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Quotes 2008
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Quotes are now in chronological order: oldest on top to newest on the bottom.

Now with links to my related yelp reviews. :-)


"Omg just found a list of a guy who has tried a gazillion sushi places around the area. Insane in the membrane." Me
"Be careful of calling other foodies insane. Remember you are the one who wrote hundreds of reviews in less than a month." Susan
"I gotta take a star down. What's the benefit of putting it in this cup?" Flor, annoyed by styrofoam usage.
"I love that place. That is my holy grail for tacos." Flor, on La Bamba
"You don't need to bring a bottle of wine when you come to this house." Me to Dad, since we're trying to drink off members of our collection.
"1, 2, 30 meals maybe." Dad, eyeing the new on bottle of crushed red pepper.
"We never get to watch Buffy." Me
"Yeah we do. On Sunday. Sundays are our Buffy days." DJ's self schedule.
"I'm just a mucous factory." DJ blowing his nose.
"Hey I noticed the Olympic rings form 888." Me, excited cause the games start on 8/8/08 this year.
"Most importantly it's my bday." Dad
"Yeah I know but isn't it cool? If they do something on tv for it you heard it here first." Me
"I know I'm cool." Dad
"The east bay paid for your lunch today." Mike, when I was complaining about the area he works in.
"My hair's more important than his shirt." Ricky, running out of time to get her husband a shirt to wear to a wedding.
"Fried is a food group." Mike
"There's some ice in there." Mike, helping Gisela get her glass of water.
"I'm so European." Gisela's response to not needing it.
"So I need to post things on yelp so you'll pay attention to me..." Mike's conclusion.
"Kimi, are we in church?" Jess, on song on her playlist during her bday party.
"It's from Brother Where Art Thou." Mers' response, thinking that made a difference. ;-)
"Theres's a lot of country in this mix." Eric
"It's Kimi's." Me, on my country music loving friend.
"Your manju is a hit! Even the girl from Texas likes it! How often does that happen?" Mers, to Eric.
"I went to the Oakland DMV. Ghetto fabulous." Sara
"There were quotes from many people." Mike on people liking my spreads I made for the bbq.
"I'm so excited. If I close my eyes I'm back on Peter Island." Mike with a Painkiller drink at Forbidden Island.
"If you wait, they'll be none left." DJ, on me trying his drink.
"We'll come to you." Hope, on cheersing with me having the biggest cocktail glass.
"You have more pain I see." Gisela, on Mike's 3 strength vs her 1 strength painkiller drink.
"Omigod I've always wanted to be a triplet. That's awesome." Kimi, meeting a twin whose bday was the same day as hers.
"I'm an eating being." Me, hungry again. "I know. I'll support you in anything you want." DJ, on what to get me to eat.
"Recent developments: we've been throwing around the 'L' word. Before it was just me." James' relationship life update.
"Cool. We can solve all the world's problems." John, on setting up a walk.
"That makes me happy in a nostalgic way." Mike D, on Lucky grocery store coming back.
"They make good wines, but they can't fight worth crap." Mike D, on France.
"What's next on deck?" Yed, asking which wine we should decant next at his birthday gathering.
"If I could go back to those days I'd b happy." Yed, reminiscing about younger times.
"Facebook is the Myspace for older people." Mike D
"The homeowner's playing the guitar right now." Mark, to person at door during Yed's Rock Band playing birthday party.
"Medium is no problem. minus the wine." Mike D, on his Rock Band level.
"It's been 20 years. If you're not used to me yet, that's a problem." Mike D, to me, after one of his lude comments.
"You need a pole to hide behind." Me and Mark, to Stoph playing bass guitar in Rock Band.
"Amtrak needs to add a checkbox to their search page that says: 'Don't insult me by suggesting anything that involves a bus.'" Eric
"It actually ended at 11pm, but there was a bunch of us who still wanted to party. The art gallery let us use their basement as the 'vip lounge' (what we liked to call it)." Steph, on her spontaneous post-partying after a charity event.
"What did you guys do on your trip?" Me
"Went to hana, luau, snorkeled, beach. Normal Hawaii stuff." Leslie E.
"9+ hours of partying. Bring on the red bull. I'll remember to pack a spare liver." Taylor, about Mike's bday party starting at 3:30pm.
"Eve this is amazing." Deanne, on just looking at Mara's peanut butter chocolate torte.
"I didn't make it--I just make the friends." Me
"wow." Rick, on the torte.
"What? Is it rich?" Me
"Is there a word for richer than rich?" Rick
"Now it's gonna be hard for me to go back to eating my salad from lunch." Deanne post-dessert.
"We share the same food brain in this instance." Mike, on us being excited about watching a calzone being made on a Food Network show.
"Few people get as excited about things as you do." Mike
"Are you getting up now or are you still sleeping?" Me
"I'm in my in between phase right now." Mike
"I do Coke by choice now since you've worked me over all these years." David, about his soda.
"You could like on that street!" David, about downtown Pescadero.
"I'm not going back to Stockton, that's all I know." David
"Did you play catch already?" Hope, before the softball game.
"Do you think reading me whining is better than hearing me whining? We can put that to the test..." Rodd, to Leslie E.
"He looks nice. People with ponytails are usually easy going." Payless, about my boss Rick.
"What if I put on a hockey mask and chase you around with a chainsaw? You have no choice to run--you stop and you're dead." Payless Eric, on me maybe trying to start to run.
"I *heart* eating." Karen Chen
"Do you drink soju?" Me
"I drink anything that might get me drunk." Payless Eric
"A lot of parties and a little later in life people feel better about paying you more money." Payless, about getting an MBA. He just graduated. 8-)
"I raked up two quotes today." Payless
"Even more. I was low on material--that's why we had to lunch." Me, joking.
"You are much better at it than me and put way more effort than I do. I'm an half asser eve. You're the shark and I am one of those floating feeder fish that hangs on." Nicki, on party planning.
"I'll travel for seafood pancakes." Helen, on driving to lunch with us even though she works a bit farther away.
"I made more lunch friends tonight!" Me
"Congrats cause you're a friend collector and you collected more." DJ
"I've discovered it's easiest to make friends when you're not trying." Me
"It reminded me of Chick-fil-A but I don't know how much of that was in my head. It was decent. I don't know if I'd crave it, but I'd get it again. I'm lookin forward to tryin it on a biscuit." Part of DJ's monologue about the new southern chicken sandwich at McDonald's.
"How is your oven, your meatballs, you?" Cute Flor, catching up after her trip
"I'm between super-excited and nervous breakdown." Hope, on New Zealand.
"I wanted to take one forever. Baking is good, but I gotta eat." Flor, on a cooking class.
"Gimme some food! I need a donut." Dice, on IM
"What kind?" Me
"Hmmm. Chocolate glazed."
"How's life?" Dice
"Chocolate glazed. How's that for an answer?" Me
"Random and thought provoking. Very eve-ish." Dice
"Sickliness gone out of the dice household?" Me
"Yes! Banished like a Dodger fan in SF." Dice
"Can you look up a phone # for me?" Dice
"Sure." Me, giving him his answer.
"Sweet. You're better than google 411." Dice
"What food is going on tonight?" Nicki
"New trendy brazilian steak place in pa = all you can eat steak on swords." Me
"Steak on swords sounds awesome!!!! Brazilian... makes me feel like I need a wax." Nicki
"I hope I likey. Me and beef have a confusing relationship." Flor, on Vietnamese 7 course beef night we have a date for. ;-)
"I like honeydew, he likes cantaloupe." Me, about Mike and I's melon preferences.
"I could be your lovechild then cause I like both." Nick
"I feel like I'm walkin around with a food baby right now." Nick, post dinner.
"When the linguica guy was coming around I was thinking, can you just slide that in my mouth?" Mike, at meat on a skewer restaurant Pampas.
"If I had a nice little relax period I think I could go again." Nicole, after our all you can eat meat dinner.
"Maybe I'm too full. I dont need more." Me, about having a glass of wine after dinner.
"But wine helps you digest." Mike
"You just wanna get me all loose!" Me
"No, I just want to drink more. I have selfish reasons, just not the one you think." Mike
"The hair on my arms is standing up its so good... Let's see if it happens again. That was like a good drug." Matt eating a lobster corn dog paired with sparkling wine at our pre-concert dinner at Arcadia in San Jose.
"Humanization of inanimate objects: Priceless." Mary T's compliment of my Pampas review.
"I'm impressed Eve. Eating here AND going for 7 courses of beef." Randy T.'s compliment of my Pampas review, before trying the Vietnamese beef place in a few days.
"Oh no it looks good but it might be bad so you try it first." Dad, to Mom, at brunch.
"The omelet man was nice." Me, on the disastrous mother's day brunch at Three Degrees.
"We're not here to eat the man." Dad
"At least my mom isn't as rejected as this brunch." Me, about a disasterous time at Three Degrees.
"I don't know how to stop. I only stop when I can't breathe anymore." My Brazilian friend in cooking class, about all you can eat places.
"Do you have a cliff notes version of your reviews?" Spence, about my long yelp reviews.
"You're extreme." Spence, on me having over 200 yelp reviews since the middle of January.
"That cream puff place is not to be ignored." Malty , at the news of Yogurtland taking up the Asian snack population.
"I like that I am quoted in your web page. You pick the funniest things that make me feel... SPECIAL and quirky." Flor
"I think what I need to do is start going up there every month and just ask them what is selling out and buy a case or at least a few bottles. " Yed, on Ridge wine.
"Yeah, that'll get you to slow down ." Me
"Yeah I know. But it is all in the name of future enjoyment. Especially when you can't get the wine when it is sold out." Yed's wine buying justification.
"It's SO hot out! I am eating yogurt soup." Mara, about her frozen yogurt after walking 15 minutes with it.
"Where we going?" Rick J., about happy hour.
"It's only us 3." Me, a bit bummed no one else was around.
"It only takes two to make a party!" Positive Rick J.
"Look at us: cocktails and lunch in one week!" Aaron, about our work fun.
"We would've had to take you out in a stretcher." Rick J., on some crazy food experience in Frankfurt.
"Nice review. The name should be changed to 'Minus one Degree'!! Dad, on my negative Three Degrees review.
"Well, I look at it this way: that is probably 2 bottles of wine I can buy now." Yed, on Avril concert being canceled.
"My 2.25 year old nephew. He rocks." Single T, sending me a photo.
"One breezy morning from deck. Gonna get a keg for the party I think. And a hammock." Single T
"You are in serious yelp land." Tod
"If we were a straight couple, we'd probably have teenagers." Matt, about his 16 year anniversary.
"I'm not a looker but I ain't no dirt off a shoe either." Flor
"Don't get me wrong--I'm from a tropical country--but I enjoy the heat when I'm in a swimsuit by the water." Flor
"I have that hat. Is it a girl's hat? From Target?" Mara, to Mikey U.
"Yeah, I think so." Mikey U.
"That's cool." Mara
"If you want to yelp her, Mara's Baking Bites. I pimp her out for parties." Flor, on Mara and her famous little cupcakes.
"The smog looks very beautiful." Mara, after Flor informed us the cool color in the sky was smog related a la Debbie Downer.
"Say hi to Mike who I haven't met yet!" Flor, to me.
"When you have a list, it's a chore. When you don't, you just get to look around." Dad, on grocery shopping.
"You coming in?" Ma, to Dad, in the car before grocery shopping.
"Yes. What do you think: I'm gonna roast in here while you da dee da?" Dad
"Today's a good day to walk inside Frys." Dad, on a super hot day.
"Reunion weekend has started. I will let you know if I do anything dumb!!" Funny Steph, about her upcoming college reunion.
"U can help me take them down from the inside." Eric, to Erica, about Ticketmaster.
"That place Fern took us to in Miami... I dream about that sandwich." Mike, a big Cuban food plan.
"It's a steak fried with ham and tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese on top." Victor, describing a dish.
"You had me at steak." Eric
"This poor little croquette needs to be put out of its misery." Mike, eating the last one.
"I'm so sad that I'm full." Erica, with food left at a good Cuban dinner.
"I'm really good at trivia. My brain is full of useless crap. I'm a walkin IMDB." Erica
"I want to win the world series of pop culture--that's my goal in life." Erica
"I'm so full." Erica, taking another bite then covering up plate with a napkin to stop herself.
"I went in and it was like steel cage death match." Eric, trapping flies in bathroom.
"That was fun, huh?" Me, after dinner with our friends.
"Yeah I like cuban food--it's real good." Mike
"It's cool cause you know so many places. You're a true foodie if I've ever met one." New friend Debbie.
"I could have three more plates of that and call it a day." DJ, really liking his beef carpaccio at Martini House.
"I hope our hotel doesn't have roaches in it." Me, about a cheap hotel we booked.
"It was a vacation spot for people in the 70s." Mike's reasoning for it being ok.
"My head hurts. I don't know how I'm gonna wine taste." Me, during Rutherford Passport weekend in Napa
"We'll struggle through." Mike
"I intentionally try to bug everyone. It's fun--it's part of my life." Dad
"I'm very glad David C won. At least America is not totally stupid." Mike about American Idol
"I could live at Culvers." Mike, about a Wisconsin fast food restaurant.
"I'm pluto. Ahhh back when pluto was a planet, I remember those days. " Laurie
"Darn it!" My sis' email subject with no text in the email.
"What?" My response
"Cook." Her reply. Guess she was an Archuletta fan.
"He sleeps during the normal part and wakes up during the commercials." Mike, about Yed being tired while watching TV with us.
"Oh I'm so garlicy. Do you want one?" Me, having a mint after garlic knots at Slice of NY.
"No thanks. I'd like to savor a bit longer." Mike
"I like you . I decided again and again." Flor
"What tipped or re-tipped the scales?" Me
"It's when you are cute and you put a smile on my face, that's when. And you do it via your reviews." Flor
"Watchin the game reading wine spectator." Yed's response to what he was doing.
"That's a lot of frosting." Me, on cupcakes.
"I can handle it." Hope
"I went to this trendy club in the city and realized I'm not so hip." Hope
"Another day, another win." Rodd, on the way to his softball game.
"Who invented digital cameras anyway?" Mike, looking at funny pics of himself from his last bday party.
"I didn't know he could do that. We've been playing softball together for years and he's never done that." Leslie, about hub Toddler.
"I don't see why we couldn't come to at least part of it. I mean we have to drink." Matt D, about Mike's upcoming bday party.
"Do you IM?" Vendor, to me on a call.
"Does she?? Is the sky blue?" Rick's answer
"Tell him to get the non aluminum so you can use it for burglars too." Dad, about Mike's choice of bat for his birthday.
"Can you get Jason Castro's autograph for my golf hat?" Dad , on me going to the American Idol concert.
"It's only half an hour in and we have another hour in a half." Yed, while watching the Lost finale.
"Live tv sucks." DJ
"I can't wait til I'm not full anymore." DJ, post a large dinner.
"Do you want to know how busy we are? We both didn't remember our wedding anniversary." Eric
"No humping a car this year, Mike." Nick, at the start of Mike's bday party
"You weren't even there!" Mike
"He screwed up my burger. There were no mushrooms and it was a mushroom burger!" Nicole , at the Old Pro.
"I'm gonna get quoted. Yeay!" Nicole
"Totally yummy when it hits your lips." Payless, about Jaegar.
"More cow bell!" Payless during a honkey song playing in downtown Sunnyvale.

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