Top Ten entries, in no particular order. Please add, vote, scratch your head ….
- You don’t even have to have a line to be a bad actor. (Mike, speaking of the skittish bit players.)
- This Indignation Meeting is hereby called to order. (We learned that when people felt irked in the 1800s, they got together and whined. We intend to revive the tradition.)
- The Johnbon. (Our new Weekend celebrity couple.)
- I feel like I’ve been put in a bowl. (Chris Hage through FaceTime. He was right. But oh what a fancy Vrooman bowl he ended up in.)
- It’s rude to do email at the table. (Bonnie to Fran, after we all encouraged her to take out her phone to help her figure out various functions.)
- …. since.” (DD noticed an open quote missing on the Lincoln plaque at Audio Tour 7 site, near the parking garage. It was theorized that the close quote was in fact a size reference, possibly six inches. Hopefully not related to a part of Lincoln.)
- And when I first opened the bed and breakfast, I realized people would be walking right into my area. So I built a wall. (We got a tour from Mary Ann of the Burr House, our earlier haunt, and learned explicitly what she thinks of pestering people like us. From Bryan)
- Fran: Anyone can use Yelp; you don’t have to pay? Bryan: Don’t worry I’ll get in you in for five dollars. (The beginning of the running $5 joke. From Mike.)
- Nothing ever works right, but sometimes it works better. (Mindless/sublime observation of YOS on modern technology. From Mike.)
- And the embalming surgeon might also sign up the subject for a trial New Yorker subscription and then observe carefully to see whether he ultimately renews or cancels. (The Civil War undertaking demonstration offered many, many tests to confirm demise. Others we wondered about: Shave and a haircut, start a knock-knock joke, take the subject to a black-tie concert and watch his reaction … )
- There are no double meanings. Only meanings. (YOS lamenting the dull directness of the new Match Game questions. From Mike.)
- That’s what we need. More Shakespeare. (Bonnie’s observation, possibly meant ironically. From Mike.)
- You put your hair away, and we’ll take the cheese out. (YOS with the annual cheese conveyance quote. Deb still had her Ellie Mae costume on. From DD.)
- Now is the time to get in on the third floor of that opportunity. (Bryan, on the vacation home boom in La Salle County. From DD.)
- We put the F U in “fun.” (Proposed slogan of Marseilles Fun Days, which was cancelled before we arrived.)