epithets.....who knew?

So you've heard the phrase "dirty old man". I knew that the "dirty" part is an epithet. I don't actually remember learning the definition of epithet but if anyone had asked I would have said it was a slur against someone. ie...two-faced.

However, did you know that "Alexander the Great" is also an epithet?

Turns out an epithet is just a word that is used to describe someone or something and can clearly be either positive or negative.

Couple of rules: it is always a metaphor (never a simile) and ancient epic poetry (think Homer) is full of epithets.

It can even be a stand alone comment: ie...."Swine" (Miss Hannigan to Mr Warbucks -- this could've been a "who said it?")

It's going to take me a while to get used to the idea that calling someone a "peacemaker" is indeed an epithet.

Who said it #23

"I'm just kiddin'. She jus' likes me for my body."

Who said it #22

For my Who said it post this week I'm going to do a series of quotes. Every time this Father and Son interact it makes me laugh.

Son: I'm sorry, Father, but the truth is, this is not my day for talking seriously.
Father: Well, what do you mean, sir?
Son: I mean that I only talk seriously on the first Tuesday of every month. Between noon and three.

Father: What are you doing here, sir? Wasting your time, as usual?
Son: My dear father, when one pays a visit, it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time and not one's own.

Father: I don't know how you stand society. A lot of d%#*d nobodies talking about nothing.
Son: I love talking about nothing, Father. It's the only thing I know anything about.

Son: There's somebody I want you to talk to.
Father: What about?
Son: About me, sir.
Father: Not a subject on which much eloquence is possible

Father: Married yet?
Son: Ask me again in half an hour

Son: (to a statue) It is a great nuisance. I can't find anyone else to talk to. I'm so full of interesting information, I feel like the latest edition of something or other. Well, after some consideration... so much to do, there's only one thing to be done. There comes a time in every son's life when he must, indeed, follow his father's advice: I shall go to bed at once.

Point's for naming the movie, characters, or actors

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...

yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like his shirt and flip flops
blue his eyes with a blue pair of glasses
and a blue bike
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around






The boys love singing this song and watching the video on you tube. Yesterday I noticed how much blue Andrew had on and starting singing the song to him. He pointed out that he has a blue bike too and then refused to stand still for a picture!

Who said it #21

"Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!"

Who said it #20?

"Death comes unexpectedly!"