"A whore!"
    <a look that combines baffled with "no!">
"Well, do a whore anyway!"
	-- Benn hoping Anna does requests while playing charades (January 2006).

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?    
A: To infect the other side.
	-- David Skalak (January 2006).

"It's very strange to hear my name referred to in the 3rd person
by a bear and a panther."
	-- Mowgli watches "The Jungle Book II" on TV (February 2006).

"And by the way, if a sleeping baby suddenly pops awake and smiles when
you're watching a movie, I'd recommend having a change of clothing handy..."
  "Is the change of clothes for you or the baby?"
"Let's be accurate and say:  both."
	-- Golden gives Frank hard won advice (March 2006).

[pointing to the multicolored dots on a forecast chart]
"So the green dots mean go.  <pause> 
The blue dots mean go too.   <pause>  
So do the pink dots."
	-- Stern explains how weather affects the go/no-go decision 
	   (April 2006).

"My body lacks the ability to produce matzoh-ase."
	-- Gavin has problems around Passover time (April 2006).

"The whole place is like one vortex of dog energy."
	-- Cindy describes a house with multiple dogs (April 2006).

We just shelled out for an in-ear thermometer.  As one parenting
humorist put it, "It's all pretty much a test to see whether I'm willing
to pay $50 to not have to insert things into my daughter's rectum.  And,
it turns out, yes I am."
	-- mail from Timothy (April 2006).

"Pants are always the wrong choice."
	-- Claire, not channeling Diane, but merely complaining about
           not having shorts for ultimate on a day that started out
	   cold (May 2006).

"What if the choice was between pants and death?"
  "OK.  In THAT case, maybe pants WOULD be the right choice."
	-- Frank questions Claire's previous statement (May 2006).

"If a redneck blows himself up and noboday saw it happen,
did he really exist?"
	-- Pierce in a philosophical mood (May 2006).

"Don't stick me in the stern."
  "Sigh.  That's what all women say to me."
	-- Kristen was talking about canoe seating.  Brendan wasn't (May 2006).

"Any group of greater than 100 people is, by definition, stupid."
	-- the wisdom of David Kornreich (June 2006).

"Hell is just a blink of an eye away."
	-- as well as heaven, Nicole (June 2006).

"But you killed it [ground hog] with a Prius, which is environmentally 
much sounder than killing it with, say, an SUV."
	-- Timothy tries to cheer Frank up (June 2006).

"As Homer might say, 'mmmmmmmmMMMMMMMmmmmmm  Buddha....'"
	-- Frank's repsonse to Timothy and the tale of Buddha and the Tiger
	   (June 2006).

At one with the wheel:
Glistening fat and sugar
Of my Krispy Kreme.
	-- Timothy's reply to Frank (June 2006).

"The Pope needs a chair.  I don't have to rely on furniture."
	-- Becky comments on her infallibility (June 2006).

"Frisbee is not about chivalry."
	-- Claire summarizes the Spirit of the Game (August 2006).

"For all your hemp needs."
  "Not ALL of my hemp needs, Frank."
	-- Frank points out the local hemp store to John (September 2006)

"In a race between Belial and Beelzebub I don't think there's any good to 
come out of voting for Belial, even if it is the lesser evil of the two."
	-- Deepak on Democrats and Republicans (September 2006).

"I'm writing a letter of reference for Yu."
  "I didn't ask you to write a letter of reference for me."
"No, YU asked ME for one."
	-- Julie and Frank demonstrate why interns with names that
	   sound like pronouns is fraught with problems (October 2006).

"I need to take some vitamins or suck the marrow of infants or something."
	-- Swati ponders alternatives for an energy boost (October 2006).