By “hearing” I mean seeing, reading or absorbing in some form or another. In some cases, even spewing.
“If I talk ballcurry to someone like you about video games, you will know it’s ballcurry. For example if I told you I knew the chief CEO of Konami, you know I’m talking ballcurry!”, a good friend who decided to set the world record for a sentence with the word, “ballcurry”.
“I play with dogs…not women.”, another friend on his reason for volunteering with the Welfare For Stray Dogs.
“God of War is an RPG! You play the role of Kratos.”, the lengths to which a point can be proven. Also, shit my Sam says to prove a point.
“Judas Priest is opening for Metallica. They’re some 90s band. Like the Spice Girls.”, spewed from the same mouth that gave us ballcurry and chief CEO.
“When you hear the song Pokerface, do you think of Po from Kung Fu Panda or Lady Gaga?”, as you can see, I am a deep thinker. And stuff.
“I can’t be a sycopanth but I can be a yes man!”, the same world record setting friend describing his strategy for tackling his boss.
“Honesty is expensive. Cheap people don’t have it.”, sign outside a church.
“Your PC sucks because it doesn’t warn me when I close a window!”, the sisterbot on why Macs are awesome.
“Video games = you’re a nano-augmented bad ass. Movies = you’re a transgendered travelling salesman.”, as seen on Twitter.
“Snow Leopard? What is that?”, the collective staff at the Breach Candy iStore.
”Malaika how friendly are you with gadgets?” , random suit at a press con featuring Malaika Arora.
“Malaika wanted to touch, feel and do things to all the products presented to her!”, same random suit showing his lecherous side to all and sundry. See the video at a torrent site near you!
“Apple removed JPEG support for the iPad or what?” , expertly called by a fellow Apple skeptic. And more believable than funny.
“Publishers have a good rapport with journalists and get good reviews. “, explains a games developer on how things work. Guess we know why a lot of games get bad reviews then.
“Register, pay $99 and download it for free!”, the same developer elucidating how easy it is to develop for iOS.
“You have any friends in the suburbs? I’m looking for a maid.”, this is what happens when townies decide to move to the ‘burbs.
“Get your time periods right woman!”, this is me trying to correct said ex-townie five minutes later.
Vital Stats:
Quotes featuring Apple in one form or another: 3
Quotes about some Bollywood celeb: 2
Quotes with video games: 4
Quotes resulting in facepalm: all of them
