Random quotes and also pictures of a fridge

[raven]

Today has actually been better than expected, even though I have to get up at stupid o'clock in the morning to avoid paying eight pounds in fines to the Social Science Library - yay - but I am not going to write about it. I will just post some out of context quotes and then some pictures of our refrigerator.

(So, we were making our merry way down the High Street)

Me: Is that a parsnip in a telephone box?
chiasmata: .... yes.

(and equally merrily along Christ Church Meadow)

Me: Is that a gigantic dead fish?
chiasmata: ...yes.


(Claire at dinner time, holding a pepper)

Claire: This is the best pepper ever. Look at the shape of it, look at the stalk! This is the epitome of pepper! All other peppers are derived from this!
Me: Why do we keep finding Platonic ideals in our kitchen?
Maria: You guys? Are very weird. Would anyone like some cucumber jam?


(after depressing evening not spent at the House of Joy avec jacinthsong et all, but in the bloody library reading about bloody socialism for bloody essay crisis, I am trudging down St Aldate's with my intrepid flatmates)

G&D's Guy: Can I help you?
Me: (holding up a half-eaten cookie monster, with two scoops of ice-cream between two cookies): Yeah, er, my incompetent friend over there...
Ben: Hi!
Me: ...would like to know if we could get this wrapped up.
G&D's Guy: Er. Okay.

(five minutes later, he is holding big plate of gloop)

Big Plate Of Gloop: Gloop.
G&D's Guy: Um, it collapsed.

(pause)

Me: You thought I said warm it up, didn't you?

And, because I am just that grown up, I spent many hours last night on the floor of the kitchen with Maria writing poetry on the fridge:







I am baffled by how much sense some of this makes. I do wish magnetic poetry was recognised artistic medium.

And finally, soon after we got back from G&D's:

Claire: I was out by Christ Church Meadow today, and I saw the weirdest thing...
Me: It was a dead fish, wasn't it?
Claire: ...yeah.

To bed, because this entry has probably been more self-consciously idiotic than usual, but I do feel I have to write this stuff down because it does persist in continuing to happen to me.

Comments

[elyim.livejournal.com]

eat raw eggs please
no stop

That's my favourite.

Also:

it is no use
I have fluff on my produce

Because that one sort of rhymes.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

There's meant to be "alas" at the beginning of that one. "Alas, I have fluff on my produce" has been quite the conversation-starter.

[chiasmata]

I think it was a carp. Google is my friend.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*laughs* It looked so doleful, now I think back. Poor dead carp.

[amchau.livejournal.com]

"enormous sausage size"!?!

I like the one in the top left hand corner, about sleep. And "we lust true friendship".

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I didn't write that one! *g*

And that top one, Maria wrote to get me to go to bed. It worked. She's very good at being a medical student. :)

[tmpe5t.livejournal.com]

See, this is why i stalk read your LJ- (Well, that and the hope of occasional 'and then all my clothes fell off!' stories involving Rachael Weisz and Bill Piper)...

Your life is SO different to mine! Well done with that as well, that probably bodes well for your future... :_D

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*laughs* My life is certainly, er, unique. I'm glad you like.

[pinkishmew.livejournal.com]

Claire: This is the best pepper ever. Look at the shape of it, look at the stalk! This is the epitome of pepper! All other peppers are derived from this!
Me: Why do we keep finding Platonic ideals in our kitchen?
Maria: You guys? Are very weird. Would anyone like some cucumber jam?

[cackles] Oh, how I wish I were in a place where I could mention Platonic ideals and people would understand what I was talking about. I apparently missed a class last week where the concept that "bovine" and "cow" were in some way related was completely alien to my classmates.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*laughs* That's probably my favourite thing about this place. You could never have conversations like that at school.

[pinkishmew.livejournal.com]

[whines] I should have gone to Oxford...

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Heee! I'd be all for that! *g*

[leiascully.livejournal.com]

I once wrote a really good magnetic poem with a combination of the Shakespeare and college sets, but I can't remember where I wrote it down, so all I've got now is the line "perchance vow farewell to vile discontent and vulgar melancholy".

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Heee! Fab! I thought about supplementing hours, but I can't handle the Shakespeare version. Much too erudite!

[schlagen.livejournal.com]

Aww! You got the nice person's version of the magnetic poetry! I have the erotic one.

I think we should attempt to introduce magnetic poetry into the art world, and have it become accepted, for it does take some degree of talent to move the words around..

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

We seem to manage being rude without the help of extra words! *g* And yeah, it does take talent and usually cooperative effort. Totally with you on that one. :)

[clareyperson.livejournal.com]

Hey, we inherited some words from the previous tenants of the house. We have some amusing ones including 'private party in your pants dance drop the beat'. We didn't get very many so there were limited options, but I quite like that one...