8.31-Dubai

"does it have anything to do with Kuala Lumpor?"

-Brian Washam when asked if he wanted to go to Ibn Batutta (ibAN- ba-TOOT-ah) with us. Ibn Batutta is a mall near our house that means "son of Battuta", and "Battuta" means "fun to say in English"

8.30-Dubai

"are you kidding, life is not bearable without those two"

-Dave Furman after the movie we were watching warned us that it contained "fantasy violence and risque humor"

8.29- Dallas

"well somebody has to and it ain't gonna be me"

-Amber encouraging me in my role on our team, after I told her that I was probably going to cry at a function we were going to.

8.28- Okalahoma

"it's just a chocolate chip with a java name to it"

-Starbucks dude after I asked him what exactly a "java chip" was.

8.27- Hills

"It's like living in New Orleans"

-Trey Hill after his washing machine blew up 25 gallons or so all over his house.

8.26- Fresno

"Then why are you wearing shoes? Asians don't wear shoes."

-a worldly wise third grader after finding out that his shodden classmate was infact asian.


thanks to brian washam for keeping a sharp ear out

8.25- Little Rock

"Well then how come she can grow all them flabby arm chubs and she cain't grow no hair!"

-an observant southern man, after finding out that Norah Furman (6 mths) was a girl.

8.24- Hill house

"I guess they find us truffles"

-Allison on why God would make pigs if not to eat them.

8.23- Dallas

"why bother, its the only way we see him anyway"

-my father in law as the wedding photographer at my brother-in-law's wedding asked me to take my sunglasses off my head for the wedding picture. Thus exposing my closely held secret that I have been sporting sunglasses as a man-headband for the past couple of years.

8.14-the car

"that would mean something, if their second best movie ever made wasn't The Mummy"

-Amber after a friend recommended the new Star Trek movie with the superlative "the best movie ever made".

8.13-Hill House

"I am against two things in this world: The Man and The Man's Systems"

-Trey Hill as we were scheming ways to essentially commit tax fraud together...we later thought better of our great ideas.

8.12-Library

"How about a shushleighlee?"
-a librarian and her ceaseless quest to maintain the quiet.


thanks to Christine W for passing along the ways of the library
love,
the quote farm

8.11-Kansas City

"Those aren't cookies buddy, they're chips"

-Wes Crawford to a 2yr old kid who was rebelling against the norms of childhood snacking by dunking his Doritos in milk.

8.10-Coppell

"you need to add the bad driver little symbol"

-Amber, as a car cut us off with the "very" clever Bono inspired "COEXIST" bumper sticker on it.

8.8-Kansas city

"Honey, it has a cow face on it. You clearly can not cut onions on it."

-Wes Crawford defending his hesitancy to cut veggies on the meat cutting board.

8.7-Kansas City

"did you just have a barbecue nap?"

-Wes Crawford asking if I enjoyed my protein induced coma that followed our outing for some famous Kansas City BBQ.

8.6-Pickavance

"They just have no sense of decorum"

Tim Pickavance on the problem with children, after his son coughed in his face.

8.5-Coppell

"that's Jesus"

-Amber setting the record straight, in response to me saying"No!, No Clifford is not a friend to us all"

8.4-dentist

"I can't guarantee you that you won't wake up in the middle of the night in screaming pain"

- The bed-side manner lacking dentist nurse chic after they accidentally had to leave the nerve of a tooth exposed after they realized that they will need to do an emergency root-canal on what they thought was a routine filling

8.3-Daskam's

"they're not like, ride a scooter fat"

-Brian Daskam unimpressed with the level of fattness of the ladies in "More to Love"

8.1- Coppell

"if you're going to dump out everything in every box you own, you're bound to find the thing your looking for"

-Amber's grasp of the obvious, upon my surprise that she found our long lost diplomas as we are slimming down everything we own to about 100lbs.