Quotes for the Day--11/6/07

Overheard yesterday at school: What if there's no such thing as a hypothetical question?


One-year-old Dale Oatney, in the hush right after the benediction at the end of the church service on Sunday: ay-MEEEHHHNN!


"The Boxer Rebellion of New York City"--Story title by Jared, based on a picture cut from a magazine advertisement--a well-dressed business man, sans trousers, briefcase in hand, standing on the curb of a city street. As Jared told the story, he was a professor who slept through his alarm, had to skip shaving to make it to his first class (Guess I'll have to go with the rugged look today.) and interpreted all the strange looks he encountered en route to his job as unseemly responses to the stubble on his face--till one student among the cheerful group in his class interrupted his lecture on Italian Renaissance music to ask if he was dressed in period costume. He looked down to check if something about his pants suggested having been made in Italy, and, in a flash, understood everything that had happened since he left home.