R.O.U.S.'s and Little Women

I came to a sad realization over the past couple weeks... Not everyone knows all the lines to The Princess Bride, Little Women, and While You Were Sleeping! In fact, most people (my age, at least) have never seen any of them.
You see, when I was little those three movies were a staple around our house. My sister and I can pretty much recite all the lines to any of those. And I always assumed that everyone else loved them as much as I did. But the other day in my AP US History class, as we were discussing transcendentalism, my teacher asked if anyone had seen or read Little Women. I eagerly responded that I had and that, in fact, it was one of my favorite movies. And everyone looked at me like I was crazy! And then the other day one of my friends told me that their teacher had made them watch this really weird movie they had never heard of, The Princess Bride, in class that day. Blasphemy! It's a classic! And any time I ask someone if they've seen While You Were Sleeping, they ask...what? I was very shocked by this. You mean to tell me that not everyone fell in love with these movies at the age of like...five? And you mean to tell me that not everyone knows what an R.O.U.S. is? Or the significance of creamy mashed potatoes? It's a sad, sad world.
So I thought I'd include some of my favorite quotes...haha.
"These mashed potatoes are so creamy." "I never could make a good pot roast." "Caesar Romero was tall." "Dustin Hoffman was 5'6"". "But John Wayne wasn't cuban." "Would you want to see Dustin Hoffman save the Alamo?"
"I like mass in Latin. It's nicer when you can't hear what you're saying."
"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You kill my father, prepare to die."
"Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us togeva today. Wuv, twue wuv, will fowwow you...Do you have da wing?"
"It just so happens that your friend is only mostly dead. There's a big difference between all dead and partially dead."
"Butter! Oh, isn't butter divinity?"
"Here we come a-wassailing among the leaves to green! And here we come a-wand'ring so fair to be seen. Love and joy come to you and to you your wassail too; and God bless you and send you a happy new year and God send you a happy new year."
"Meg always makes me take the gentlemen's part at home. It's a shame you don't know the ladies' part!"
"Oh, that's Meg. That's my sister. She's completely bald in front."

My kind of 12 Days of Christmas

My brother has a cd of this group that he made me listen to yesterday. I looked them up on the internet and found this video of the song he played for me. It's so cool! It's funny but at the same time the music appreciating part of me is amazed by the complexity of the song and the talent in the group. They're called Straight No Chaser and they're from Indiana University. They have a lot of other cool stuff too but this one's my fav.

Some people are like slinkies...

...they're useless, but you can't help but smile when they tumble down the stairs.

When I read this quote on the wall of the office of a woman at the bank, I laughed because I could immediately think of a few people in my life to whom this would apply. Well, they're not really "in my life" because I work diligently to keep them out of it because they annoy me. However, if I happened to pass them and they happened to fall head first in the mud, I would laugh.

Exhibit A. To understand my point of view you would probably have to hear the conversation my best friend Chelsea and I have as we walk through the hallway at school. Everyday we have the same conversation. It goes something like..."Why are people so stupid?" "I don't know." "I really don't understand what some people are thinking." [Silence] "Excuse me!! Why do people insist on standing in the middle of the hallway?! Don't they know we're juniors?" "I don't know...stupid freshmen." "Just stand right there. No, don't move. People aren't trying to walk here. You're not in the way at all." If people were as smart as we are, we wouldn't have this problem. Lol.

Exhibit B. Besides people that choose to stand in the middle of the hallway, there are others who I would deem "slinkies". People that, I swear, open their mouths with the intention of nothing but stupid coming out. Apparently, their mother never taught them, "It is better to appear a fool than to speak and remove all doubt." And the people that do things just to get attention or just to irritate others. I don't understand. Is their own life not interesting enough that they have to annoy mine? Oh, and one more thing. People that stare and invade our conversations. Haha.

This all brings me to my answer to most questions...people are stupid.