My dad, who can't order things online, wanted me to get for him a book about Japanese wartime experiments on POWs. I also bought Helmet For My Pillow as a surprise to lighten things up a bit.

My dad: Do you want any Mozartkugeln [a.k.a. "Mozart balls"]? Oh, I forgot, you don't like balls.
Me: ...I don't like marzipan.

My dad: *singing* Pants on the floor, pants on the flo'....
Me: It's "pants on the ground."
My dad: Oh.

The other night when I was over for dinner, my father changed the channel to Disney.

My mother: We're going to watch something you haven't seen in a while.
Me: *starts making ridiculous guesses*
The TV: *displays the Touchstone logo* *first FOUR notes of the theme*
Me: --The Nightmare Before ChristmasParents: *surprised ( Read more... )

Rick Steves: This Catholic church was converted to a Protestant one and all the gilded decorations and statues of saints removed.
Catholic father: Because they didn't have any money.
Baptist mother: No, because we're not idolatrous.

My mother's favorite part of BoB is the German general's speech near the end of "Points":

Me [tipsy], translating: "We have pancakes for everyone."* ...All of this sounds like desserts to me. *dissolves into unserious fit of giggles*

The swimming scene at the end of "Points" was on:

My father: Did Nana ever tell you what she said when the ( Read more... )

Wow. From this post about "Mad Men," I ended up at the Oscar Wilde short story "The Birthday of the Infanta," and the Wikipedia page for the famous painting Las Meninas on which the short story was somewhat based, and from there to the Wikipedia page about the Infanta's mother, seen in the mirror at the back of the room in the painting with her ( Read more... )

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Me: This commercial freaks me out. It makes me want to have nothing to do with Arby's ever again.
My dad: God only knows what's going to happen to that sandwich.

Tight three-way conjunction of Venus, Jupiter and the crescent Moon tonight

I first read this article on Tina Fey at ohnotheydidnt and didn't notice who the author was. I imagined the author to be a creepy, pretentious old man who clings to Greek and German stereotypes and who is unhealthily interested in Fey's weight. Turns out the author is Maureen Dowd, so ( Read more... )

I just now was thinking, last night around the world basically looked like the end of Return of the Jedi, right? Hehehe. :B

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Something else I realized, around 3:30 last night: I have documented evidence that my mother's mother's father's family owned slaves, and in January, we're going to have a first lady who is descended from slaves, and ( Read more... )

I bet I'm going to get in trouble for emailing this Onion article to my mother, but it'll be worth it. :-P