B. Rottman is fantastic:

[themeletor]

And people wonder why economics makes me giggly...

Today:
-He warned us about the (unlikely) threat of "Banks Gone Wild" -- you know, giving loans to ... ant farms ... and the like.
-In a massive mixed mauled metaphor, he lectured us on the importance of having "a maestro at the helm" ... otherwise our economy would... sink? get off tempo? perform poorly-sung shanties? (OH THE HORROR! Hide the women and children!)

Classics (Now with 70% more inadvertent racism!):
-In reference to a comment on beaded purses, "I saw a guy beating an octopus once... It was in Greece. I think he was getting the ink out... because we had it for dinner that night. Maybe tenderizing."
-In a bout of something completely unintended and entirely inappropriate, "Israeli women need to get on the stick and start producing babies."



Also, I now have five pair of stainless steel chopsticks. My joy is effusive.

Comments

[elizile.livejournal.com]

LMFAO I LOVE THAT MAN.

I also really like that song. Heh.

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

You -wish- you were in Macro this year...

zooooooooooombiees-are-teh-seks
(Actually, I'm really listening to Sage Francis. I'm just still on a zombie kick.)

[elessil.livejournal.com]

perform poorly-sung shanties
That is the best solution for that metaphor! Although, wouldn't it be off-beat sea shanties rather than badly sung?

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

No, because off-beat sounds too cool. And I already used off-tempo. And if something's performed off-tempo, it's automatically not so much good.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't foret some other classics:

King Solomon had 200 wives and 700 concubines. He was a busy guy.

He's a few tacos short of a combination plate.

So we just imagine Alan Greenspan sitting in his bathtub thinking up numbers. Alan Grenspan in a bathtub is not something I want to think about for too long...

Gerber: What would happen if the entire world economy tanked?
Rottman: That's generally bad.

[(Anonymous)]

~Em

Sorry forgot to sign that last one. Didn't want you to get creeped out and think someone was stalking you.

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

A few tacos short of a combination plate... I love that one.

But I was saving some for later, you know. .::crosses all these off List for Later Use::.

Hehee, such fun that class.

[silly-walk.livejournal.com]

Whoo, I'm being sneaky.
The movie is Crimson Pirate, WB 1952 starring Burt Lancaster. RENT THIS BEFORE YOU BUY IT. I was mislead because I had a cold, therefore blurring my logic and my vision, and I read "Pirates mass in underwater raids" as "Pirates in mass underwear raids". I was disappointed to say that much.
POTC ripped off a lot of stuff from this movie, so I guess it's kinda neat like that. But you thought storm troopers were inept? Pish!

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

Hehee, sounds fun! I'll rent it this weekend.

Excited!!

(P.S. Sneaky little twat. Can I run back to your journal now and ID that quote? .::wiggles eyebrows::.)

[silly-walk.livejournal.com]

Heh. Don't say I didn't warn you.
(P.S. you can try but I'll beat you with a limp fish! ^_^)

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

Why do people always say that? I never do.
(Re:P.S. That would suck I think I won't)

Also. Been buggering about on your website, now have "The Sun Whose Rays" stuck in my head.

[silly-walk.livejournal.com]

I don't know ... I don't think anyone has ever complained after I warned them. Unless I didn't warn them and I end up regretting not warning them. In which case it's entirely my fault and I'll stop this rant.
YAY! My website deserves to be buggered (er...) and that song is SO PRETTY. It's terrible that it's opera because it's ruddy impossible to sing out loud. Not that I have a history of trying to sing opera in public places... *cough*

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

Dude, shut up.

Hey, you should come hang with me and we'll sing G+S in public places. And any other opera you care to go for. Heck, the emp's at Kopp's Burgers and Frozen Custard are used to it by now, as we go there after every single performance, in full stage makeup.
And of course, whenever it's me and tosca87... clearly.

[silly-walk.livejournal.com]

!!!!!!! You're in an opera troupe/company/thing?! Geeze, if I need another reason to stalk you.
There's probably a big difference between your singing and mine, because I'm absolutely terrible at hitting the right notes. Or deciding on a key.
Not that it makes any difference in the amount I sing in public, but still.

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

Um... school musicals/plays.... *g*
And no, yeah, my pitch rather sucks, no worries. tosca87, though, now that girl's a freaking prodigy. Probably why she's our Dido, come to think of it...

[silly-walk.livejournal.com]

of Dido and Aeneas fame? Rawk. Our school is tone deaf so we never get to do anything terribly fun like operas. We're stuck with broadway, which isn't that bad, but still can't hold a candle up to g+s.

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

Our middle schoolers do G+S. (.::brags::.) We in the upper school do a play, a musical, and this year an opera as well. This year's playbill was / will be Midsummer, My Fair Lady, and Dido and Aeneas.

And Purcell's probably the easiest composer even if you're people are tonedeaf. He practically hands you the notes on a silver platter-- which I think is the only reason most of our sopranos can successfully 'sightread' it. Hehee