cream of the crop
Tyler: Did you know that if you put heavy whipping cream in a plastic container and shake it for a long time, it will turn to butter?
Jess: Churn’uff!
The ensuing pun competition produced these expressions:
- She might get creamed.
- You’re getting the butter of him.
- I hope you’re not unsalted [insulted].
- We milked it for all it was worth.
- Let’s moo-ve on to another topic.
We got home from small group awhile ago, and even though I told myself, “Jess, it’s pasture bedtime,” I had to put up this post before hitting the hay.
whisker away
Jess: How’s your beard coming in?
Pete: It’s going okay. What do you think?
Jess: It’s growing on you, not on me.
by proxy
If someone is a fool for you, are they your proxymoron?
important information
After reading a chapter from How to Read a Book, we were talking about the difference between reading for information and reading for understanding. We discussed whether the facts we quickly dig up on Wikipedia are really valuable to our lives.
Peter: I now know that Singapore is the largest port in the world. Isn’t that important?
Jess: I don’t know, but it surely has imports.
philosophy of stalking
Chris (Pete’s cousin) and his wife Kelly were telling us the story of how they met. In college, Kelly secretly stalked Chris for quite awhile before things clicked between them. She went so far as to buy philosophy books and study Descartes, in hopes of someday conversing with Chris, a philosophy major.
She may have put Descartes before the horse, but it worked!
forgery
Pete made and awesome pun while we were watching Road to Avonlea with his family. In the episode, the King family hired a stranger to work on their farm, and found out that he had been in jail for fraud. In one scene, the hired man set a trap for a mysterious chicken coop raider using a sack, a rope and a small silver bell. One of us wondered aloud, “Where did he get a bell?”
Pete called out, “He forged it!”
We all laughed, and he did a little while later.
This post falls into two of my favorite blog categories, Onomotopeter and Fropundity is another one. The former logs entertaining conversations with my husband, and the latter is a long string of puns.
ruby on rails
Our friends (the Petersens) visited recently. Peter and Ben are in similar fields of work, so they started geeking out about programming languages and a “web application framework” called Ruby on Rails.
Peter: Some web business have used the train and tracks theme as Ruby on Rails has gotten more popular, like Engine Yard and Passenger.
Jess: How about Thomas the Search Engine?
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My husband was working in the basement one night, and I came down to do some laundry or something. He jumped when he turned around and saw me unexpectedly, because…
Peter: Wow, you were quieter than Sacagawea walking on water.
rug burn
My frugally-motivated craft projects often turn quickly from fun to frustration and failure, and my poor husband has unfortunately witnessed this many times. We had recently talked about this, and a few days later were looking at living room rugs in a catalog.
“Rugs are so expensive,” I said, “Maybe I should get into rug making, and weave one myself. But that wouldn’t be good, because I’d always have a project looming.”
