with ya? No way I'm missing this. Rain nor sleet nor Chinese New Year parade. Ok well maybe the last one could get me stuck in some traffic." Laurie, on my bday invite. |
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"Are you doing marketing for Starbucks now? I saw the word 'schmoopy' on their Valentines Day display." Hope, to me. |
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"Have some more mimosas, they'll help your cough." Boston Mike, on our celebration drinks in a work meeting that morning. |
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"I moved my computers on thursday night5 towers. Brought the laptop over fri. 1 tv went fri, the 27" tv, 3 vcrs and dvd player went Sat. 4 boxes of movies, 3.5 boxes of books, 1.5 boxes of video game stuff. PS2 came down today. I like toys!" Nutty Packing Lady |
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"Work = Office Space." Yed's response to how things were going. |
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"Fast forward." Dad, while watching TV with me (through Tivo, of course).
"We're caught up." Me, telling him we're in real time and had no more room to fast forward.
"What a waste of time." Dad, on live TV |
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"Go Green Bay!" Dad, after the Packers were up 14 during the Eagles game.
"Lose Green Bay!" Dad, after Philadelphia scored. |
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"It doesn't matter who dieshe'll still lose." Dad's sympathetic position on Brett Favre at the start of the Green Bay/Philadelphia playoff game. |
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"It's not like Mr. Toad's Wild Ridethere are fans in this hell." Me, on the basement of Cloud9. |
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"It's more fun in hell." Kathi |
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"My favorite part is the padded walls." Victor, at Cloud9. |
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"Everyonehell's open! Me, at Cloud9 |
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"My goal is not to get drunk tonight." Kathi, at Leslie's party after a wild time over the hoildays. |
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"I'm so tired." Dad
"Duh, you just got back from Japan!" Mom and me.
"Soit's just another country!" Dad's response. |
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"When I'm jetlag, I'm not tired." Dad, after coming back from Japan. |
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"Do you get any bonus for linking to Kevin Bacon?" Eric, on Friendster. |
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"Did you just take a shot of nail polish?" Anjali, to Stephan on the Soju shot. |
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"I know where the line is, I just choose not to step there." Loeby |
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"I MADE IT I MADE IT!!!!!!! I MADE THE LIST!!!" Mark, on one of my invites after he knew I perviously wasn't too happy with him.
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"Well Duh! Yeah I'll have to .. I don't want a naked eyeball!!!" Niff, on Bercrombie wearing eye makeup. |
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"It feels like a day with you today. I had a major lunch at PF Changs... now I have to go eat Italian tonight yet." Niff, to me. |
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"Well I'll match what you do." Me on what type of clothes to wear to Leslie R's party.
"You want to get matching outfits?" Leslie |
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"I'm wavy gravy today... jet lag at its best." Anjali, after coming home from Sri Lanka. |
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"I have work to do... for a change. Not too happy about it." James |
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"There's nothing like putting on a uniform and running into people." Tony, reminiscing about playing football. |
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"I'll be therelove your birthday!" Hope's immediate response to my birthday party plans. |
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"Well, we don't do anything about V-dayour anniversary is on the 3rd, so all the mushy stuff happens then." Clayton, on him and his wife. |
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"I am so wise." Me, to Loeby
"You are. I am going to call you obie-wan." Loeby's response.
"No. I dont want to be a dead ghost! With an ugly robe even." Me
"Can I call you eve-ers-wan? Then you are real with cute clothes." Loeby's conclusion |
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"It's been a while since I've visited IM world." James, after being away for the holidays. |
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"Tell Mom I have a ticket back now on the 9th....arriving around noon on Friday. I am no longer stranded." Dad, who couldn't book a way back from Japan when he left cause the flights were full. |
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"I rooted for the Packers for the first time in my life." Me, to Aunt Denise in WI
"Great, that's probably why we won. You gotta root for the family." Aunt Denise |
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"This is what you're watching while playoff football is on?????" Me, to mom, on some gardening show. |
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"We drank a whole bottle of vodka." Nicki, to me, the next morning, after having fun drinking out of her new cute flute glasses. |
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"There's nothing like a bottle of vodka, a bag of Cheetos, and a..." Nicki. Man I have no idea what I scribbled down that night! |
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"I'll make it on the next quote page, don't you see Lu!" Nicki, to her cat. |
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"My father-in-law has calculated that I have shoveled approximately 2.5 tons of snow these past 4 days." Clayton, while in Tahoe. |
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"She's still 'God Bless[ing] Miss Kosol' before she goes to bedyou must have made an impression." Clayton, about his daughter Catherine. |
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"I should be home in an hour or 2. Any food man?? HAM again? HAM HAM and HAM." Dad, on our endless Xmas leftovers. |
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"I can't talk and think at the same time. I'm not like Eve multitasking." Dad |