"My socks were pleased off!"

One late night in Santa Fe, Em, talking about something that made her really happy.

"The finest salmon from the best sea!"

Early morning in Santa Fe, making fun of catfood commercials and their snobby cats. From her cozy sunken place in the air mattress, half-asleep Francey piped up with this line.

Then Jonathan said something like, "It's not from the Baltic? Take it away."

Til The Cows Do Their Thing

I can't remember what it was that I (Em) was talking about, but I was explaining how some event had taken much too long, and in the middle of this cliche I realized I couldn't remember the rest of it.

See-through mice

"This coffee tastes like one of those see-through mice drowned in it!" - Francey

This one followed a quote of mine that the huge vein that pops out on my forehead when I laugh makes me look like one of those see-through mice.

Husband Storage

I can't remember the quote, unless it was simply "Husband Storage." Remember those reading pillows with arms that fit up in that space in the basement ceiling? We were so tickled to find out those things were called husbands.

Em

"I reeeeally need to get off this ski slope."

"Macaroni"

What can I macaroni? That's all there is to macaroni.

Our Funny Mother

Francey was with Mom in TX, Em was on the phone with Mom - Em heard Francey get stung by a scorpion in the background, and immediately Mom says, "Ooo! What does it feel like?!"

oldie, from our basement days

"I make fun of my laugh and it makes me laugh for real and it sounds the same!"