"It would be good to put some of the encourager on the lawn."
—Erin's in favor of fertilizing
"Move your sniffer!"
—Erin tells me what I can do
after I complain about the scent of her lip balm
"You don't want to smash it dry."
—Erin suggests we stop playing a game
"We'd like a medium thick crust gizmo."
—Dad orders a pizza
"I took too many, but I think you'll need them."
—Mom passes Dad some napkins
"You know why I didn't read this? We didn't have any milk."
—Ty (this made a lot more sense in my head)
"Would you like some home-made soup? It's almost pesticide-free."
—Mom offers me lunch.
"She canceled herself."
—Erin lets me know about the resignation of the cheerleading coach
"Once we have figured out the food situation, I'll take a look at how
we are shaping up in the camping fear area."
—Matt, organizes the camping trip
& volunteers for camp counselor
"This dinkafies the mantle."
—Bernard, in a home improvement discussion
"You're supposed to enjoy every drop."
—Liz comments on Bernard's spilling his milkshake
"I know, but I'm dropping every enjoyment."
—Bernard
"His job is to break wind for Lance."
—Dennis talks Tour de France tactics
"We've lost our home improvement virginity."
—Ginger
"Watch the spleen guy!"
—Erin warns the Colorado Avalanche
not to celebrate too hard after winning the Stanley Cup
"You'd have to be dumb as a pet rock to fall for that."
—Ty receives an email telling him he's won millions if he'll just
fly to South Africa and open an a non-resident banking account
(btw, usually these are schemes to kidnap US citizens)
"It's not really my pot holder of choice."
—Ginger decides against using rubber gloves
to remove a hot item from the oven
"If I don't go in today, they're not going to sweat horses."
—Erin, deciding she may not need to return to school for the day
"Aw, I wanted to give him the Wally cheer."
—Erin, disappointed that UP mascot Wally Pilot walked away
"You sneeze it, you eat it."
—Erin explains that our at-home salad bar
lacks a sneeze guard
"Grisly murder mystery in which cabinet-maker Lionel Smalls
must craft the door of his life."
—Bret's Beyond Baldardash answer
for the film The Secret Door
"Hey, Bret, do you swing?"
—Erin (and this better be about dancing!)
"Yesterday it was snowing literally snowballs!"
—Erin, unable to contain her hyperbolic excitement
about the winter weather
"Parenting is damage control."
—Joe, summing up my philosophy on child-rearing
"I think I have to sit next to him...in case he needs some correction."
—Mom declines our invitation
to sit next someone other than Dad
"I used to eat more when I had a girlfriend."
—Bret shares the secret of weight loss
"I'm corrupting the youth of the UK."
—Ty, explaining a late-night video game session
with Rob, a lad from Southhampton
"There is a staff meeting at this time. Staff members need to be there."
—Sprague High intercom announcement, 1985
"West Salem is like somebody sneezed and made a town."
—Officer Jim Aguilar about Salem geography
"...if you don't think you'll wear it though,
and it'll just hang in the fridge..."
—Erin helps me decide whether or not to keep a shirt
"Gloria Steinem."
—Erin hears the disco hit I Will Survive
and makes a guess at the artist
"Have I led you astray in the bed department?"
—Erin, claiming superior knowledge of bed-making
"You ate yogurt and called it God."
—Erin, in response to Ty's pantheistic statement
"We go from Holy Family to a slab of beef!"
—Erin, complaining about Louvre's Rembrandt picture placement
"I did the wedding licking."
—Matt talking, I hope, about envelopes
"Viet Cong."
—Erin's recommendation as to what I name my new PowerBook
"I think we're smack!"
—Erin, describing our location
between Eugene and Portland
"Here's some meat I thawed out. See if it's any good."
—Mom nominates me taste tester for the lunch meat
"I don't think it makes you look fat.
I think it just makes you look the way you are."
—Mom, making me feel
loads better about my sweater
"He works over at Benny Haha."
—Dad,undoubtedly thinking
of a slightly different restaurant
"Can you bring me a tortilla-type thing—
except it's made out of paper and you dab yourself with it?"
—Erin, requesting a napkin
"Like, we don't go cold turkey on the red meat."
—Erin explains our "pseudo-vegetarianism"
"Hi Matt. I was just taking off my shoes."
—Erin phones a friend and gives him the scoop
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You're beautiful."
—Sign in a Umatilla second-hand store
"You're a free range hen. I mean rooster."
—Erin, making a weird analogy about all my running
at Rancho San Antonio and the fact that
they don't charge admission to the park
"Hair looks good. You weren't planning to go out tonight, right?"
—Erin, giving me the once-over
"I asked God to help my team to victory and we still loose."
—Erin, reading a student's paper
"What was it, a spelling bee team?"
—Ty
"Different words in different languages can mean different things."
—one of Erin's students grasps an essential concept
"I lost my cracker."
—Erin
Ty: "McGwire hit number 61!"
Erin: "People?"
(Erin says she misunderstood what I said
and is fully aware of Mark McGwire's
home run record chase. Uh huh.)
"Up your moppet!"
—Erin and her new insult
"Fast and clean!"
—Erin, cheering on the San Jose Giants baseball team
"Put a jiggy in it!"
—Erin, misquoting Will Smith
"Frog on a bike! Don't wanna miss this scene!"
—Erin, encouraging us to watch The Muppet Movie
"Are you Tutti Frutti?"
—Erin
"Deli Hero."
—Ty's Alaskan restaurant order
taken by others to be a self-commentary
"Ow. I scraped myself on your decal."
—Erin
"I'm Sweaty Bernadette Fancy Pants."
—Erin
"I have a love-hate relationship with perforated edges."
—Erin
"I won't gurgle with you, but I'll do anything else."
—Bruce to Erin
"Okay, it's a 'shoes-on' kind of moment."
—Erin
"I don't have it all together like you guys."
—Randy, troublesome Chandler Apts. tenant
"It's hard to teach religion, for God's sake."
—Anya
"Due to your negligence, you are required to pay the plumber."
—Erin's letter to a tenant
Erin: "Do you know what's different about me?"
Ty: "You're pretty?"
"TCBY...This can't be yogurt."
—Ed
"It stands to reason that you are wrong."
—Erin
"I think we'll finish this tonight—unless it doesn't go well."
—Erin
"Come on flavor buddy!"
—Erin
"Isn't it 'flavor bunny'?"
—Erin
"I could be like Mad Randy!"
—Erin
"My toes are cold. I need you."
—Erin
Erin: "Who are you trying to visit?"
Visitor: "Ryan Wheeler."
Erin: "Ok."
Visitor: "We better hurry; the manager is coming..."
Erin: "I am the manager."
Visitor: "Oh, well, uh..."
Erin: "You love me!"
Ty: "Who told?"
Erin: "Your ear muff."
"This is the kind of checklist I love!"
—Erin
"Your husband is right. You do know everything."
—Cal, NW Natural Gas guy, to Erin
"I want you to get all the support you can...from me and your mother."
—Erin
"Well, the hiccups—they've stressed my body."
—Erin
"...so-and-so has a riffraff with Aunt Bob."
—Carlotta
"You know Erin, the fork doesn't satisfy."
—Bruce
"You threatened me with rummaging!"
—Ty
"Having pictures on walls kind of sets you up for living."
—Erin
"I've got your mariachi."
—Erin
"Hit the chicken! Hit the chicken!"
—Erin
"Oh, I am sane."
—Bret
"As a show of goodwill, IPM has charged you $50."
—Erin's letter to a tenant
"Hey, this is the Year of the Rat, isn't it? This is my year!"
—Erin
"Dem toes, dem toes, dem cold toes, dem fried cold toes."
—Erin
"Um, actually, he died."
—Erin, answering a phone call
