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About my dog and all his many pressing and irrefutably obscure needs, expressed by lengthy silent intense stares:
"No one truly UNDERSTANDS him!"
About his mad sudden frenzies of wild hysteria:
"HE'S....GONE.....MAD"
About my young horse:
'She rules us with tolerant benevolence'
About my pony:
'People are just terrible the way they treat ponies these days'.
A relative of mine used to watch couples at wedding receptions and the like, and fancied himself a master of determining, with a moment's glance or even just a few words of a conversation, who was 'in charge' in the relationship. He was especially mocking if he thought he spotted a case in which a man was NOT 'in charge' of his 'woman'.
THEREFORE, whenever my SO or I spot someone who is very obviously overly obsessed with who is 'in charge' in a relationship, I whisper to my SO:
'He is IN CHARGE!'
Which means he is not.
If at a wedding reception or the like, I spot someone who appears to be a little bit overly frantic/cathected about the effects of Martha Stewart's show, when they get up from the table and leave us, I lean over and whisper, 'That's a good thing!'
If someone seems to LIKE Martha Stewart a little too much, the only thing I can picture is that South Park episode where she prepares that turkey....
And for all other occasions, lines from the movie 'All About Eve' always seem to fit.
"No one truly UNDERSTANDS him!"
About his mad sudden frenzies of wild hysteria:
"HE'S....GONE.....MAD"
About my young horse:
'She rules us with tolerant benevolence'
About my pony:
'People are just terrible the way they treat ponies these days'.
A relative of mine used to watch couples at wedding receptions and the like, and fancied himself a master of determining, with a moment's glance or even just a few words of a conversation, who was 'in charge' in the relationship. He was especially mocking if he thought he spotted a case in which a man was NOT 'in charge' of his 'woman'.
THEREFORE, whenever my SO or I spot someone who is very obviously overly obsessed with who is 'in charge' in a relationship, I whisper to my SO:
'He is IN CHARGE!'
Which means he is not.
If at a wedding reception or the like, I spot someone who appears to be a little bit overly frantic/cathected about the effects of Martha Stewart's show, when they get up from the table and leave us, I lean over and whisper, 'That's a good thing!'
If someone seems to LIKE Martha Stewart a little too much, the only thing I can picture is that South Park episode where she prepares that turkey....
And for all other occasions, lines from the movie 'All About Eve' always seem to fit.
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