Some of you may have heard these . . .

• If you can ask a question like that you can answer it

• And your point is?

• Not a deep thinker

• Unclear on the concept

• A snare and a delusion

• The days run together like two-finger poi

• Been there done that

• When in doubt, overdo

• Is that so very wrong?

• Coincidence? I don't think so

• You're giving me that look

• None for you, pieface

• Not after you’ve goobered all over it

• “Don’t know why I made that pie, ain’t nobody goan’ eat it” (quoting his grandmother; Okie accent)

• [reading in dim light] "put’ch eyes out" (ditto)

• Aren’t you in the catbird seat (his mother’s saying)

• Coulda woulda shoulda

• Alea jacta est, sat est verborum (quoting his mother, the Latin teacher)

• Vorrei e non vorrei

• Finiti la commedia

• Es mejor

• Mas o menos

• Hombron! (in admiration, regardless whether man or woman)

• L’une, l’autre

• POS

• wow-ee

• Got to be a hunderd cuz ninety-nine percent won't do (in a thick bluesman accent)

• Everything’s in a state of chassis (Sean O’Casey, Juno & the Paycock)

• Do-mi-do duds (The 5,000 Fingers of Doctor T)

• A mere bag of tells

• Oh my gollies

•  “And the rivers run down to the sea, and the sea is not full” (Ecclesiastes 1:7)

•  “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air”  (Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”)

• "Chief Iffucan of Azcan in caftan/Of tan with henna hackles, halt!" (Wallace Stevens, "Bantams in Pine-Woods")

• Goodness had nothing to do with it (this is a movie quote, but he used it when someone said "Goodness!" in the right context)

 

Don’s son Norman contributes these:

• Disgusted but not surprised (usually muttered after seeing my latest report card)

• I do have a hammer....but where?

• Jesus-H-f*cking-baldheaded-christ!

• Oh dear god!

• Can’t see? Can’t hear? Ohhh, what’s going to happen to him?

• Spavined

• Don’t forget to warsh your hands

• And the horse you rode in on!

• Well, this is a fine mess you’ve gotten us into!

 

Favorites from movies:​

• I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille

• I want you to know I really appreciate this, Mrs. Robinson.

• I don't like the looks of these waters

• I can't talk now, something big has come up.

• Of all the gin joints in Casablanca, she had to pick this one.

• No, this is your last glass of elderberry wine.

• Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night.

• Mongo love candy!

• You want I should clear the table, Blanche?

• Pay no attention to the little man behind the curtain

• Attention must be paid to such a person

• Let him win

• Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.

• Let's get into our outfits, Bruce.

• We don' got to show you no stinkin' bodges

• Cmon up to the lab, and see what's on the slab.

• Put—the candle—back!

 

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There’s a beautiful local native bleeding heart (wildflower), Dicentra formosa.

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