10.20- the greenhouse

"The street baller is America's answer to the ninja."

-Brian Daskam's observation of America's true martial art.


thanks to Keri for her dilligance even on a date
love,
the quote farm

10.18- New Hampshire

"I just stay in the car when driving through Vermont"

-some New Hampshire friends of Gloria Furman giving her advise on how to avoid the dangers of Vermont.

10.17- friend's house

"everything comes in CANS??!!!...how lazy must you be?"

-some international friends astonished when they went to the grocery store and saw so many baked goods, like biscuits, come in cans.

10.16- around town

1. "Now that is TOO far"
2. "They have gone TOO far"
3. "That is taking it too far"

-multiple fry-atory conservative people indignant at the perceived moral or ethical transgression when they heard that I had tried the liberally minded "fried coke" at the State Fair this weekend.

10.13- Daskam house

"I think I could eat an infinity of greens"

-Brian Daskam going to the next level by expressing himself in theoretical mathematics when it comes to how much he loves greens.

note:
for those less attuned to theoretical math than Brian I offer this explanation of how much Brian loves greens.
Taken from "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy":

"[infinity is] Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some, much bigger than that, in fact really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real 'Wow, that's big!' time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we are trying to get across here."

10.11- front desk

"I could eat tons of chocolate and crap"

-Amanda W. using a common colloquialism that inadvertently resulted in her sharing some very strange things about herself in a very public place.

10.10- DTS

"I think I should buy you all a Red Ball"

-a tragically hip DTS professor trying to find ways to help liven up his class. When the class all laughed he thought it was because they realized how "with it" he was.

Thanks to Gloria and the always humorous theologians
love,
the quote farm

10.9- starbucks

"Well thats one thing you are sure not to find if you go looking for it"

-an under-the-breath statement overheard in Starbucks as a customer saw an advertisement for coffee saying that it "pairs well with serendipity" and proceeded to ask around where the serendipity was.

10.5- office

"Where the crap is my phone?!!!"

-said while talking to Trey on my cell phone, when I realized my cell phone was not in my pocket.

10.4- lobby

"Pescados nos separamos para Dios"

-a student's new take on the "bridge illustration" while sharing the Gospel in Mexico. Turns out sin (pecados) seperates us from God, not fish (pescados).

10.3- outside of Wal-Mart

"There is something anonymous about the weather right now"

-an ominous misunderstanding by a friend who wanted to remain nameless as we walked outside of a Wal-Mart to a stormy sky.

10.2- friend's house

"I thought it was Asia for Loony Tunes"

-an unnamed friend confessing his lack of geography knowledge when I was quizzing a group of friends on North African geography.