Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Fruit-themed double header

(outside MIT student center with 3 guys, 2 from Swarthmore, one from Yale; the nerdiness is pleasantly palpable)
Me: I never know what to do with orange seeds. Can I just spit them out?
Swarthmore guy: Yes, but only if you refrain from spitting them at the people who suggest that you dispense with them thus.
Other Swarthmore guy: Or others within spit radius of the suggester of said rule.

(at champagne reception for retiring professor; a good case for why not to serve champagne before lunch)
Steve: Hana, will you help me take over El Salvador?
Hana: Steve? ... That's really stupid.
Steve: No, but see, El Salvador is the gateway to Honduras. And Honduras is the gateway to... bananas.
Hana: And bananas are the gateway to...?
Steve: People's hearts.

1 comment:

bostonmed said...

Can I get a NERD ALERT! I have to give props to the kid who ended his sentence to you with 'thus'. He clearly has been watching his Mobil Masterpiece Theater.

I hope you flashed them your ankles.