Comments on: Catch Phrases

By: Heather (errantdreams)

Heather (errantdreams) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:52:19 +0000

Jervis—that’s perfect!

Hopefully you’ll be home soon!

By: Jervis

Jervis — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:33:49 +0000

I am in Algiers at the moment…hence no posting, few emails, and a weary outlook. Since 15 August it has been Quito, Bogota, Rome, Cairo, Tripoli, Tunis and now Algiers. I am ready to come home. But the reason I am posting is because of an EXCELLENT comment that I heard last night at dinner with some trainers who were referring to a foreign military they had once worked with. In describing something that the other folks wanted to do that was beyond belief or made no sense (like jumping out of a plane with a parachute they had never trained on), but well within expectations for their culture, the trainers had begun to say, “Well, why wouldn’t they?” This would apply in so MANY cases. The 15 orcs charge headlong into the party. “Well, why wouldn’t they?” The government has decided to increase taxes again this month. “Well, Why wouldn’t they?”

By: Cian

Cian — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:37:12 +0000

Yes indeed. That phrase gets much more (out loud) use than the equally valuable “I reject your reality and substitute my own.”

By: Lord Michael of the Beltpouch

Lord Michael of the Beltpouch — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:59:12 +0000

“well THERE’S your problem.”

Watch much MythBusters in your house do you?

By: Cian

Cian — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:41:01 +0000

Here are two more. “On the good bad scale, that’s not good | bad”. I realized this was a phrase when I heard our daughter use it. The other is “well THERE’S your problem.” usually uttered while looking at something manifestly not right.

By: Caitriona

Caitriona — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:08:33 +0000

When Wolf was making armor with Raim in Vielburgen, in reference to a misplaced (certainly not “lost” item), “It’s around here somewhere”. Still applies.

By: Lord Michael of the Beltpouch

Lord Michael of the Beltpouch — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:59:03 +0000

“And those like us…”

By: Cian

Cian — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:15:33 +0000

There is the ever-popular “Victory through overspending”. Then there are specific use phrases like “I think we need another ham” and movie phrases too numerous to list. Going back further in time there is “We are a doing household”. Borrowing from friends we had “We are not usually like this” and the translation of that back out of Latin. There is also the paniced utterance: “Don’t say that in front of Richard” whenever someone proposes, in jest, a project too large too consider.

Here’s to us…

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:28:21 +0000

One of ours is: “If you didn’t get enough to eat, it’s your own damn fault.” I think it has something to do with that 2nd ham.
Another one is: “We deal in decadence.” We all need to learn to relax when that drill is no longer lost;-)

By: Lord Michael of the Beltpouch

Lord Michael of the Beltpouch — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:55:49 +0000

“Not this week”.

And, you, my lord, can explain why I started saying that.