helen blog » Quotes http://blog.helenyhou.com food, web, wordpress, collaborative piano, thoughts, links, etc. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:51:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Four year olds are awesome http://blog.helenyhou.com/2012/01/four-year-olds-are-awesome/ http://blog.helenyhou.com/2012/01/four-year-olds-are-awesome/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:55:01 +0000 Helen http://blog.helenyhou.com/?p=1066

“Dad, is Cameron Diaz hot?”

“Yes, Spenny, I guess she is.”

“…Helen is pretty hot, too, right?”

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You should have a time penalty for misspelling: please add 24 hours to response time for each misspelling incident.

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Diagnóstico bilingüe del “jandiman” salvadoreño que me va a arreglar el escusado: “El problema es que cuando le “floshas” al “tóile”, se hace un “lic” de agua que sale por el “beis”. Así es que hay ponerle “guacs” nueva al “flange” pa que funcione como “glu” y pegue bien el “tóile”…

Rough translation (verified by Adrian):

Bilingual diagnosis of the Salvadoran “handyman” who’s going to fix the toilet: “The problem is that when the “toilet” “flushes”, it has a “leak” of water that goes into the “base [bowl]”. The thing is I have to put new “wax” on the “flange” to function as “glue” and seal the “toilet” well.

Speaking of Salvadorans, now I want a pupusa.

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they are like little postcards
– Vivian

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i think the only thing that shocks me is when people don’t like chik fil a
- Vivian

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: black people didn’t get civil rights by wearing their pants down to their knees

And gays aren’t going to get equal treatment by chasing straight men and screaming like little girls. PULL IT TOGETHER.

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Vivian: wow that’s like filipino verb conjugation

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Website: Oh! Hi! What can I help you with today?
Me: What are your —
Website: Hang on, I’m loading the music.
Me: Really.
Website: You’ll love it. It’s “Girl from Ipanema” arranged for steel drum and keytar.
Me: No, you don’t have to —
Website: Loading…
Me: All I want is —
Website: I SAID DOT DOT DOT.

A conversation I have every month or so [venomous porridge]

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me: so i was reading some lost recap type things
and i realized that i am so not into this whole lost-ology shit

Vivian: ugh me neither

me: i mean i love lost
but i don’t know what they are talking about sometimes

Vivian: oh haha i don’t

me: it’s a good show
totally sucks you in
alias-style

Vivian: i’m more interested in shows that are heavier on the philosophical allegories
rather than just twisty turny symbolism and suspense

me: ah i guess i had never thought about lost as a religious allegory
which is apparently what people keep talking about
like here this whole time i’ve been calling a character “dude in the black sweater”
but apparently the rest of the lost world has named him esau because his nemesis is jacob
sigh

Vivian: WHATEVS
that was a great book by the way

[about 10 seconds]

me: the bible?

Vivian: HAHAHAHA
omg no

me: HAHA

Vivian: “jacob have i loved”

me: sorry i was totes confused

Vivian: i seriously LOL’d

me: hahahahahaha i did too

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