Posts Tagged ‘Quotations’

“Gotta get-get,” my nephew would chime as we all played the card game Uno. “Gotta get-get,” I’d reply. We’d keep this up for a bit before shifting to our own butchered version of the remaining lyrics to “Boom Boom Pow”: “I like that boom boom pow. Them chickens jackin’ my style. They try to copy my swagger … I’m so three thousand and eight. You so two thousand and late … I be rockin’ them beats.” Then with our best bass voices we’d turn to each other and croak: “Let the beat rock!”

 We’d be quiet for a while before one of us would start again with “Gotta get-get.” Finally, my brother grumbled, “I’d be happy if I never heard that song again.”

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You’re having a very bad day. And the clock hasn’t yet struck 9 a.m.

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“[I]f we’re talking about automobile racing, when you swear in comedy, it’s kind of like cutting across the infield. Yes, you do get there faster, but the idea is to go all the way around the track.”

For some reason, when comedians make crude comments or toss out the f-word, audiences immediately start guffawing. Requiring both storytellers and listeners to put in a little intellectual creativity to get to the comedic payoff, as Seinfeld says, takes a bit more effort.

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