cuteness!

[Lady Serendipity]

I thought this was cute, and didn't see a better place to post it:

[as seen here: www.geocities.com/lizzyoflongbourn/fun.html

Ways to Incorporate P&P into your life

Don't you sometimes (all right, often) wish that you could be in Pride and Prejudice? The way they speak, look and act towards each other is so different from our modern society.

Wish no longer! I have compiled a list of things that you can do to trick your brain into thinking that you really are in P&P. *giggle* {Warning: employ these at your own risk. Your non-P&P-loving friends may not find this as amusing as you and I may!}


when someone asks how you're doing, reply, "Capital! Capital!" (British accent optional. If you really are British, better yet!)


when you go shopping with a friend, and they ask your opinion on an item, sniff distainfully and say, "It is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me!".


when a friend confides that he/she has a crush on someone, raise your eyebrows and exclaim, "[Crush's name here]! I am all astonishment. How long has she/he been such a favourite?- and pray, when am I to wish you joy?".


when you're stressed out, complain to the nearest listening ear that, "You do not know what I suffer!".


when you're playing sports with a particularly klutzy person who seems to have trouble differentiating between the free floor and the floor that you are occupying, mutter under your breath, "Other way, Mr. Collins!", (or yell it, if possible).


when a friend is getting a Slurpee, and asks if they should get the red one, shake your head and say, "No, no, the green one."

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[Mme de Beaufort]

It's too bad she's stopped updating the site, it is very cute indeed!

[Miss Ida]

oh lord that was excellent, but i fear it does not work in denmark, my friends might look at me strangely if I just start to speak in english...

[LadyGeremia]

Oh these are classic! You may think me silly, but I HAVE actually done the above to some degree. I work at an elementary school and I had a teacher come up to me one day and complain when they switched to an "online version" of attendance, therefore taking the job away from me, the clerk, and into the hands of the teachers themselves. When it was introduced, the teachers had to take a class and this particular person was so put out that she was required to go to the training. So, anyhow, she is a constant whiner and came to me one day about all the things that she already had to do and to add taking attendance to her already full day (as if it were MY idea to do this). She told me, "Well, if they think I'm going to stop what I'm doing to learn this stupid stuff, they have another thing coming." And my reply to her, with a completely serious face...."That will make your ladyship's position much more pitiable, however it will have no effect on me." The bookkeeper blurted out her laughter and I soon couldn't help join in with her. The teacher gave me this look of utter confusion then stormed off pretty ticked off.
What made it the funniest was that I had just posted that same quote on my profile like 2 days before and I was just showing the website and my profile to our school bookkeeper (who is also a big Regency fan). So it was more of an inside joke between her and I that it was a stab at the teacher, but the timing could not have been more perfect!
I'm happy to report that the teacher has since finished training and is now taking her attendance online daily as required.
So I encourage EVERYONE to use those quotes as often as possible. You never know when it's going to benefit you, give you a good chuckle and confuse the heck out of your opponents.