He Actually Said…

“Fast is fine. But accuracy is final.”    Wyatt Earp
He actually said;
“Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight, you need to take your time, in a hurry.”

Through the years I’ve developed an ‘ear’ for expressions, interesting and odd things people say. It’s become my hobby. From an old native right off the reserve saying that his girlfriend is so skinny it’s ‘like dancing with a pile of moose antlers’, to an Engineer at NASA saying ‘We don’t do anything very quickly around here’ if it makes me smile I keep it in my several notebooks.

“I’ve met more interesting artichokes.”

“I’d rather rub a cougar’s ass with sandpaper than fight with Bob Probert.” Hockey Player.

“My hockey team looked like a Work-Release Program.”

“People talk slowly to him.”

“You ride the tiger, you might end up inside it.”

“He sounds like a Wizard, casting a spell at Hogwarts.”

“She sucked me into her nothing life.”   A little bitter maybe?

“Like pouring gravy on a salad.”

“You don’t dance like Michael Jackson you know. You dancing looks more like some pissed-off rooster.”

I got notebooks upon notebooks just full of these sayings. One day I’m going to put them all together in a story.

And finally…

“He’s so stupid he’d make a snow angel in a dog-park.”