There is a German in our basement with a blowtorch and other phrases
Posted By Kathleen David on January 4, 2021
The house I grew up in was built in the early 1900s. This has its pluses and minuses. Water temperature was one of them. When we would take a shower, we would announce to the household because one flush of a toilet or faucet running would lead to extreme cold or hot water pouring on the person in the shower. Also water pressure was not the best. My parents had the plumbing redone with copper pipes since the pipes that were there had the equivalent of plaque in the arteries. One of the crew was a German who I believe his name was Hans. My brother Patrick said one day, “In phrases I never thought I would say, there is a German in our basement with a blowtorch.”
When I was the stage manager at Georgia Ensemble Theater, I would take notes from the director and give them to the actors. These were for me so I didn’t write them neatly because I could read them. This lead to an in-joke at the theater. I wrote, “’Sudden Rush’ do the head thing” one of the actors grabbed my notes and started reading them because he could not believe how atrocious my handwriting was so he read it as “Sudder Fusty do me head”. Sudder Fusty because our safe swear around the place.
Around here if you listened to things I say, you might think I was a serial killer.
“Has anyone seen my eyeballs?”
“The bodies stacked up over there.”
“Someone get that arm away from the cat please.”
Then there are things that makes sense within context but sound strange.
“Put down the Dark One’s Dagger. There will be no summoning today.” This was after Caroline grabbed the recreation my brother Sean did for my 50th birthday of the dagger from Once Upon a time.
“Of course the cat is sleeping in the demon trap.” This is a rug we have is a recreation the demon trap symbols from Supernatural.
“Has anyone seen the eye of Agamotto?”
“Which one?”
“Avengers Infinity War version.”
This is because I have several versions of this Doctor Strange prop.
I do something I call heard around the house on my Facebook page where I post these kind of phrases, sometimes with an explanation and most times without.
I am grateful for all the strange phrases that pass my lips.
