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Junkyard Quotes 6-10, Week 2

"Taking a break from being unstoppable."
This line is from the show "Eastbound & Down," which is starting a second season soon on HBO, though I just discovered it a few days ago. The humor is crude and the show is somewhat a documentary style like "The Office."

"I'm gonna stab you in the...life."
A gem of a quote from one of my friends. I've noticed my friends get funnier as the night goes on.

"They don't have the balls to be loyal."
My friend Chuck said this in reference to people that we marched with this past summer that complained that the group sucked, and then went on to other corps, not realizing that the corps will never get better until people decide to stick around for more than one season.

"The boss called us backs—our animal use—
and I was a back in the grey Navy town."
A line from the poem "Last Day at Mayflower" by Eliot Khalil Wilson. I picked this line out of the whole poem just because of the phrase "backs," but I love the whole poem.

"Victoria's Secret should make underwear for men. I appreciate cute underwear. They'd make a killing."
This is a statement I make everytime I past the store in a mall. I can't believe they don't make nice underwear for men. I hate how our underwear either come in generic, expensive packs or expensive singles. A girl can buy 5 pairs of multiple patterns, colors, and materials for 25. That should be illegal.

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