Mothers!

Dear me, what to do with mothers!  Sometimes they shouldn't be let out, because no one knows what happens when they meet other people.  Our dear friend Anne had just had great news in regards to her son.  He had had trouble with his leg and it was unsure if there would be a need for operation or not.  The good news is that that will not be required.  And from this the discussion grew into other foot problems, and Catriona's bad leg was dragged into the discussion.  At the end of the discussion Catriona was dragged much further into the discussion than she would have liked I think with Anne making this hilarious statement.

'You and Ross should never breed!'

What can you say to that...... and she kept going. 

'Between the two of you there isn't a good leg to stand on!'

Thankfully they kept me out of this discussion or else I don't know where it would have gone.

Annoying people ... what to do

Sometimes strange and hilarious situations come up.  For instance there is a guy, we shall call him GR, in our department that has been there for what seems like forever.  It still took him a really long time to figure out who we were and I still am not quite sure if he knows.  But the story is really too long to iterate here.  The funny thing to report here though truly belongs in the quote book.

Anne is invigilating and GR along with her.  So we were innocently discussing this over lunch today and Anne remarked whether he would come over to her and ask her who she was. 

Catriona: Do you think he will come over and ask who you are! 'Are you the 'Welsh one'?'
Anne: I think I'd wet myself! (laughing hysterically)
Catriona: Oh, please, if you do, could you do it on his shoes.
Anne: I don't think I have that much self control!

After this we were all laughing hysterically. This truly made my day!

Everyone is a critic

During reading group, where we work our way through Old Irish texts we discuss the grammar.  Sometimes these discussions can get quite heated, entertaining and downright silly.

'I don't know why they do this .... but I really shouldn't be criticising their Old Irish.  It is better than mine.'

Prof. TOC on a certain grammtical problem we were working through in the Cath Almaine text.  He felt a bit sheepish criticising whey they did something that didn't make a grammatical sense, but felt it cheeky of him to disagree with those whose own language it was.  Is there any wonder why I love Old Irish.

I am not the only one

I have mentioned earlier that I tend to be a bit long winded when trying to explain things, but I am thankfully not the only one

'He doesn't flog the horse that he just killed'

Prof. TOC on clarifying how someone doesn't waste too many words explaning things

Annoyance

I actually stole this one of my friends Facebook status, it was too good to lose sight of

'I'd smack her head with the clawend of ham but I hate the sound of balloons bursting'
Claire

Remind me never to get on her nerves.

Good shoes are important

Recently I needed to pop into a shoestore in the obvious search of new shoes

Elín: I need to pop into a shoestore.  I am afraid my shoes are getting holey!'
Catriona: 'Yes, and not in a good way'

You can't get a better retort than that!

Genius

I like to drink Coke-Cola and everyone who knows me knows that

'I am a genius by nature, sponsored by Coke-Cola'
Elín

it wouldn't hurt if they would sponsor me through my PhD, I will even thank them in my thesis :)