Anyone who knew the AIESEC SFU exec teams knows the ubiquity of the email quote footer. We used them to advertise AIESEC and events, represent our personalities, inspire others. I am actually not a big fan of quotes (my email footer was just my VP title and contact info). I suck at quotes! You know how people watch a movie or TV show once and are able to regurgitate the dialogue, ad verbatim? I am the polar opposite of that. I can barely remember the context let alone the sentence structure. You can see my extreme suckiness whenever I try to deliver a joke.

Well this week, I found that rare quote that I feel strongly enough to put in an email footer. Now that I’m gung-ho back into dancing, I think it’s apt.

“…Don’t forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did…backwards and in high heels.”

It’s originally from a 1982 Frank and Ernest cartoon (artist — Bob Thaves):

Here are some other stupid quotes that came out of my mouth today.

“Buy me a chew toy!”
–after I hurt Kurt by gnawing on his forearm…again

“But olives is a vegetable…”
–after I screwed up by lining the waffle iron with olive oil, not vegetable (canola?) oil

“Argh!…That’s impossible to do in that many keystrokes!!”
–getting frustrated that the guy in Revenge of the Nerds created a 20 second line animation “on the fly”…on an ’80s computer with less than a hundred keystrokes (I’m a nerd, why do you think I was watching this?)

PS: I had to ask Kurt to remind me of what I said word-for-word, to be able to write it here. Bah.