l'esprit d'escalier

Thursday, May 25, 2006

my new favorite quote

“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love
with a gorgeous redhead.”

-Lucille Ball

posted by AuntT @ 5/25/2006 08:01:00 PM

the thing you wish you'd said

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Nice

Naughty

Max it out, we dare ya!

For your edification

"L’esprit d’escalier" doesn’t really have a phrase with the same meaning in English, but the literal translation is “the wit of the stairs.” It is when you have just walked away from an argument or discussion where you’ve been kind of shocked or stumped, then you think of the perfect thing that you didn’t say, but it is too late; your wit didn't catch up to you until you were already on the stairs.