The Extended Family Dictionary: November 2010

Monday, November 29, 2010

SO Sushi

Welp, there’s not much to say about this one, explanation-wise. I love sushi. And I love Susan. And I love this. It speaks for itself. It’s SO sushi. And another honorable mention to Mr. Russ Sharkey, who yet again took the reins when he saw something special and didn't let up until everyone got on board. Good job to Danny Krueger as well, for jumping in there right away. You guys are all just SO sushi.

SC to DT, DK, me, MT, AH, LP, RS, DH

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I love walking through NY. I used to work in Murray Hill (on Park Avenue South), and I'd always take the 6 down to Grand Central or Union Square and walk up Park.

Theres a Houstons over there too, on Park Ave. South and...25th? You should go there. Hmmmmmmmm. Houstons.
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RS to SC, DT, DK, me, MT, AH, LP, DH

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Houstons! When I flew in last xmas, my mom and step-dad picked me up at JFK and we drove to Houstons only to find out that 1) it's now called something else (same owners though, I think) and 2) they couldn't seat us because they had no tables so we went for Italian food on the upper west side.

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SC to RS, DT, DK, me, MT, AH, LP, DH

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Yeah. Its called Gulfstream or some shit, and I will NOT eat there. I made the mistake of going to the Santa Monica Houstons, but it turend into a Gulfstream, and had the worst experience. I wrote a complaint fax, and the manager called me, apologized, told me he read my letter to his ENTIRE staff and told them to shape up. Then he sent me a $50 gift card.

THATS why I love Houstons. Hulla good service SCREAMS.

Their cole slaw is to DIE FOR, and their artichoke appetizer is rulll good. Ooh. I want Houstons now.

The fact that they so sushi is a little off putting, but their fish sandwich is real good, and also their mixed vegetables, AND, their fish is always really good too.

DANG, I'm hungry.
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RS to SC, DT, DK, me, MT, AH, LP, DH

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Yeah, they SO sushi.
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SC to RS, DT, DK, me, MT, AH, LP, DH

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I know. Its weird right? The sushi.

But I like their specials, which are always good.
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DK to RS, SC, DT, me, MT, AH, LP, DH

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I know! I called them and I was like "you so sushi?" and they were like "yes. We SO sushi."

Sent by magic
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me to DK, RS, DT, MT, AH, LP, DH

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stupid! but when I read this part of the 'so sushi' email: AND, their fish is always really good too.DANG, I'm hungry.

I read it as 'their fish is always really hungry too.'

That also reminds me of the other day, when the lady I work with who accidentally put lemon pine sol instead of vegetable oil in a batch of box brownies she was making to take to a 4th of July bbq, admitted that when she sees my string outs [the term for the sequence of footage we put together that the editors work from], because of the way I title them ['Vicki and Tamra Have Drinks SO For Edit'] she thought I meant they were SOOOOOOOO ready for edit. SO sushi.

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MT to DK, RS, SC, DT, me, AH, LP, DH

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Oh, me so sushi! Danny, I'm loving your NY stories- jealous SCREAMS! I

want to go!!! You guys. It's a fine day. I'm not at work, I already

rode a skateboard and I'm on my way to LA. Yussssss!!!!

Peace out
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AH to DT, LP, SC, DK, RS, me, MT, DH

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Today has been intresting. We had cheese, cupcakes and champagne for an office celebration. I got a little tipsy and had a come to Jesus talk with one of my managers. Then she bought me a coffee and I had a 2nd vortex of feminine energy dump. I feel SO sushi.

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RS to AH, DT, LP, SC, DK, me, MT, DH

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The monotony, the sound of ping pong balls hitting paddles, the incessant voices in my head trying to figure out where my life goes from here... Fridays are off. the. hook. SO sushi.

I need to win the mothafuckin lottery.

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LP to SC, me, DT, RS, DK, MT, AH, DH

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Erin let's talk about show development. We call it "That's so sushi" and if a person chooses a dating partner who is out of their league they get smacked in the face with a dead fish.

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SC to me, AH, DK, RS, MT, DH, LP

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My sister and I had Houstons last night, cause I needed a pep talk to get out of my weekend funk, and I told her the "thats so sushi" story, and then I told her about Liz' tv story idea, and she spit the water in her mouth across the table.
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DT to me, LP, MT, AH, SC, DK, RS

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TOO SUSHI
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MT to LP, SC, RS, AH, DT, DK, me, DH

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Whip it is the dumbest movie. So sushi. I'm so glad that Susan spilled

the beans about her short, short man. She told us last night to wait

to tell you guys because she
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Because she what, Mercedes, because she WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Hmm. Guess we'll never know. That's SO sushi.

Anyways. You get it. Just plain easy. Just SO sushi.

SO Sushi:

A menu option provided by Gulfstream restaurants. Can also be used as an emphatic adjective.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Good Times, Noodle Salad

Sometimes it takes watching a movie six times in the theater to really appreciate it. No, I’m not talking about that movie I saw six times in the theater. I’m talking about the one where this little phrase comes from, offered by actor extraordinaire Jack Nicholson:

Now, being a fan of lakes and boats and noodle salad, I found this whole idea to be thrilling and resoundingly accurate, so I started embracing the phrase as my own. But there’s some things. According to the Websters Dictionary Online, Linguistic 101 students from the University of Oregon define, ‘good times noodle salad’ in the following way:

Specialty Expressions: GOOD TIMES, NOODLE SALAD

Expressions	Domain	Definition
Good Times, Noodle Salad	Slang	Phrase. Source: Linguistic 101 students at the University of Oregon. Definition: A reference to a really good time had with friends while eating noodle salad. Context: Used when speaking of fun times with friends or family. Social Source: Bend High School Class of 1999-2000 . Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Upon seeing this I felt a crushing desire to correct it. Sure, the phrase could be applicable to this situation, but the point is, the actual presence of noodle salad is not at all required in order to have ‘good times, noodle salad.’ That's the problem with Oregon. They take everything so literally. (God, you take these things so personally.) There’s really not much behind it, guys. It’s simple. So simple, in fact, that once I started putting it out there, it was easy to get everyone on board, whether they knew what they were referencing or not. And that makes for some good ass times, good ass noodle salad friends:

erin shea to Danny, Susan, Mercedes, Amanda
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Dang you guys. I cannot wait till some people start getting visits made. Krista and I went to this amazing wine bar on Friday night and then we went back home and watched Thursday's episode of 30 Rock for the THIRD time (we watched it Thursday but couldn't concentrate while it was on because we were coordinating with that gypsy cab driver about bringing us a skateboard and then didn't really retain anything the second time) and drank beers. Then we ran out of beers, so we (plus Elliot) went up to her room to get more. Elliot fucking freaked out and started running through the halls but we managed to take him on that field trip. Next thing you know, I wake up on the couch and Krista is passed out next to me with the same passed-out face she and Lyle have in those party bus pictures and the tv is on, candles are lit and there's pistachio nutshells EVERYWHERE. it's good times noodle salad over here.

Danny Krueger to Susan, me, Mercedes, Amanda
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You guys, I'm fucking loopy today. I came across this author's name at work, and it made me laugh out loud:
German Nudelman
German Noodle Man! Fucking dumb. Good times noodle salad!

erin shea to Danny, Susan, Mercedes, Amanda
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german times, nudelman salad!

Danny Krueger to me, Susan, Mercedes, Amanda
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Stupid! That made me laugh hard. STUPID!

I feel like I've asked this before, but where the heck does "good times noodle salad" come from?

erin shea to Danny, Susan, Mercedes, Amanda
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omega it's so dumb. It's from As Good As It Gets, when Jack Nicholson is driving to Baltimore with Greg Kinnear and Helen Hunt (he makes her go because he's afraid Greg Kinnear is going to "pull the stiff one-eye" on him) and they're talking about how Greg Kinnear basically got kicked out of the house when he told his parents he was gay and Jack Nicholson just doesn't underSTAND!

Carol Connelly: OK, we all have these terrible stories to get over, and you-...
Melvin Udall: It's not true. Some have great stories, pretty stories that take place at lakes with boats and friends and noodle salad. Just no one in this car. But, a lot of people, that's their story. Good times, noodle salad. What makes it so hard is not that you had it bad, but that you're that pissed that so many others had it good.

That movie is good though!

Amanda Huffman to Susan, me, Danny, Mercedes

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Whispering eye, ew sick. I can't stop laughing about ew sick. Good times noodle salad yesterday. It felt so right, even though Poseidon stole my sunglasses. I think I got a wee bit of a sunbyarn. Danny did your churro get sandy? (that was me by the way). I went pee when I got home and the toilet was full of sand. I must have had a real load in my bottoms. I think next weekend is supposed to be nice again. Lets do it again!

Susan Cho to me, Amanda, Danny, Mercedes

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Wait. Google wants me to add "Effin' to my calendar too!

You guys. I had a very filling but disatisfying breakfast burrito this morning and now I just feel real full and not well. I also am rulllll tired.

Oh Erin, you were highly missed this weekend. It was some good ass times, hella good ass noodle salad.

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Mercedes to me, Danny, susancho78, AmandaHuffman

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It is a cute ass shirt, cute ass noodle salad!

Sent from my iPhone

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Danny Krueger to Amanda, susancho78, Mercedes, me, Liz

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Anyway. Saturday night we went to SF Underground with Wilton, because we wanted to dance. They have an event like twice a month called "Mall Madness." You guys, it was fucking GOOD TIMES food-court noodle salad. I'm telling you. They play all this super danceable nineties music, such as Backstreet Boys, Ace of Base, Take That, and then some modern stuff too, like Robyn. But like every song that comes on, you recognize, and totally groan, but then you dance your ass off. It was so fun. Dave and I were definitely dancing on stage a few times. And drinks are pretty cheap. I have to go again.

erin shea to Danny, Amanda, susancho78, Mercedes, Liz

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Whooooo yeah. I'm finally dryin' out after this weekend too. Friday night just got late for no reason--Susan and Kevin came over and we had every intention to go out, but ended up going through two 12-packs and just chattin' it up--bashing Portland, telling college stories, talking about why we love arrested development...eating hash browns at 3am...before we knew it, the sun was coming up and we were like, uh...we should go to bed...it was good ass chinese chicken noodle salad.

Mercedes Taylor to Susan, David, me, Liz, Russ, Danny, Amanda, Debra

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Good screams noodle salad guys.

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Peace out

Debra Hamilton to me, susancho78, David, Mercedes, Russ, Liz, Amanda, Danny

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All those Asians are the same with their Asian names. Like Mike. And Chester. And Susan. Just like all those gays are the same with their gay names. Like Danny. And David. And Russ. Damn Asians. Damn gays. Now that the gays can up and marry each other, the Asians will probably want to as well.

So yeah, I was thinking Chester because he was RULL funny and a good ass times chinese chicken noodle salad.

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Amanda Huffman to Russ, David, Susan, Liz, me, Danny, Mercedes, Debra

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Syack.

You guys, Alright by Supergrass is a good ass song. It reminds me of good ass noodle salad times and nudie pile ons with you all. I think I have post vest weekend depression screams.

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Liz Pfeffer to Danny, me, David, Russ, susancho78, Amanda, Mercedes, Debra

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I don't expect to be home from work before 8 anyway since I have to go cover this huge media event at Devil's Slide. We could have a good time chinese chickin lickin finger noodle salad in those parts

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Debra Hamilton to David, Danny, talkingtoliz, me, Amanda, susancho78, Russ, Mercedes

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D, how long will you be in Austin? My little brother and his wife live there and they have a BOAT on lake whatever-the-name-of-the-lake-is. He's real laid back and likes to drink.

You could probably easily convince him to take the boat out. It's so much fun. You drink and ride on an inner tube. Then you tie the boat up to a billion other boats and drink more. Fun times inner tube noodle salad!

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Amanda Huffman to me, Debra, David, Danny, talkingtoliz, susancho78, Russ, Mercedes

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Tooling around on a boat sounds like the life. I like those Hamiltons. Olivia sure is cute. Like cartoon cute!

Erin, whats with changing up the good times noodle salad lately? I thought we had something.

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And we do, La Huff, we DO have something! We've got it all. The vest life ever SCREAMS!

And just to give extra credit where it's due, no good times saying would be complete without hearing from the connoisseur of good times, Miss Jerri Blank. So, in honor of Thanksgiving and being a boozer a user and a loser, I encourage you all to have some good turkey times, mashed potato noodle salad this weekend.

Good Times, Noodle Salad:

A way of expressing an event or circumstance in which an enjoyable time will or has been had. However, ‘good’ can be replaced with any adjective to suit your needs. Try to use it in a sentence today!

Friday, November 19, 2010

Piggytail

As a wise man who one of my cats shares a first name with once said, ‘there are two types of people in this world: those who like Neil Diamond and those who don’t.’ In my version, the Neil Diamond part becomes, ‘to use annoying words and typographic characters.’ I am one of those who don’t. Which is tough, considering I work in an industry filled with production-related lingo and verbiage. While I’ll give in to a “copy that” here and a “what’s your 20?” there, I refuse to use phrases like “looping in,” or end emails with “best,” preceding my signature. I don’t know why it bothers me so, but I recall a brunch with some of the members of my diverse friendship tribe (ahem, David, work your magic there) during which we had a discussion about the various phrases we loathe. Amongst the frontrunners were “cup a’joe” and “how many Benjamins will that cost?’ along with Sara Buskirk's hatred for words containing a double O sound. (Booooooth. Spoooooon. Pooooo.) So all of us on the ‘those who don’t’ side have our various hang-ups and I respect each and every one of them.

Recently, the trend on the good ol’ Facebook has been to add an @ symbol to a person’s name when responding to a comment:

Michael Hong Damn straight. Aint that the truth.

What’s the point? I understand it when you’re tagging someone in a post (and note, the @ symbol just serves to link and does nahhhhht end up appearing in the post), but to just add this stupid @ to let the person whose name you also write know that this is your response to his or her specific comment, is so dumb. It’s really dumb. For real. (No offense, Mike Hung. I guess you just really like Neil Diamond.) One day I finally expressed my annoyance with this in the daily email chain:

erin shea

to David, Amanda, Liz, Russ, Danny, to, MercedesTaylor, Debra

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Um. you guys know what I hate? it's along the lines of 'copy that' and 'looping ____ in so we'll be on the same page' and 'as per our conversation.' I hate when people do @David or @Erin in comment replies on fb. I especially hate things like @Erin: check your inbox. ANNOYING DUMB LEXICON SCREAMS!

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Thankfully my amazing friends always have my back and were right there ready to come up with an alternative for this obnoxious crap, based on our smart friend David Tousley explaining that the @ symbol is, in some countries, referred to as a piggytail (but not in Italy, where it's called 'snail' and not in Germany where's it's called 'spider monkey.' And especially not in Russia, where it's called 'doggie'). Thus, an alternative was born and incorporated into our vocabulary, with, of course, some variations along the way:

David Tousley

to Liz, Russ, Amanda, me, susancho78, Mercedes, Danny, Debra

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I do declare, piggytail Liz.. your sweet words could charm the morning dew right off the honeysuckle...

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susancho78@gmail.com

to Liz, me, David, Amanda, Russ, Mercedes, Danny, Debra

show details Sep 30

Ruh roh. Piggytail Luss. Rooks rike you have a seclet admirer. (I'm talking chinesey)
ROR!

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Mercedes Taylor

to me, susancho78, Russ, Amanda, David, Liz, Danny, Debra

show details Sep 18

He dropped a piggytail.

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Debra Hamilton

to David, Amanda, Russ, Liz, susancho78, me, Danny, Mercedes

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Piggytail Liz: I have a second laptop, but it's all the way over there...you know...over THERE...feet away from me in our huge apartment.

David, you better get your story-telling pants on for Saturday b/c I wanna hear it.

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David Tousley

to susancho78, me, Liz, Russ, Debra, Danny, Amanda, Mercedes

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Piggytail Obama: Why is America so retarded when it comes to health care?

Liz Pfeffer

to Amanda, David, Russ, Mercedes, Danny, me, susancho78, Debra

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Piggytail Amanda: I bought ones for luna park and and blue plate. I'm such a sucker.

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Russ Sharkey

to susancho78, Liz, Amanda, me, David, Debra, Mercedes, Danny

show details Oct 18

Piggytail nothing: I've been reading about the effects of alcohol on the digestive tract. Um, the shit I'm reading (pardon the pun) is giving me reason to believe that alcohol is partially responsible for the digestion issues I have

David Tousley

to Susan, Amanda, Danny, Mercedes, me, Russ, Liz

show details Nov 17 (2 days ago)

You guys, at 6:20... what the hull is Dorothy using? It's like some kind of typewriter/laptop from the 80's. I'm cornfused. Also, piggytailSusan, can you please wear her outfit to work tomorrow and take lotsa pictures?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrRhX6tKPZY

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Russ Sharkey

to susancho78, Debra, me, Danny, Liz, David, Mercedes, Amanda

show details 8:11 PM (19 hours ago)

Piggyback Susan, that just cracked me up.

Debra Hamilton

to Russ, susancho78, me, Danny, Liz, David, Mercedes, Amanda

show details 8:29 PM (19 hours ago)

Wait. When did piggytail become piggyback?

piggybutt David, ZPH sleeps with her cute little alphabet blanket every night. It's so warm and soft! Will you ask your grandma to make a me-sized one? Instead of the alphabet, she could sew extended family phrases on it.

And while the use of it is still completely pointless considering all that’s really required in these types of communications is using the person’s name and it takes longer to type than the stupid @ symbol, it’s way more fun and a whole lot cooler. So. Piggytail all y’all: get on board.

Piggytail: A way to get someone’s attention even though you’re already referring to them by name. Use in place of @ on the Facebook. Not to be confused with the hairstyle. Pigtails and Piggytails are two very different things.