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I'm proud to take credit for starting the quote boards.

When I lived in a townhouse with six roommates my sophomore year of college, I started to document random things people said. Then I decided that these random things needed to be made public, so I wrote them on index cards or scraps of paper and thumbtacked them to the wall outside my bedroom.

Thus the quote board began.

I wish I could remember the contents of that early quote board. The only one I can recall is a quote from our fashion-impaired friend Charles, who at the age of 19 was wearing shirts that had a banded bottom like my dad wears. He was discussing his shopping philosophy with us one day when he said the following:

Fifty bucks a year and I dress like a prince.

That quote just makes me happy inside. It's so right. It's like, the charter quote.

You're pretty sassy for someone with some stopped-up toilets.
~Ericka to Colleen when both of her toilets failed during my bachelorette party

During my junior year in college, several walls of the townhouse were covered in poster board with additions spreading into the kitchen and up the stairs. I didn't live in the townhouse that year, so I can't recall any of the quotes for you. But this was an important year in the quote board's history, as this is the year it became a well-known staple of any house in which my friends and I lived. You knew that if you said something stupid or weird, it could possibly end up hanging on our wall for all to admire.

When my senior year arrived, we worked the quote boards into the decor of our apartment before we even moved in. Several posterboards were given prime real estate on our walls, and soon enough the following gems emerged:

Oates is sooooo sorry.
~Ericka

Something just flew out of my nose and I can't find it.
~Sue

Someone on Mtv: "Sting's real name is Gordon Sumner."
Midge (to herself): "ALF's real name is Gordon."

Amy, in a hungover stupor while reading the comics: "Today is the day I skip 'Hi & Lois.'"

After college, quote boards followed me around to various events: bachelorette parties, Fiesta Days, weddings, etc. Andy and I are thinking of putting up a web page for them, starting with these two:

Do you want me to show you a picture of a woman with a goiter?
~Amy

I thought I'd hit her. Then I thought I'd strip her of all her clothes and throw her in the bedroom.
~My mom when asked what she would be doing to entertain my visiting niece that night.

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