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“I believe it went like this—and stop me if I’m wrong, Mousey: ‘Listen, we may not be our own continent and everything, but we have a big country over in America too.”
“So you went back to your friend’s next donkament two weeks later, and this time you just laughed right along when they gave you that framed picture of the poker hands. And when they called you ‘pig...”
“Alice? You didn’t get this far without realizing that you don’t have to cheat to win. You just have to accept that people are easily manipulated.”
“No thanks…Dodo, was it? I don’t know if I can watch you have performance problems twice in ten days.”
“For the first time, there’s no barrier between us and we make eye contact. All of a sudden, I feel like the character in Raiders of the Lost Ark—the one who watches in horror as the wispy, beautifu...”
“I’ll get you and your little dog too?’ You say your girl can’t pay me back? Believe me when I say that that little gift’s just gonna keep right on giving.”
“The car doesn’t so much drive as float above the road, like we’re making our way to Sydney in a hovercraft.”
“When some smart ass asks you if you’re driving, you say, 'Nope, just kicking the tires.’ You have to make sure you actually kick them all on your way around to the passenger side. Otherwise it’s li...”
“If one more person tells me how big this country is, I’m going to go kick a koala.”
“How was I supposed to know ‘lucked out’ means ‘I got screwed over’ in Australian?”
“Yeah, well, when they say ‘You know it’s a long way, don’t you?’ what they really mean is: ‘You know it’d be faster if you just rode a kangaroo, don’t you?”
“...once I realized that Australia’s top highway speed of 110 kilometers per hour was the same as going 65 in the U.S., all my hardened American enthusiasm for speed went limp until it felt like the...”
“Congratulations, Mousey, you’ve managed to insult every marsupial in the country in just under three kilometers.”
“I don’t know what this is for anyway. I mean, let me tell you what I’m never going to say to any human being, ever: ‘I had hunting season off-suit in the pocket, but I've had kicker trouble with th...”
“Seriously, what is the purpose? Maybe I’d feel better about walking around speaking fluent jive if I knew there was a reason for it.”
“I like it because when people use a lot of poker lingo, it usually means they’ve been playing the game for a while. Which is why I immediately avoid those people.”
“So ‘fatal’ only kills you two out of three times these days? That’s good to know.”
“I’m good at being vague and unpredictable. It’s sort of a hard habit to break.”
“Oh, I have plenty of problems with Rabbit, it’s just that my comfort level with his name is standing in line behind about a hundred more important things.”
“I don’t think Australians ever use a couple of words when twenty will do just fine.”
