Um... is there some (sum?) sort of trend here?

Personless shoe waiting for a bus by flickr user Paranoid from suffolk

Brett: Do you like rum?

Lori: Um... I like it in my long islands.  Does that count?

Brett: Sure!  As long as you don't drink too many.  Those things are strong; you don't want to be hung over and have your head pounding like a drum the next day.

Lori: Oh, totally.  They sneak up on me really fast.  Don't want to end up looking like a bum on the bus who lost her shoes somewhere.

Get down, turn around, go to town

Boot Scootin' Boogie? by flickr user Michael Chunko

Lori: Can you boot scoot?

Brett: I can boot scoot with the best of them.  But it really works up a sweat, and I need to towel off when I'm done.

Lori: Bet that really sweeps the ladies off their feet.

Brett: Oh, it brings all the girls to ALL the yards.

Lori: Haha.  Jackie and Jill went to the yard to watch Brett boot scoot.  Not quite the same ring, eh?

Brett: It works, though.  Then I say "ahoy, lasses!" but for some reason they don't respond to that.  Maybe I should try "yo yo yo, what's up ladies?"

Lori: I love it.  Though I think we might make the worst hip hop remixers ever.

Hidden talents

Fractalius - Dove in flight by flickr user Bahman Farzad

Brett: Can you coo like a dove?

Lori: Heck yes, I can!  How did you know?

Brett: It just seemed like something you could probably do.  And if the shoe fits...

Reliant is not a synonym for reliable

Plymouth Reliant K by flickr user John

Brett: For years I thought the Barenaked Ladies were using non-standard word choice (poetic license and all) to say that a K-car was a reliable automobile.  Then I realized that the Plymouth Reliant was one of the so-called K-cars, so the lyric was referring to the model; a nice Reliant (proper noun, not adjective) automobile.

Lori: I do not know what song you are talking about.

Brett: Apparently you've never been at a karaoke night where Scott and I have sung together.  The song, of course, is "If I Had a Million Dollars."

In case of emergency, your exits are here, here, and here

emergency exit by flickr user Terry Freedman

Brett: Do you know where the emergency exits in your office are?

Lori: Memorized.  We have so many false alarm fire drills, tick tock like clockwork twice a month.  And it's been coooooold lately, haha.

The Big Game

Boone watches Puppy Bowl by flickr user Kris Millering

Brett: Did you watch the Super Bowl?  Or did you watch the dogs in the Puppy Bowl?

Lori: Ha... Puppy Bowl all the way.  Once the Chiefs were out, I lost interest this season.

Brett: That's too bad.  There might have been a Super Bowl ad that made you want to go buy something.

Lori: Oh!  I'm glad I didn't watch then.  I'm so broke right now.  Holding my breath for my tax refund to come in.

Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme...

Brett ready to ride the bobsled

Brett: The Winter Olympics are coming up... Have I ever told you how much I love Cool Runnings?  I can basically quote the whole movie.  One of my favorite lines is when Sanka finds out that bobsled is a winter sport.  "You mean winter as in igloos and Eskimos and penguins and ice?"

Lori: How long is the bobsled track, do you know?  Is it more or less than a mile?

Brett: I don't know exactly, but I'm going to guess less.  Did you know I was in a bobsled once?  It was summer, so it was on wheels instead of on ice.  And we didn't get to do the push start, we just had to sit inside while they pushed us.  But it got going pretty fast when we picked up speed, and was a lot of fun!

Lori: I'd say, "poor you"... But what a cool experience!!!  How did you manage that?

Brett: Well, it wasn't that I got any sort of special treatment, I fear.  I paid for the chance to ride the boblsed just like anyone else.

Lori: That's okay.  It's still the bees knees.