In bureaucracy:

PMM: Dude. Monkey never gets old. You can shock it, spank it, puzzle it, bar it, see it, do it--monkey is the monkey wrench of the funny.

Shawn: Case in point. From the front page of www.nytimes.com.

According to advisers and court records, Michael Jackson's wealth is being consumed by lawsuits and an appetite for monkeys, Ferris wheels and surgery.

Regardless of my innate recoil at that man's name, this is still a funny fucking subhead.

Matt the Bruins fan: I think it's all money well-spent, in case he has to have his brain transplanted into Bubbles' body and run off to join a travelling carnival in order to escape the Law.

In Bitches:

Sean:

It never ceases to amaze me the number of people having problems in their relationships who think that getting married/having a kid/having another kid will somehow help, and not exacerbate the problems.

Gud:

Ah, the let's-use-this-gasoline-to-put-out-the-fire school of thought.

[For Cubs fans this is also known as let's-go-to-the-bullpen school of thought]

(DX, I think that was Sean, not me. I said something similar, and first, I might add, but I went unnoticed. Insert that saying about the guy who's never whatevered in his own something or other.)

(You did not go unnoticed. I just thought Sean was agreeing with you in a particularly vehemently head-bobbing sort of way.)

ita in Natter:

As I was climbing out of sleep this morning, I found myself wondering what Native Americans called today. "You're Welcome Day"? "No, Thank You Day"? Dunno.

Natter:

Shawn: I'm still trying to figure out whether I'd go to a party if I were there. Would I be all, "man, she's all played out" or "man, she's a firecracker when you getter drunk & shit. man."

I better nap this question out. It tests my existential faculties.

My adored erika in Bitches, after Cashmere's report on getting to sing karaoke with Andy Hallett:

What's he look like, when he's not, you know, green?

What's he look like, when he's not, you know, green?

This just brought up a question - has Lorne ever sung "It's not easy being green"?

Bwah!(Mr. Hallett's very cute.)

Natter DCJ:

I worked a Pun Farm once. I was too sheep to stay long. My Baaad. I'm kinda cowed by the udder pig I made of my self. Bacon those days I was egged on butter never would udder a word of manure miss at being a farmhand.