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"Oh yeah?  Well, then I'm not feeding you for a MONTH!"
  "Can it be December?  I'll be gone for most of that."
        -- Kenji doesn't miss a beat trying to negotiate Ray's threat 
           of cutting him off from free food (November 2018).

"His name is Yoshi."
        -- Jeanine "corrects" Ken when he accidentally calls
           Kenji "Match" (November 2018).

"Nope, I'm wrong.  In fact all my 'canal facts' are about the Suez Canal."
        -- But Bez DOES know many 'canal facts' (December 2018).

"Something is out of sync on our team.  I think it's me."
        -- Alan does some performance assessment in the middle of a
           game of Code Words (December 2018).

"To be fair, it's a lot easier to be a Major League Jerk if you're
a baseball player."
        -- Judson (December 2018).

"I can't help you, I can only sass you."
        -- VRon plays to her strengths (December 2018).

"You say 'Jump!' I say, 'Why!'"
        -- KTM was an elite member of the Sass Marines (December 2018).

"I wasn't talking with my mouth full."
  "You just did."
        -- Ray busts Kenji red-handed, or rather full-mouthed (January 2019).

I had to decapitate a rottweiler last week. 
        -- Not sure what's weirder, my friends or me thinking it's not
           all that unusual.  To be fair, she is a vet (January 2019).

Drugs are a hell of a drug.
        -- Sue speculates on the source of Bill Sienkiewicz's 
           vast and highly create palette of visual styles (February 2019).

"...you're mismatched..."
  "You mean Ms. Matched."
    "That's DOCTOR Matched to you!"
        -- Alan tells Lena how she outmatches most other players at
           a tournament, Frank corrects with a set, Lena cashes in
           with the spike (February 2019).

I hate traveling with people way outside of my age range.  They really make
it easy to see how much of a dick I can be. 
        -- Is that admitting or acceptance?  Moof's either at the
           first or last stage of ... um ... vacations?  (February 2019).

I am on a flight so [the] Irish the passenger next to me pulled out holy 
water to cross herself and offered me some.  I told her I was already 
going to hell.
        -- Sue has a way with words (March 2019).

On a train and listening to people talk around me.  One old lady is talking
boring shit about how she used to commute in London and would walk fast.
As a New Yorker walker I start tuning out.  Totally not listening anymore 
until my stop comes up and the woman is closing with 'and that is when the
ambulance came and took the body away.....'
        -- Sue learns appearances can be deceiving, especially with
           little old ladies in England on trains (March 2019).


Our big news is that we got chickens!
 
Ryan frowned when I said I wanted to name one Ruth Bader Ginsbird.

The other ones are going to be called Zenna Henderson and Zora Neale Hursthen.
Here are some others I'm considering for the fourth:

Meryl Peep
Amelia Egghart
Emmaline Peckhurst
Coregga Scott King
        -- I had forgotten how much I miss Alice (March 2019).

[Addendum]
They'll live in  part of the yard where they can shit to their hearts
content. I'm really worried that one of them is male.

If Zenna is a boy, we may change it to Gregory Peck.
        -- Alice is prepared to handle a change of plans, and has 
           her ducks, er chicks, in a row (April 2019).


Being popular is the best way to increase one's popularity.
        -- Frank's comment on best-seller lists but probably
           more generally applicable (April 2019).

 

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