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Lexicon: "Look! A leaf!"
Nov. 16th, 2008 07:20 pm"Look! A leaf!"
For lexicon purposes, usually an illustration of how distractible one may get: "Have you done the dishes yet?" "Look! A leaf!" -- meaning, "I meant to, but I got distracted!"
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I remember this as coming from the OC Weekly, in a piece about the struggles to get ferrets to be legal pets in the state of California. I can find this article in their archives, but the phrase only occurs in the headline, not the body of the text. I remember a longer item.
Searching about, I can find this archive of the "Internet Oracle" that comes more closely to what I remember. I've edited it down to be ferret-specific:
What does a ferret think about its owner?
Ferret: The ferret will see you and the couch--- and there's food in the dish! and I gotta go to the bath--- Woah! Look! A leaf! Holy smokes, what is that light on the floor? Man, this sofa looks very tasty! *bonk* OUCH! Why can't I go through this spot? I can see right through it! Look! Another leaf!
For lexicon purposes, usually an illustration of how distractible one may get: "Have you done the dishes yet?" "Look! A leaf!" -- meaning, "I meant to, but I got distracted!"
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I remember this as coming from the OC Weekly, in a piece about the struggles to get ferrets to be legal pets in the state of California. I can find this article in their archives, but the phrase only occurs in the headline, not the body of the text. I remember a longer item.
Searching about, I can find this archive of the "Internet Oracle" that comes more closely to what I remember. I've edited it down to be ferret-specific:
What does a ferret think about its owner?
Ferret: The ferret will see you and the couch--- and there's food in the dish! and I gotta go to the bath--- Woah! Look! A leaf! Holy smokes, what is that light on the floor? Man, this sofa looks very tasty! *bonk* OUCH! Why can't I go through this spot? I can see right through it! Look! Another leaf!
