Soaka Tha Turtle

This weekend Bob made another entrance. He walked all around the house sniffing our cement floors every several steps. When I noticed that Bob was leaving behind a pile of dirt every time he laid down, Husband mentioned that he had read somewhere on the Internet that you're supposed to soak your turtle every once and a while. Which led to us saying "soaka the turtle" in very bad Italian accents stolen directly from the SNL sketch in which Jimmy Fallon (swoon) and (who cares who else cause it was Jimmy Fallon) were wine makers and they kept telling Janet Jackson that they had to "Soaka the cork".

We do this a lot, Husband and I. Talk in strange voices and possibly offensive accents to one another. Sometimes we have entire conversations that are actually dialogue from a movie or TV show. Usually The Big Lebowski and The Office. We do this even in public (well, not the possibly offensive accents part), and have gotten some interesting looks in line at Kroger. But it gets really interesting at home, particularly when we've been drinking. We've talked about how if there was a hidden camera in our house and the tape was leaked to a psychologist we would promptly be committed against our will. So our code word for ending these bouts of being complete dorks is "committed, solidly."

I started talking this way in high school with my brother. My Junior and Senior years we would stay up late into the night and watch really bad movies on TNT. It was SO MUCH FUN, and I credit those movies with bringing my brother and I into our adult brother/sister relationship, and with engraining in my psyche a love of all bad cheesy movies.

Some Quotables:
Drop Dead Fred
The Warriors
Repo Man
Pod People
The Big Lebowski (although not bad or cheesy still very quotable)
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (same thing)
French Kiss