“I believe I’ve seen this.”
“Maybe you’ve just seen the hair.”
“I’ve seen the makeup and the shoulder pads as well.”
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[The eighties: the horror.]
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Domestic comedy
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Monday, January 22, 2018
Domestic comedy
[Singing.]
“In the bleak Midwestern. . . .”
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[Context here.]
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Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Domestic comedy
“O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can I know my trousers from my pants?”
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[With apologies to William Butler Yeats.]
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Sunday, March 24, 2019
Domestic comedy
“I could do folding, but I don’t feel like it. I put in a long day at the pageant.”
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[Elaine spent a couple of hours at a pageant yesterday waiting to hear one of her students perform.]
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Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Domestic comedy
[Too much Hallmark.]
“Is Kringlefest one word or two?”
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[I guess my typing decided it. But should it be camel-cased?]
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Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Domestic comedy
[We were watching The Dick Van Dyke Show, with Laura Petrie (Mary Tyler Moore) calling her husband “darling,” over and over and over.]
“Why doesn’t she just call him Rob?”
“For the same reason Sally is the typist.”
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[In the writers’ office, Sally Rogers (Rose Marie) is the one who types.]
By Michael Leddy at 9:46 AM comments: 0
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Domestic comedy
Waiting in line at our friendly neighborhood multinational retailer, we wondered about the doings in the nail salon beyond the registers:
“Do they wash them first?”
“I wouldn’t know. I’ve never set foot in one of those places.”
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Sunday, September 3, 2017
Domestic comedy
“American cheese?”
“No, cheese cheese.”
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Sunday, March 29, 2015
Domestic comedy
[After deciding not to go to the fancy place for dinner.]
“I’ll leave my thesaurus at home then.”
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Friday, July 17, 2015
Domestic comedy
[Olive oil on the tablecloth. Oops.]
“Don’t use the good salt.”
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[At one time, salt was just salt.]
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Thursday, March 14, 2019
Domestic comedy
[Ciphers are sometimes difficult to work out.]
“What kind of ten-year-old are you?”
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Saturday, February 11, 2017
Domestic comedy
“She’s some kind of a star.”
“That must be why we’ve never heard of her.”
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Sunday, May 19, 2019
Domestic comedy
Three young women wearing high-school team jackets entered the elevator. Elaine and I followed. We were all headed to the third floor. The doors opened, and I thought of something to say as I stepped to the rear:
“I’m a gentleman. Everybody out!”
Laughter followed, all the way down the hall.
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[Not every elevator joke is inappropriate.]
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Domestic comedy
“I saw that look in your hands.”
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[The subject was pistachios.]
By Michael Leddy at 6:17 AM comments: 0
Friday, July 31, 2020
Domestic comedy
[The television was on.]
“We have some new polling to show you, and it shows some trouble for the Trump campaign.”
Followed by spontaneous applause from our four hands.
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Thursday, March 13, 2014
Domestic comedy
“It’s a spout-type thing. What am I saying? It’s a spout.”
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Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Domestic comedy
[Last night, talking about Andrew, watching Chris. Elaine speaking.]
“They have the same Cuomosomes.”
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[Elaine is so proud of this one that she asked me to credit her. These posts are usually without who-said-what explanations.]
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Saturday, November 18, 2017
Domestic comedy
“We’ve never been to the new McDonald’s — which is now old McDonald’s.”
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Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Domestic comedy
“Should I just chuck these catalogues?”
“Yeah.”
“We’ll get more.”
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Friday, June 9, 2017
Domestic comedy
[After closing up a box of pasta with plastic wrap and a rubber band.]
“It keeps the weevils out.”
“We don’t have weevils.”
“And this is why.”
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