<p>Hello, dear QOTW subscribers.</p>
<p>Apologies for the delays and cancellations of which we've been guilty over the last few weeks. Just remember,</p>
<p>it could be worse - at least we're not the commuter rail.</p>
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<p>Last time's voting (from an email before exams, I believe) ended in a tie between these two:</p>
<p>"I know, right? I'll be talking to an Italian on the phone and when I meet them in person I say 'Whoa, who are</p>
<p>you? 'cause you're definitely that sexy guy I was talking to on the phone yesterday...' "</p>
<p>- Kailash, riffing in a state of post-exam loopy-ness on the claim that Italians only sound hot</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>"I suggest you run around the block once every hour. This will increase your circulation, including the</p>
<p>circulation to your brain."</p>
<p>- Mr. Davis, asked how best to prepare for his English 10 midyear</p>
<p>Congratulations to both.</p>
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<p>This week's choices:</p>
<pre>"Now, let's all take a minute and think about our mothers break-dancing."<br />- Astrid<br /><br /></pre>
<pre>"I didn't mean to say to melt the pancakes, I meant cheese! Like, melt the butte- no, cheese, then- yeah, <br />there's got to be a better word than 'pancake' but I don't know it! ...shut up, I was trying to explain tacos."<br />- Rui (in Chinese), proving that translation fail goes both ways<br /><br /></pre>
<pre>"Spring is dating and mating season."<br />"I do both."<br />- Caleb and Anika, who apparently meant to say she dates during both winter and spring<br /><br /></pre>
<pre>"Want to see something scary? Those are four nuclei. The cells are gigantic and we don't know why! We've <br />created mutants!"<br />- MIT scientists, looking at their cells<br /><br /></pre>
<pre>"It doesn't have the same [makes gesture] that thing... you know what I mean."<br />- Eloise<br /><br /></pre>
<pre>"Good violin is like good caramel."<br />- Ian H., who has little patience for either but is sort of okay with the best of each<br /><br /></pre>
<pre>"So if you do this [spins halfway around while vibrating his lips] that's raspberry pi! I should teach that to my son <br />Dylan. He's just discovered how to lift up one leg and spin around, and he loves blowing raspberries... he can <br />only spin around this much, though, so I guess he could do raspberry pi-over-two."<br />- Mr. Sherry, drawn miles off course into what began as a "why radians are unit-less" tangent<br /><br /></pre>
<pre>"Tricia's laying down the foot!"<br />- Tahmid, getting caught somewhere between "laying down the law" and "putting her foot down"<br /><br /></pre>
<pre>"Commonwealth is basically a group of students united by their mutual hatred and resentment of being relegated <br />to the kid's table."<br />- Talia L.<br /><br /></pre>
<pre>[Mr. Davis takes a handkerchief from his pocket and blows his nose.] ("Is that a handkerchief?") "...no, it's a small <br />raccoon. Yes, of course it's a handkerchief!" ("You carry a handkerchief?") "Yes! Back in the old days, before this <br />'tissue paper' nonsense, we carried around handkerchieves, and we blew our noses and put it in our pockets!"<br />- Mr. Davis<br /><br /><br />Vote! Vote by replying to this email with a list of your top however-many-you'd-like choices. Further instructions <br />at http://www.qotw.net/voting.php. More importantly, submit! Shaul and I can't hear everything funny that goes <br />on, and we inevitably forget some of what we hear as well. There's a lovely, simple submission tool at <br />http://www.qotw.net/submit.php<br /><br />If you aren't already subscribed to it, consider signing up for the Honorable Mentions list by sending an email to <br />honorablementions-subscribe@qotw.net. HM emails are sent out periodically once surplus submissions have built <br />up sufficiently.<br /><br />Enjoy. Vote. Submit.<br />- Asa "I'm attempting to fix some formatting problems here; sorry in advance for any bizarre line breaks" Goodwillie<br /></pre>