Expressions and Quotes

I couldn't go without recounting some of the more humorous or interesting sayings I came by today.

First, a classic. "Riding the short school bus" (and variants thereof). Simply put, being special. And not necessarily the good kind of special. Less critical, and more funny.

Next, a curious one, might rely on context, but I found it rather pleasing. "I thought the pope was supposed to give miracles, not migranes." Must just be the funny consonance, or my personal anti-organized-religion stance. Literally, this was just an attack against another player in a game who was named 'Holy Pope' or something like that, who was at the same time being particularly annoying. The real pope, although uncapable of performing miracles, can do quite a good job at doling out migranes, methinks.

Lastly, I saw one written. Sophomoric maybe, but it made me chuckle. I was sealing envelopes (see the previous post), and I opened an envelope full of stickers I was going to use as seals. There was a little handwritten quip on a sticky note. It said, "20 ass. stickers" ... so I'm tired, and when I read it to myself... I'm such a loser, nevermind.

(Twenty ass stickers, hahaha.)

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The imagery such a simple thing can bring to mind; language is marvelous, isn't it?