Unexpected Profundity Arbitrary Quotation Series

If you’re like us and you like inexplicable quotes, you may wish to visit occasionally our sister site, Unexpected Profundity.  The editors of the “UXP” blog basically scour the world of information to bring you a series of fun, weird, profound quotations every so often.  Then they annotate them a little bit.  So far they are up to seven in total.  Leah and Isaac were quoted recently.

http://unexpectedprofundity.wordpress.com/

My Last Name is Volcano

Yesterday Leah and Isaac published their first book, a compilation of the quotes we’ve posted here over the last few months, called My Last Name Is Volcano.  (The title comes from one of the quotes).  Their words are more fun to read in book format.  For more information, visit the publisher’s page:

http://www.leastshiningcrescent.com/2009/06/new-publications.html

Our Book Cover. Might Look Familiar . . .

Word Clouds

We exported Isaac’s and Leah’s Twitter entries since March 7 and then used Wordle to graphically represent them as a word “cloud,” more common words becoming bigger. For your edification.

Isaac’s:

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/900417/Isaac%27s_Tweets

and Leah’s:

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/900453/Leah%27s_Tweets

Lots of Recent Leah Quotes

Leah would like to share a few ideas with you, too.

• We’re not going to school because it’s yucky. Stinks.
• You needa tickle me when I poke you. Poke.
• Put something in and mix, mix, mix, then you have whipped cream and we all had a lick then stir, stir, stir, then put in some water.
• Hello, Isaac, what are you doing? Good bye! Hello, Isaac, why are you sleeping like that with your froggy wavy tails? Good bye!
• What about the TInkertoys box? It goes higher than the sky? Are you typing that in, Papa?
• The kitty-cat mask I wanna wear sometimes. Are you typing that in?
• Jenna just plays by herself sometimes. Sometimes with me too. Are you typing that in?
• I wish I could dance like that.  Maybe I don’t wanna dance like that.
• I see a boy with a pony tail. Papa, one day you were having a shirt on and you were wearing a pony tail without glasses. He has glasses.
• Sometimes you be mad, Papa.
• Why do you want to rub my head? Because it smells so good?
• Leah’s bird has a mad eye because he’s bad. But a liitle bit he’s good. He has sad inside his body. No, goodness.
• You guys made me do a lot. I like to do a lot.
• Smell my hair, it smells like dinner.
• If you make fun of the people who are in our stage you have to leave our stage.
• If you want some cake you need to come to my birthday and ask your mom and do things.
• Papa, you need to be quiet because we’re on the stage and the lights are off. But you can open your eyes. And turn your things off.
• I’m a bag. A bag with a face.
• There’s jellyfish under this tunnel so someone needs to put their foot behind so you can not get out.
• Girl eyes can only go up and down, up and down. That’s what I said.
• I’m not Leah, I’m Superstar.  Superstar can do anything. When there’s an emergency, Superstar can skip faster.
• I didn’t feel my teeth crunching on the chips. I knew I needed to be crunching on the chips but when I looked Isaac had them.
• We wrote a letter to Isaac and Oakes and the color is purple.
• Can we race down there and come back here? Can we really do that? Can we?
• When I’m 12, can I eat gum?
• Earwax. Yuck. It smells like numbers.
• Lops are like raindrops only they have tails and backs like a leaf. Like a monkey only smaller.
• Isaac, this is like a kooky-looking, kooky-kooky-kooky looking car. It’s so kooky looking.
• It’s loud. I’m gonna do a not loud. Is this loud?
• I go to the Apple Store, but something’s funny: no apples, only iPhones!

Leah having a scone and thinking about what to say next.

Isaac Quotes.

What’s on Isaac’s mind? We won’t keep you in suspense for long. A collection of recently articulated thoughts:

• They have 2 eggs at the museum of science in the beehive in case they want bee babies.
• That sign says No Turn On Red.
• When they want to make avocado and nuts in the back of their car they just do it.
• I want to sleep in the street and let cars run over me. Because I love them.
• I care about cars.
• Get out of buss’s way!
• He just has a ball of hair. A big ball.
• Mama said she’s too tired to put on my socks.
• I have to be a detective.
• Don’t go too close to that Nissan.
• The bees are making pollen on my ear. It feels so hot. I have allergy attack.
• How do you put tires on cars?
• What’s America?
• How do you make a road?
• Does this show have cars in it?
• When I was a baby I smoked a pipe.
• If you stand in the street and cars are comin’ and they drive over you, you will be flat. That’s not good.
• Do my eyes look like girl eyes? I want girl eyes.
• When I was a baby, I loved cars. Every day I loved cars.
• Egg island? I love egg island!
• Why does Ford have its name inside a tire?
• I wanna climb up a beanstalk to get to the cereal.

Haircut at Charlie's Barbershop

Recent Quotes from Isaac and Leah

For your pleasure, a selection of choice quotes from Leah and Isaac over the last few weeks.  There’s more where this came from.

Leah:

• All of these cars are allergic and there’s a monster coming.
• Superman!   Get off the computer! OK, don’t get off the computer.  Bye!
• The little kids are coming in your room to bite you.
• Everybody needs to come over and say “I don’t like you.”
• Pokey things are danger.
• You are not a ghost but it’s danger in here.
• Every night if the storm blows off a tire then we need to fix it every day.

Isaac:

• Sometimes I nudge. I’m just called the nudger.
• He has 3 smokestacks. That’s a lot of smokestacks.
• That’s where the driver sits.  And that’s where the Princesses sit.
• I don’t want Papa to drive.
• The ghost car keeps driving everywhere.  It keeps pushin’ cars and mushin’ cars.
• I don’t like to eat haunted jelly because it belongs to ghosts.  And ghosts like it because it’s even spicer.
• Papa’s feet and my feet feel great!

Isaac and Leah chase pigeons on Mother's Day.

Quotes of the Day

• Leah: It’s daytime so Little Beary needs to wake up.  Little Beary is named Cherry.
• Isaac: Can I sleep on this Moumi?  Type in “little.”
• Leah: Get out of here, Isaac!
• Issac: But I’m doing my chomp!
• Leah: Isaac do you want some candy?  I have two kinds: chocolate or vanilla or chocolate or strawberry.
• Isaac: What are paws?
• Leah: No!  Isaac hit me with that ball right on the neck.
• Isaac: It was an accident.
• Leah: If you don’t have any you can’t go to the party.
• Isaac: I don’t want to go to the party.
• Leah: Everybody needs to go to the party.
• Isaac: I’m staying home with Papa.
• Leah: The sign says no balls at parties.  You can only dance at parties.
• Isaac: Is it gonna be a baby bear dance?
• Leah: Isaac, you need to be nice to me.
• Isaac: Oakes has gone to Gloucester.  A long time along I went inside Oakes’ house.  And I played with him and I played with his cars.  And I cleaned up.  And I came home.
• Leah:  I’m literally climbing the walls.
• Isaac: I heard my sister cough.
• Leah: There was a princess who got married and then she goed crazy (describing Lucia di Lammermoor).
• Isaac: I have a new drink and it’s orange juice and honey.
• Leah: Isaac, you’re breaking my car!  Are you fixing it?
• Isaac: I’m just checking it.
• Leah: But he’s fixing it and it’s already fixed.
• Isaac: I’m tired because I yawned.

Easter candy: not for the faint of heart.

Recent Quotes

• Isaac: I got scared and I made a mad face (while watching Thunder Cats).
• Leah: Nobody wants to see us playing with their Big Boy . . . Nobody wants to see us touching the eggs in their trees . . . Nobody wants to see us sitting on their step . . . Nobody wants to see us going up to their door . . .
• Leah: I’m supposed to be in front.  Says who?  I said it.
• Isaac: Who taped my volcano?
• Leah: We’re almost ready. We’re going to be right on time. We’re just making the birthday cake.
• Isaac: Who took my 6-wheeled car?
• Leah:  If anyone calls for a tissue, I will give them a tissue from my box.  I call it a tissue house. If anyone needs tissues, call out for tissue.
• Isaac: I only like things that have wheels.
• Leah: That’s so yummy I can eat a door!
• Isaac: Don’t talk about it Papa.
• Leah: They had a house with a cat on the woods and the cat is arm lifts up and that’s their door (the Thunder Cats).  There’s a little bit of cats and a little bit of thunder.
• Isaac: That’s so good, I can eat a sheep!
• Leah: When I was trying to draw, a little bit of draw came on me (Explaining why she had a magic marker mark on her forehead).
• Isaac: Only some pants I need.
• Leah: when I was singing “10-11-6 at the ladybug picnic,” Isaac was hitting me and throwing things at me and bonking me on the head
• Isaac: If I see that I will poke it with a fork (referring to a menacing human-headed flower on Thunder Cats cartoon).
• Leah: I was not the one who was fighting over you, you were the one who was fighting over me.
• Isaac: Papa, this is my screwdriver (using fake ear of corn to dial rotary phone).
• Leah: I have to go get pizza so I will be right there until I watch a show Sponge Bob.

 

Contemplating cake.

Quotes of the Week

Quotes from the past week, randomly assembled.

Isaac: I never get to do anything.
Leah: No, yes, no, yes, no, yes, no, yes.
Isaac: I don’t like your name.
Leah: Papa, the computer is not doing the things I want it to do.
Isaac: I’m drinking Hemp Milk.
Leah: Is I’m drinking Hemp Milk?
Isaac: I wanna say . . . uh . . . I love you.
Leah: Chickens don’t know to go potty.
Isaac: Why is it late? Because the moon is shining on us?
Leah: I yelled too loud and my toothbrush fell out.
Isaac: You have to count to 5 before you eat the monster.
Leah: (Watching Henry the Fifth) They are gonna fight over in France.
Isaac: Why did they fight in France?  Because they didn’t want the other people to come in the castle.
Leah: Where is France?
Isaac: A long time ago I was an astronaut and I went in a rocket ship and I went to space.
Isaac: (Speaking to an episode of Thunder Cats) I didn’t like the octopus and I didn’t like the monsters.  The octopus looked like a cyclops.  Cyclopses have one eye.

Leah playing hop scotch.

Quotes of the Day

Random quotes from the late afternoon, March 19, 2009.  Nonsense warning!

• Leah: My big girl has a show and it’s called bonkie on the heady and the monster’s name is Jeepie.
• Issac: My big boy has a show and it’s named the bonkie head and it’s a bad monster and it’s a real monster and it’s a bad real dinosaur.
• Leah: My big girl’s birthday she got a chocolate cake and pink frosting.  And when it’s nighttime, she watchted (sic) a show and readed a book with her mom.
• Isaac: My head is popping out.  Come on Ed Binkie, we’re going in my house.
• Leah: Papa, I have to tell you something really short and it’s not long.  Come on, Binkie, I’m going to give you a splinter, bye!
• Issac: Binkie Jones is a good guy and he lives across the street.
• Leah: I had chocolate beads for supper.
• Isaac: My big boy has a show and it’s named “who’s the biggest person”  and it’s wroten by Juney Backa.  That’s his name.
• Isaac:  One grogger is in the Synagogue and one grogger is out of the Synagogue.
• Leah:  One computer is with a Papa skoldekick and the book is wroten by Shoes-n Juno.
• Leah: Lolly Pop Golden was with his two friends and they were wroten by a fish named Skocky Doodle.  And they were caught in a Soap Fish’s mouth.  In the pool where they were swimming there was a big swimming pool and it was really hot.
• Isaac: When everybody was gone, a big, bad monster come and ate food all up.  And everybody was better and he was a sea monster.
• Leah: If I had a left, if I was going to a party, I saw a left.  A lift or a left?  Skonkie Fish is my running Konkadoodle.

Leah thinking up kooky things to say?