Archive for Funny things Peter said
Sometime in the 1970s, Peter took some classes in data processing, and started to do computer work. One of his first computer jobs was working for the San Francisco school district. I think we were still living in Cotati at that point; I think the later move to Palo Alto was because Peter got a […]
I was eating some asparagus just now and it reminded me of a joke Peter used to tell. It went something like this: This woman was at a dinner party, and there was a platter of asparagus being passed around the table. When it got to her, she very carefully cut off all of the […]
I posted this in my main blog about five years ago, but it just occurred to me that I ought to repost it here: Peter used to occasionally explain that various things worked by means of “FM.” I would ask, “What’s that?” He would reply: “Fuckin’ magic!””
A chance comment this evening reminded me that Peter used to refer to holding hands as “premarital interdigitation.” I see by a quick web search that he was not the only person to say that, but I think he was the only person I ever actually heard say it. And that indirectly reminds me that […]
This is a letter that was on Peter’s computer’s hard drive. I assume that he actually mailed it; it would not have been out of character. I’ve tried to reproduce the formatting of the original, which was mostly ordinary, with a couple of exceptions. January 12, 2004 To Whom It May Concern: Today at 10:51, […]
On looking through some old files, I found a file from mid-1989 titled “peter.anecdotes.” He must have sent me these notes in email at some point (see a forthcoming entry about Peter and email), but I don’t know exactly when (probably early ’89), and I’m not sure whether these three paragraphs were all in the […]
When I was a kid, at one point my school sent home a form that asked for various bits of info about the kid’s home life. One of the blanks on the form asked for a list of the languages that were spoken in the child’s home. Peter wrote: “English and Gibberish.” (I don’t actually […]
When I was in my early teens, Brother Peter sort of told me a joke. That is, he asked me a question and would not tell the punch line to this joke for many years, after I “gave up” and nearly begged him for the answer. He referred to this as a “Time Joke”, and […]
I remember Peter had a (humorous) phrase he used, often, in the later Tacoma years, anyway… He would say, “Good judgment comes from experience, and often, experience comes from bad judgment.”, or something like that, and then he completed it, with the syllogistic punchline eluding me! If you remember Peter using this phrase, PLEASE take […]