"Kids today are unruly by nature. Give them a piece of string and they'll take a ball of string."
"Mistakes are littered through history. The book always falls down."
"To quote a phrase, it might turn out to be a bit Heath Robinson."
"If the horse won't go to Mohammed."
"They're in the lap of the gods of the post office."
"For quite a while and many moons..."
Actually just finished a sentence with the phrase "question mark."
"We're going to have to have a long hard sit down."
"The cards are in their hands. Until they shuffle the pack."
Daddy: "Squozen. It's the past tense of squeezed."
Tom: "No squeezed is the past tense of squeeze."
Daddy: "Squozen is the state of the item that has been squeezed. Squozen orange juice."
Mummy: "Why does it not say freshly squozen orange juice on bottles then?"
Daddy: "Because they are fresh. When they are not fresh they are squozen."
Mummy: "You are insane."
"Long time no speak, as they say, life goes on, as they say."
"They'll sing you a good song but you'll pay the price for it."
"You lose. You snooze."
Listening to a lady complain that she doesn't like being called a lady as it is demeaning:
Mummy: "I like it. I am a lady."
Daddy: "It's a throwback to all this women's lib crap from the 80s. You can't say anything now without offending someone. I don't like being called a man. It makes me sound like a beast."
Mummy: "From now on we will call you a chap then."
"Do you know why I'm so efficient? Cos I don't chatter for hours on end about nothing."
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