"Speaking of things that start with the letter 'B'..."
  "That's the most stupid segue...no wait, the hoverboard
   is the stupidest Segway..."
        -- Megan leads and Judson follows on the digression parade 
           (December 2015).

> > She wanted you to parboil the sprouts for *ten *minutes.
> > What is this, 1970s England?
>
> Yeah, boil everything until it surrenders--surrenders all flavor,
> vitamins (since it's a British cooking style, it'd be pronounced
> in the British way), color (OK, colour), and, uh, textoure.

Oh, youou.

        -- Alice and Frank converse (counverse?) about British
           cooking and spelling (January 2016).

"I'm used to panicking, so this is OK."
        -- A co-worker is oddly comfortable about giving a demo (January 2016).

"This is the thing I carried the pot over in."
	-- Overheard at a party as someone handed his wife a towel that
           wrapped the pot that held hot baked beans.  For a moment I was 
           confused, thinking it was a very different type of party 
           (January 2016).

Had an owner come in complaining that the wound on the cat's back wasn't 
healing after three months of rubbing sea salt on it.

I think the best part was me saying, "You know there's an expression.  
Rubbing salt in a wound...it's not a good thing."
        -- Sue describes a typical day at the office (January 2016).

"And once again, dear, I apologize for ever doubting your knowledge
of porn stars and chewing tobacco."  
        -- If he said it once, he's said it 1000 times...Bez doubted 
           Shoshe's wisdom at trivia (January 2016).

[Frank shares a typo (literally) he made: "Gtk.PositionTypoe.Top".]

"Okay, but why are you making a graphical interface?  That is concerning."
        -- Dianne properly inferred what Frank was working on from that 
           one variable and was, properly, concerned (March 2016).

"I don't get it."
  "It's one of those 'awake people' jokes."
        -- Someone was dozing at the D&D table (March 2016).

"Lisa Frank is sort of like mind diabetes."  -- Bez (March 2016).


> I de-Dell'ed SecureWorks, and Doctor'ed Tim and Alex. 

You always did like to play doctor, Frank.
        -- Frank edited reviewer attributions for proceedings and
           Matthew has nice punchline (May 2016).


I swear to God, my atheism was strengthened even beyond where it was after
this.
        -- a life and death event strengthens Alice's non-belief (May 2016).

Did you hear about Gandalf's new job as a security guard at the
convent?

"Nun shall pass."
        -- Tom's joke (June 2016).

"Milo, stick your head in the laser path and you ears will light up."
        -- Tania's entry for (last place as) Mother of the Year (June 2016).

...who said, "It's a good thing I'm already naked!" when I told her she 
should be careful about getting paint on her clothes. I responded with 
"I hope that this is not the only occasion in your life where you get 
to say that."
        -- Alice's entry for (last place as) Mother of the Year (July 2016).

"Here, let me help you.  I'll answer the next four questions of Frank
for you: no, no, no, and NO."
        -- Daniel saves Timothy the effort...he was correct (October 2016).

"I would say Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austin's Mein Kampf."
        -- Bob Proehl during his last time hosting trivia (October 2016).

"I could have spayed anything."  -- A veterinarian assessment of how
sober she was on a Saturday night, after 1 drink (October 2016).

...we all just moaned about the election, but our long national nightmare 
will soon be over -- to be immediately followed by a longer one.
        -- David G. deftly summarizes the 2016 US Election (November 2016).

I had this weird dream about about cannibalist waffles, wandering about a
haunted mansion boosting our sanity by going to church.
        -- Jeff Hartline sort of recalls a game of Betrayal at the House 
           on the Hill played as part of Katie's birthday (December 2016).

"You get very nice when you get angry."
        -- Julie knows me surprisingly well (December 2017).