Words, Words, Words (Seventh Edition)

After the academic slaughterhouse which was last week, I found that looking back through the ordinary and oddball of people's words to one another relieved a bit of tension. Essays and exams can't be all-encompassing when strangers' train conversations are so pleasantly mundane. There's more to it than the onslaught of December assignments would let you believe.

I would have whipped up another Giggle post (falling back on laughter never fails), but this week I was much shorter on time. Thankfully, the W-W-W setup can be thrown together if enough quotes have been collected. And we've already established that I happily collect other people's wisdom, stupidity, and delusions whenever possible.

Have a look.

"I want it to feel like Frank Sinatra serenading me, with the snow." - girl discussing Christmas music in the Global Lounge.

"I spent most of the last summer semester not wearing shoes in class." - girl on campus.

"Turning heads like The Exorcist." - graffiti near College Street, Dublin.

"Take it off, take it off, TAKE IT OFF!" - woman midway through her group's champagne collection on the 10:15 train to Kilkenny.

"Well, I call him Donald Duck." - man volunteering political commentary over mussels, Kilkenny.

"Well, it's just wrong." - waitress correcting pronunciation of Smithwick's ale (Smith-ick's) at the Playwright in Kilkenny.

"Those are some horny women." - my grandfather after a run-in with a female party group wielding an inflatable male doll in Kilkenny.

"I feel like a Sherpa." - woman giving a piggyback ride, Celbridge.

"We're Americans, we supersize everything. What is this 'normal' size?" - American woman on train into Dublin.