Counting to 10

I don't know why we're actually trying to teach the little guy to count at this point. He's only 15 months and his vocabulary, while expanding rapidly, still consists mostly of excited squeals and incomprehensible babbling. Maybe as lawyers, hubby and I enjoy exercises in futility. Then again, maybe it's just because it's too damn funny looking at his face as he gives me the "I am NOT saying that mom" look. You know the one. You've given it to your parents before.


Today we're going to count to 10 using quotes from tv and movies because, let's face it, I'm fried and it's easier to use someone else's words instead of my own this week.



"I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!" (Dr. Evil in Austin Powers)



Violet: I don't mean to press my luck but would you mind telling me why you hired me?
Lil: Because, um, the average male is walking around with a toddler in his pants, a 2 year old right in his dockers.

(Coyote Ugly)

"I don't know how to tell ya this, Cyrus, but we are three white guys short. Or as they say in Ebonics, we be fucked." (Pinball in Con Air)

Chaucer: And one and two and three and four and your hands should be light like a birdie on a branch. And one and two and three and four you can hit me all day cause you punch like a...what?
Roland: A girl!

(A Knight's Tale)

"Very bad indeed. Blue are outselling me five to one. But I'm hoping for a late surge. And if I reach number one, I promise to sing the song stark naked on TV on Christmas Eve."

(Billy Mack in Love Actually)

"Right now, some lucky bastard's headed for the Pacific , get put on some tropical island, surrounded by six naked native girls, helping him cut up coconuts so he can hand feed them to the flamingos."

(Warren Muck in Band of Brothers)

Patrick: Well, I'll take you to places you've never been before.
Kat: Like where? The 7-11 on Broadway?

(10 Things I Hate About You)

"Jerry, d'you know the human head weighs eight pounds?"

(Ray in Jerry Maguire)

"Jersey is an island. It's nine miles by five. And if you drive *very* slowly, you can take a whole hour to go right around it. But when you get back, there's still the same old restaurants and bars, discos and boutiques. Same sad faces waiting to be faced. Jersey is some kind of prison."

(Detective Sgt. Jim Bergerac in Bergerac)

Inigo Montoya: We're in a terrible rush
Miracle Max: Don't rush me, sonny. You rush a miracle man, you get rotTEN miracles.

(The Princess Bride)

Hope you enjoyed today's counting lesson, movie style. Today's Theme Thursday was brought to you by the number 10.