I went to the rewards ceremony today, and they gave me $50 bucks. bahah :P The first place winners were REALLY good, though. They totally deserved it. ;)
Anywayz, other than that nothing much else is happening. Well, actually a family friend from NY is coming down on Tuesday for about a week, and then leaving to Amish Camp with Luke next Monday. Anddd I'm getting braces Thursday. AND I'm playing a duet with Anna (again DX haha jk ;) next Saturday cuz Mrs. Kitchen wanted us to play somehwere. I still don't know the whole deal. :s
So yeah, actually a whole lot is happening... So nvmnd. :D
I've been reading this awesomee book called To Say Nothing of the Dog, and I have a few quotes I found kinda funny. :P They may not be funny to you, though, unless you've read the book and have them in context... haha. Anyway, here's a few:
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" 'Dark brown is the river,' " I quoted, " ' golden is the sand,' " and then hoped that had been written before 1888.
" 'It flows along forever, with trees on either hand,' " Terence said, so apparently it had.
"Although actually it doesn't," Terence said. "After this next bit it's mostly all fields till Iffley. It doesn't flow along forever, either, of course, only as far as London. That's the thing about poetry, it's scarcely ever accurate. Take the Lady of Shalott. 'She loosed the chain and down she lay; The broad stream bore her far away.' She lies down in the boat and goes floating down to Camelot, which couldn't possibly happen. I mean, one can't steer lying down, can one? She'd have ended up stuck in the reeds a quarter of a mile out. I mean, Cyril and I always have trouble keeping the boat headed in a straight line, and we're not lying down in the bottom of the boat where one can't see anything, are we?"
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"How many fingers am I holding up?"
Slowness in Answering or not, this question required some thought. Two was the most likely number, being easily confused with both three and one, but she might have chosen five to confuse me, and if that was the case, should I answer four, since the thumb isn't techincally a finger? Or might she be holding her hand behind her back?
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"Give me a hand!" I called to the new recruit. He was squatting next to Mr. Spivens, watching him burrow into the tunnel. "Over here!" I shouted, gesturing to him.
Neither of them paid any attention. Mr. Spivens had nearly disappeared into the tunnel, and the new recruit was fiddling with his pocket torch again.
"Hullo!" I shouted, "Over here!" and several things happened at once. Mr. Spivens reappeared, the new recruit reared back and fell over, the pocket torch came on, its beam sweeping the sky like one of the searchlights, and a long dark animal shot out of the tunnel and across the top of the rubble. A cat. Mr. Spivens took off after it, barking wildly.
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...Mr. Dunworthy yelled, "That is no excuse. Why didn't you simply pull the cab out of the water and leave it on the bank? Why did you have to carry it into the net with you?"
Cab-toting seemed even less likely than rat-pinching, and neither one seemed in need of rescue from a watery grave. Rats especially. They were always swimming away from sinking ships, weren't they? And had they had taxis in the Nineteenth Century? Horse-draw hansom cabs, but they were too heavy to carry even if they would fit into the net.
In books and vids, those being eavesdropped upon always thoughtfully explain what they are talking about for the edification of the eavesdropper. The eavesdroppee says, "Of course, as you all know, the cab to which I refer is Sherlock Holmes's hansom cab which had been accidentally driven off a bridge during a heavy fog while following the Hound of the Baskervilles, and which I found it necessary to steal for the following reasons," at which point said theft is fully explained to the person crouched behind the door. Sometimes a floor plan or map is thoughtfully provided next to the frontispiece.
No such consideration is given the croucher in real life. Instead of outlining the situation, the calamity said, "Because bane came back to make sure," which only confused the issue further.
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