eggcorns and other homophones

• along a corridor and up a flight of stares




• had segwayed onto a different topic

[This is a fairly common one, but I still laugh every time.]



• murdered by a hoard




• "I. Am. Gay." He annunciated.

[Ugh, I was saving this one for like SIX MONTHS to post on Ascension Day and I just forgot about it by less than a week. So rude.]



• could smell something unimaginably fowl from inside




• in the throws of passion

oooOOOOooo!! is how Wax actually reacts to unexpected tea but it has the tone

I realized yesterday that Wax's reaction when I bring her tea without asking first if she wanted tea is similar to the "Yes... ha ha ha yes!" meme.



This is an apposite time to note that for her birthday 12 days ago I got her a new teacup though. The tall mug is part of a recent reissue of Marianne Westman's iconic Swedish midcentury "Mon Amie" service for Rörstrand.



We have a set of teacups inherited from one of Wax's grandmothers, but they're dainty and delicate ones like this:


Mon Amie doesn't really go with our primary dishes, Iittala Teema in turquoise, but we both love it way more than the mug and bowl alternatives (Teema doesn't include serving bowls and the mugs are too small for daily use). We have a handful of red and blue Taika mugs like in the cartoon up there inherited from Wax's mom (the white one is ours), but they don't satisfy my wishes for dish-matching either and I plan to eventually get around to selling them on the Finnish equivalent of Craigslist. (They are the right size, though.)