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<pre>Alas, Tahmid's earlier proclamation that we've dawned a new era of on-time emails has quickly been disproven. At least you'll have this one in time for the holidays, when I'm sure you'll be collecting and submitting enough quotations to make my and Tahmid's choices rather difficult. Speaking of which, we received a whopping 52 submissions this week!
But before this week, the winner from last week, according to only one vote, was Lexie! She said "You want my number?? 617...BAM winning is my number," when advising those of the fairer sex on how to beat boys at arm wrestling. In second place was Mr. Wharton's Fruedian slip about demons. Uh, I mean, about republicans.
Here are a subjective top ten submissions from this week (many more shall appear in the honorable mentions email I'll send after frantically folding neon yellow sweaters at work later tonight; to subscribe, you can write to this being: honorablementions-subscribe@qotw.net):
"Do you want vegetables? Potatoes? How about some fries? We've got to make sure you're eating right; you're either going to be saving the world or blowing it up."
-MIT cafe server to student trying to buy lunch
"Did you know that they have Dr. King legos?"
-Ms. Haber, meaning Doctor Who
"I mean, we have a wreath and a tree, and some people down the street have lights and stuff, and my neighbors have a Rabbi."
-Megan Berry, on Christmas decorations
"You really want me to convince this knife that toilet paper is sexy? That's really what you want me to do?"
- Astrid Oberbrunner
"Excuse me, but have YOU ever tried opening Microsoft Word on a gerbil? It's rather difficult."
-Nayab, in a completley inexplicable conversation.
"...and Mr. Davis [is a judge for the Shakespeare Competition], so there will be excellent eyebrows involved."
-Brenna
"Mark, I don't believe in talking about people behind their backs, so just to let you know I just called you an Asshole"
"It's ok Mr. Wharton, I trust your judgement."
-Mr. Wharton and Mark, on mutual respect
"I always walk past people who insinuate I'm a bad person if I walk past them. I'm just like, 'I *am* a bad person!'"
-Ms. Kane
"Yes, but you can wiggle your eyebrows suggestively, whereas the owl cannot. Do not despair."
-Nayab, consoling someone about a talented owl.
"If you feel like bringing me back Rowan Atkinson, that'd be nice too!"
"Oh, no, because my wife has a huge crush on him so we can't get anywhere near him."
-Eva and Mr. Connoly, discussing Mr. Connoly's imminent trip to London
(Some of them were spam, about pregnancy and techno remixes at that. How disappointing.)
Keep up the voting by writing to this address: http://www.qotw.net/voting.php. Also feel free to send Tahmid and I messages along with your rankings -- I've spotted a couple of these already, and they are really cute.
Have a lovely holiday season, and don't get too bogged down by the capitalism of it all!
Sophie "determined to continue saying quotation for the noun form instead of this slangish 'quote'" Bucci</pre>
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