Snatches from Time Past

Back in high school, my friends (Ruchi, Alice, Kat) and I used to make note of silly, amusing, and/or ridiculous quotes that we found in books, textbooks, speech, etc. I used to write them in very colorful arrays in my HS planners; if I find them, I should take a picture of them -- it'd probably look cooler than a massive list of random quotes. However, I still enjoy the collection that I have here: it's more legible anyway. =)

This definitely is not exhaustive: I love many parts of the Bible but typing all the quotes up in here might take an age. Nevertheless, I hope to add them as I have time. Or I could just say: take on the challenge and read the (entire) Bible! =)

through the ears and eyes
NU freshman
HS senior
HS junior
snippets

from the printing press
textbooks
novels
poems


Musings from NU freshman year

I wonder...
  • Does dead include the capacity to think java? (AJone)
  • [Holding weird-looking sticks] 'What are these called?" "... sticks?" (APapa)
  • What? You're going to teach me how to use an umbrella?
  • What, are you still living in the stone age?
  • What should I dot my "i" with?
  • Why's it raining?
    Because the sky is sad. =(
    I'll take it from a nonpoetic way: [...] the sky soaked up too much water and now needs someplace to stick it. (AJone/sc)
  • Who would win: Anakin Skywalker or Hermione Granger?
... Excuse me?
  • I. am. Albert! (Angela)
  • I found a cocoa puff in my drawer!
    You cooked a muffin in your drawer? (APapa/sc)
  • I'm magnetically attracted to curly fries. (CGuo)
  • That is one AWESOME chicken. (APapa)
  • There's a spider on my desk somewhere...
    Blow blow blow! (sc/AJone)
  • Did you just ask if buffalos have wings?
  • Is your light talking?
  • Motor... like I have cheerios in my bag.
  • Yeah, the computer never took EA2.
  • You feel an unexplainable spiritual bond to it that transcends all knowledge. (AJone)
  • Promote literacy. Buy a box of fortune cookies today. (Fortune cookie)
  • You will inherit a large sum of monkeys. (Fortune cookie)
I declare...
  • Add oil! = Jia you!
  • mmph = milimeters per hour - the speed snails dominate in. (sc/MKim)
  • The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.
  • You can't spell death w/o EA.
  • You can't spell slaughter without laughter.
  • She kicked the turtle.
  • The chipmunk scared the box.
  • The stupid animal ran under the bridge.
  • In short, things get worse.
  • I can't even remember once feeling freaked out in your car except for the very first time... I think it was before you got your license. (EWu)
  • I have to return the pan to Peter. (HPark)
  • I've always wanted to poke a fat bird sitting on a branch... like, poke him in his belly. (MKim)
  • I want to clobber a fish with a club.
  • My head is singing. (APapa)
  • I shouldn't play music. It's like a drug. (SYhee)
  • There we go. I am a genius. (Brother)
Uncategorizable
  • Aw, I'm so sweet. (AKim)
  • Drunken water, crouching hiccup. (APapa)

Musings from HS senior year

Calculus Nerdiness
  • Captain hook thms! >< X(!!
  • Calculmatator. Capacitator.
  • F has a pint of inflection.
  • Is the iceskater a cylinder?
  • Remind me why I is the integral of r^2? // b/c it bends under peer pressure from the other straight letters so it becomes deformed into an r, and since an r looks shorter, they decided to have two together.
  • To diff(erentiate) or not to diff - that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the dy/dx and ln(x) of outrageous U's or to take [integral]s against a sea of C+'s.
  • Transcendental functions: Natural logs.
English Nerdiness
  • Hamlet: yo, watsup? Ophelia: nm. missin' ya. <3 (AJone)
  • Hammer- (er + m) + mallet... letham?
  • Polemi-cow!
  • The "I" of a tiger.
  • "They have this good song. It's called 'i'... They just stand there and don't play anything for 3 minutes."
Other Nerdiness
  • aspee (n): the state of mind in which the mind ceases to function properly, resulting in inexplicable periods of blankoutedness & unproductiveness.
  • Cocaine! C17H21O4N!
  • Mecanesium!
I say!
  • Atheist = a thesis.
  • Mormon prom = prom with sleeves.
  • Once upon a time, there lived a very unfriendly pencil.
  • Sam turns into a road
  • Friendly animals rarely say a bad word.
  • A crocodile running loose in the kitchen.
  • By instinct, a spider is poisonous.
  • The fish wants to be burry.
  • Unicorns are like horses, except they're different.
  • We can sit next to each other on the platter. I'll be the appetizer to your main course.
  • The ink is smearing, smudging bludgeon.
  • You made me lose my yawn!
  • Your green is Turkish!
  • Spinach is packed with kindness and love.
  • Sarcasm is essential in defeating gravity.
  • God is plasma.
Physics Nerdiness
  • 12. There is no question 12. The number 12 was busy sponsoring Sesame Street, along with the letter z.
  • A camel is an example of the conservation of p.
  • A smartcar is like driving your shoe.
  • Ampere's|Coulomb's claw(s). Which one's sharper?
  • Angular momentum of a zip disk: Iw.
  • d(flux) = deflux.
  • Force (centrifugal) Russia!
  • Glutons! (like Newtons, but not).
  • mu! mew*Fn = Fg.
  • N-normous!
  • He asked for a Newton, and he pushed him.
  • rate of change in reality of problem.
  • The heavier puddle falls up faster and so will Nemo.
  • The rock is launched 1 s after the puddle. ... but how do you launch a puddle?
  • The problem of uv.
  • The velocity of person to the balloon, not to be confused with the velocity of peanut butter.
  • Terrified fish.
  • You are dumber than charge.
  • What the flux?
What...? Eh...
  • What are you reading? Your celery sticks?
  • 'When do I play the ice cream truck song?'
    '... do you mean Turkey in the Straw?' (WZhang/orch)
  • Go sing that to [You-know-who]
    the dark lord wasn't too keen about the singing. he almost used the Cruciatus curse on me (sc/AJone)
  • Her nose gives her hot chicken soup.
  • I'll just go and have an oil pancake now.
  • I choose to torture you for my own benefit.
  • Kaplut, kaploo, kablip: ways the internet dies.
  • When you shut up the shell.
Exclaim it to the nations! ... or not.
  • Asian flue.
  • Chorch.
  • cornstarch + water!
  • Elliptify!
  • Feesh!
  • Flemmingale.
  • Fositive Pi
  • Indulgent fists!
  • Shorp & sanshine.
  • Snowerday.
  • Throug.
  • No doy un pepino!

Musings from Junior Year

Nonsense Nerd
  • An exceptionally low interest of 2 bbq sauces per week.
  • And your PSAT score is... -4000 =).
  • Bunnies will chemically bond to haunt me forever.
  • I can make you a normal distribution!
  • I was born to find tangents.
  • Mr Murray is a spectator ion in my life.
  • [School]/[social life] = undefined
  • Swashing instrument cations form your tiedye shirt.
  • There's a gerund sitting in the chair
  • There was a piece of metal b/t me and the flame.
  • Time is a little crunchy
  • We watched the germs sprout from the soil.
  • Your light assumes that the brain will travel in a straight line.
So I thought... nonsense
  • Measuring measures! measuring measures? the measures are already measured!
  • Philip the fish was a flippant fellow who never failed to figure final fluctuations in his flying fippers.
  • Rabbits coughing up lemonade on rainy days...
  • The funeral was sad b/c somebody killed him.
  • The hermit led lives to attack settlements.
  • Whatever floats your boat... provided that your boat is not leaky.
I question...
  • If you were a z-score, what would you be?
  • What do you get when you throw an elephant down a mine shaft? Ab minor!
  • What do you yell down a mineshaft before you throw an elephant down? C# or Bb minor.
  • When is a door not a door? When it's a jar!
  • Where are you going, Mr. Birdie?
  • Care for a chocolate shoe? (RAsher)
Exclamation!
  • A chocolate this, a chocolate that... a chocolate brain!
  • Bunnies!
  • Fishies!
  • Foolish seedling disease!
  • i am lose!
  • It's like magic! It's like.. magic rub!
  • Oh no! the pi was eaten by the mole!
  • Polar eyes!
  • Punch a shark! Punch a manatee... o.O
  • Sunsets are red, the sky is blue, sunlight is polarized, and so are you!

Longer Snippets

Many of my closer friends back in HS (Alice, Mikey, Norman, Ruchi) contributed many of the HS ones from above. Some more are here, but countless others are lost among the many IM conversations -- many of them late at night, which always quintuples the amusement. I miss those days. =) & =P.

Mikey-ness

  • mikey: *chomp*
    mikey: X(
    me: ..!
    mikey: D:<
    me: don't eat me!!
    mikey: i will! X(
    me: ok! then be sure to eat me before monday morning
    mikey: X(!
    me: maybe you'll digest my bio brains
    mikey: :D
    me: even though there's not much left
    mikey: !!!!
    mikey: *excited*
    me: ew. cannibalism
    mikey: ...X(
    mikey: *cleans teeth*
  • mikekim: mew * Fn = Fg
    mikekim: mew * Fc = Fg
    me: mu..
    mikekim: MEW
    mikekim: like
    mikekim: the pokemon
    mikekim: XD
    me: sigh...!
    mikekim: *dances*
  • mikekim: bi my BUTT
    me: go pi yourself
    mikekim: yea well
    mikekim: the pi was already eaten
    mikekim: by the mole
Ruchi-ness
  • ruchi: but the paras themselves!
    ruchi: they FLOW!! [...] FLOW like WATER!!!
    ruchi: *flows down the hall* [...]
    ruchi: I'm SO hyper it's insane
    ruchi: *sends over hyperness* [...] me: some englishy brains would be nice too
    ruchi: sorry, can't spare those
    ruchi: but I'll send over a few
    ruchi: *picks out foreshadowing brains*
    ruchi: *sends foreshadowing brains to stace*
    ruchi: I don't need those anyways
    me: it sounds like we're playing go fish
    ruchi: hahaha
    ruchi: got any symbolism brains?
    me: "nope go fish!"
    ruchi: *goes fish*
    ruchi: nope, only got harry potter brains
    ruchi: your turn
    me: got any... sweaters?
    ruchi: darn, I do *gives staci 1.35 sweaters*
    ruchi: got any....errr...
    ruchi: btw, I'm suddenly feeling sleepy
    ruchi: so you've got my hyperness
    me: *sends over some ruchiness as well as an alarm clock*
    ruchi: ok, do you have any through the tunnel knowledge?
    me: *and a mauku w/a mallet*
    ruchi: oh THANK YOU!!!
  • ruchi: wait, I was sorry b/c I ripped up ur OML contest to make "notecards"
    ruchi: remember? […] so you can't get extra credit for it […]
    ruchi: i'll try to tape it back 2gether
    me: seriously?
    ruchi: i'll try […]
    ruchi: actually, I'm just taping it all back together
    ruchi: b/c I fitted the pieces together!! […]
    ruchi: OH SHOOT
    ruchi: the back says stuff about suicide...
    ruchi: i forgot to the erase the pieces!
  • Homework question, "What was the role of wilhelm I?"
    me: he was there just to be in place of a cheesecake that bismarck would've made king. however, since bismarck needed something of higher intelligence, he had to replace it w/a human.
    ruchi: i would definitely put a cheesecake on the throne. that way i could eat it. then i could say that it had an accident so i have to take over b/c they couldn't replace it w/another cheesecake b/c cheesecakes tend to have bad endings.
  • "Our eyes' insensitivity to certain colors often springs up in nature. For example, the real color of the daytime sky is violet! The reason: Air scatters more violet light than any other tint. But violet is so poorly perceived by our eyes that blue overwhelms it. Some animals do see the violet sky." (Astronomy magazine, 03/2003)

    ruchi: how awesome is that! purple sky!
    jen: it'd be like walking around in grape juice

Alice J-ness
  • me: i think i give up on physics..
    me: but then i might not get full credit..
    alicej: just scribble stuff down
    alicej: Q's and E's and r's
    me: and some U's
    me: that makes QUEER
  • alice j's away: [...]
    staci: .... O.o?? go sing that to [u-know-who]
    (well, i didn't exactly tell her to go sing to Mr. Voldemort, but... hey, if she does, i'll be more than excited to see how the dark lord would react =D)
    alice: the dark lord wasnt too keen about the singing
    alice: he almost used the cruci[at]us spell on me =(
Norman-ness
  • me: i hate peeli[ng] citrus fruits.
    norman: makes yo[ur] fingers spell good though
  • me: are you a good chopper [meant in reference to editing]?
    norman: Helicopter? no, i get motion sickness if I spin too much.
  • me: care to give some inspiration for this silly essay of mine?
    norman: rabbits coughing lemonade on rainy days during rush hour
School Frustrations
me: the 'presentation' thing
chris: is equal to the square root of retarded times the integral of gay, divided by the second derivitive of pointless.
me: yes of course.
me: but we're not in math; we are, very unfortunately, in english
chris: "the project was the quintessence of retarded; it reveled in it's pointlessness, invoking a terrible feeling of gay"
me: not figurative enough
chris: "i vaguely recall a period of time in my life in which i believed in the truth of the project; however, since the disillusionment that has been wreaked upon me in this moral wilderness, i now see it for what it truly is: a heartless, pointless and gay enterprise in which only despair and discord can be found, retarded as my sisters youngest son who sits in the corner all day singing about animal crackers. it is by the new truth that i shall live my life."
A Gap Scene for "Hamlet"
Hamlet enter[s] with flowers and stick them under [Ophelia's] nose.
[Hamlet:] here ophelia flowers
[Ophelia:] ouch hamlet not up my nose, have them back. *shoves them down his back* run along now, dear. stay away from me.
H: but i have to give you remembrances so i can torture you later on in the play
O: oh, don't tell me that! i want the surprise!! go go begone! *picks up watering can*
H: i'm sorry but i just haf to suck the fun out of everything. i just can't get over my depression. i enjoy wallowing in self-pity/loathing and draggin[g] others along with me
H: while failing to actively commit an act of revenge
H: conscience makes me too much of a coward
O: conscience indeed. i'll go science you! i'll steal that science and then you'll just have con! and then perhaps .. what?
H: just take the flowers woman [.] otherwise shakespeare will get angry with me[.] and the globe audience will boo
O: *picks up watering can & pours over his head* maybe i'll water some sense into you [...] osmosis it
H: oh, no! my hair! my costume! my too sullied flesh (still not clean)! now i'm even more depressed. it's your own fault that i deny loving you now
O: so be it! have some dirt! *throws dirt* fertilizer! *cow poop* perhaps you'll be fruitful now! *runs off*
H: oh woe be with me. that fair beauty has fertilized me. i shall haf to make it up to her by writing her a corny letter. maybe a sonnet? sonnets aplenty. shall i compare thee to a summer's day ...
H: wait thats not depressing enough
H: my mistresses breath re[e]ks, her face is ugly, her hair looks like worms. but i still love her
H: there, better[.]
H: now i can get Ophelia in trouble with Polly, and revenge will be mine
me: [...] off i go. g'night.
C'lotte: nightie
me: *ophelia calls from faraway* faretheewell *throws rotten egg*
C'lotte: *SHPLAT*
C'lotte: charlotte: ewwwwwwwwww
me: ah sorry.
C'lotte: hahaha
me: =P
C'lotte: its all good
C'lotte: i haf febreze
C'lotte: ;-)
me: cool bbye
Frustrated 9th grade poem
Don't you always hate it
When you're told to write a poem,
Or a paper, or a speech
That demands a certain length?
I deem it as quite useless
To make the students write
A certain sum of pages,
Or of lines, or of words.
After all, one person may
Take four pages
While another
Takes one page.
And in these two like speeches,
Or two papers, or two poems,
The same point is shown,
But just at different lengths.
Thus, you see that this condition,
This requirement it does make,
Some students go quite crazy
While others somewhat lazy.
So here I am to tell you
What a useless poem this is,
That I've wasted two whole hours
And one perfect piece of paper.

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