Favorite Quotes, Favorite Smells, and Spring!

It has been pointed out to me that my blog sounds rather sarcastic.  I'm all in favor of a healthy dose of sarcasm, but I realize that too much is not fun to read.  So I have decided to blog on something that I love.  Quotes.  Of all kinds.  I begin with all of the lovely things that my niece Brooklyn says/has said. (Now don't get all offended Sarah, I haven't known Livi as long, but the way she says "amo" is just delicious.)  All of you that know Brooklyn will have to add her inflection back in, as I cannot type it here.

• "Oh sweetie, I have to grow up fast."
• "It scares me just a little bit."
• "But just one/just a couple!"
• "It's a little bit yummy and a little bit yucky."
• "Once upon of time, there was a dragon.  RAWR!"
• "I probably don't like pie. Remember...pie?"
• "With silver bellllllllls, and cockle shells, and pretty Marys, all in a row."
• "Lise Bear!"
• ("What color is Papa Joe's hair?" -Me) "He doesn't have any.  It fell off his head onto my head!"
• ("See, now Rapunzel's hair is wavy." -Maria) "Like Christy's."

Okay, maybe I am a little bit biased on the last one.  But it just shows you how absolutely brilliant she is. And what amazing taste she has.

Favorite quotes from recent animated movies.  Like I said, I'm a quote freak.  If you are not interested or have not seen the movies, feel free to skip over this part.  Like, seriously.  Skip it.  It is long.  If you read it, you may never read my blog again.  Cara is probably the only one who will appreciate this.  But I had to put it in.  Because I love it.

Tangled:

• "You should know that this is the strangest thing I have ever done!" -Flynn
• "I am a despicable human being....BEST DAY EVER!" -Rapunzel
• "I do like ducklings." -Rapunzel "Yay!" -Flynn
• "I have dreams like you, no really! They're just much less...touchy feely." -Flynn
• "You smell that? Take a deep breath through the nose. Really let that seep in. What are you getting? Because to me, that's part man-smell, and the other part is really bad man-smell. I don't know why, but overall it just smells like the color brown. Your thoughts?" -Flynn
• "I have made the decision to trust you." -Rapunzel "A horrible decision really." -Flynn
• "I'll bet my surprise is bigger!" -Mother Gothel "I seriously doubt it." -Rapunzel
  
• "Stay calm.  It can probably smell fear." -Flynn

Thanks to www.imdb.com/title/tt0398286/quotes for the help in remembering them.


Megamind:

• "Your weakness is copper?  You're kidding, right?" -Megamind
• "I'm not allowed to insult patrons directly." -Bernard
• "Well, use the forget-me-stick." -Megamind
• (About the hero suit) "I have a son?" -Hal  "No.  It's for you.  It stretches." -Space Dad
• "There's no tooth fairy, there's no easter bunny, and there's no Queen of England!" -Titan
• "On this beautiful day we are here to celebrate a beautiful man..." -Roxanne
• A dialouge:
• "Over here, old friend! In case you've noticed, you've fallen right into my trap!" -Megamind
• "You can't trap justice! It's an idea, a BELIEF!" -Metro Man
• "Even the most heartfelt belief can get corroded over time!" -Megamind
• "Justice is a non-corrosive metal!" -Metro Man
• "But metals can be melted, by the heat of revanche!" -Megamind
• "It's REVENGE, and it's best served cold!" -Metro Man
• "But it can be easily reheated, in the microwave of evil!" -Megamind
• "Well, I think your warranty's about to expire!" -Metro Man
• "Maybe I got an extended warranty!" -Megamind
• "Warranties are invalid, if used beyond their intended purpose!" -Metro Man
• "Girls, girls, you're both pretty! Can I go home now?" -Roxanne
• "The fire of my evil burns bright! Now say something good back to me." -Space Dad
• "Oooh, I'm shaking in my custom baby seal leather boots! " -Megamind
• Another Dialogue:
• "Good luck on your date!" -Minion
• "I will!" -Megamind
• "That doesn't even make any sense!" -Minion
• "I know!" -Megamind
• And another
• "This town isn't big enough for two supervillains!" -Titan
• "Oh, you're a villain all right, just not a super one!" -Megamind
• "Oh yeah?  What's the difference?" -Titan
• "Presentation!" -Megamind
• "Oh! My giant blue head!"-Megamind
• I must be into these tonight
• "You don't judge a book by its cover, or a person by the outside." -Roxanne
• "Oh! That's a relief to hear." -Megamind (Bernard)
• "You judge them by their actions." -Roxanne
• "Well that seems kinda petty, don't you think?" -Megamind
• I only keep inserting my comments to make the format work.
• "Sir, I think this is a bad idea." -Minion
• "Yes, this is a very wickedly bad idea for the greater good of bad!" -Megamind
• "But I'm saying this is a kind of bad that, okay, I think it's good from your "bad" perception, but from a "good" perception, it...it...it's just plain bad!" -Minion
• "Oh, you don't know what's good for bad!" -Megamind
• "And I love you, random citizen!" -Metro Man
• "I'm ready to be a responsible member of society." -Megamind
• "Happy pictures make happy people." -Megamind's prison cell
• "He would win some.  I would almost win others." -Megamind

Again. Imdb.

How to Train Your Dragon:

• "And now, he's spinning.  Thank you for nothing, you useless reptile." -Hiccup
• "You just gestured to all of me." -Hiccup
• "I swear I'm so angry right now!  I will avenge your beautiful hand and your beautiful foot! I'll chop off the legs of every dragon I fight...with my face." -Snotlout
• "Most people would leave.  Not us.  We're Vikings. We have stubborn-ness issues." -Hiccup
• "Trolls are real. They steal your socks.  But only the left ones; what's with that?" -Gobber
• "Oh I'm hurt!  I am very much hurt!" -Ruffnut
• "Uh, between you and me, the village could do with a little less feeding, don't you think?" -Hiccup
• "Thank you for summing that up." -Hiccup
• "All right, you caught me, drag me back.  I have been making outfits..." -Hiccup
• "Da da da, we're dead." -Hiccup
• "Hey Toothless, we're going on vacation, like...forever." -Hiccup

Thanks to wikiquote (Wikipedia is a wonderful tool, despite what graders of research papers tell you.)


Okay.  That got too long.  Like a lot.  Oh well. On to the favorite smells.  I promise such an odd concept has an explanation.  My substitute seminary teacher asked each of us our favorite smell so that she could remember our names by association, and I began thinking that I didn't just have one favorite smell...

• Rain in Utah
• Pine
• Fireworks
• Tomato plants
• Saunas
• Baking bread
• Snowy air
• New clothes
• Oranges
• Old books
• Lilacs

What are your favorite smells?  Or movie quotes.  As a side note, spring is here!  Life is again glorious (went rollerblading today.  Ahh.)

Formulas for "highest rated" Youtube comments

Have you noticed that all of the comments that are rated the highest on youtube videos follow the same pattern?  To engineer such a comment, you must either play on people's emotions or their sense of feeling important/belonging to a club.  Examples follow:

"Thumbs up if you (insert something to do with the song.)"

"Justin Beiber sucks and (insert name of artist) rocks!"

"(# of people) were crying so hard that they missed the like button/listen to Justin Bieber/need to go die in a hole."        *note: said  # is slightly lower than the number of dislikes on the song.  (Apparently that intelligent remark didn't stop people from expressing their opinions.)*

And my personal favorite from today (this is a direct quotation)
"I hate it when people bring up Justin Bieber in every video!"

                         Oh, the irony.

Be aware of the formula.  Armed with it, you could become obscurely famous.