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Amusing quotes:

__After having won an argument with Co-worker B regarding the use of semi-colons, Co-worker A says "Yes, you just go back to work, drinking your coffee," to which Co-worker B replies: "Actually, I'm drinking hot chocolate... semi-colon I felt like a change."

__Danielle before she realised what she had just said: "I don't think Americans are exposed to a lot of Irish people,"

__Carleigh, on being told to be beware of neighbourhood perverts: "But I *AM* the neighbourhood pervert..."

__Judy on NOT wanting to be attracted to girls you are very physically attracted to: "If she has a personality [as well], you're screwed!"

__Dad: "She's a pretty lady, but no finesse whatsoever."

__Mum, while waiting with me at a busy train station: "Wow, you really are a giant compared to these Japanese girls,"

__Tiffany, on.. I forget: "I don't eat the weak, just the vindictive."

__Carleigh, while playing Godfather on XBOX: "I'm in love with my character. Gawd I'm good looking!"

__Overnight bus driver: [In Japanese] "For your convenience, there is a toilet located at the rear of the bus. We request that, if possible, passengers limit their use of the facilities to urination only."

__Japanese guy that has travelled around Europe and Asia, upon finding out where I'm from: [in Japanese] "So, are there no people with blonde hair in New Zealand?"

__Nandy, on Carleigh's downloading of Weird Al Yankovich's album: "I may be forced to re-evaluate our whole friendship."

__Mr. K & M - two Japanese dudes in their sixties and forties, respectively
Mr. K: "I've been to Europe before, but I prefer traveling around Asia."
Mr. M: "That's because you like Asian girls, isn't it.."
Mr. K: "No, it's because I like soy sauce."

__Mai: "I'd like to be a cleaner for a large office. It'd be so much fun getting up to no good.. like swapping people's signature stamps, carving messages into the back of leaves.."

__Chris, upon entering a Haagen Dazs store in Osaka with his 2 male friends: "Whoa, why are there only girls in here?"

__The Jude Law-obsessed Lea after reading about his affair with the nanny: "Ooh I wonder if there's a new vacancy for the nanny's position?"

__Sini: "Well, I'd better go and check on my bacteria."

__Mapi: "聴いてる？！ ("Are you listening to me??")"

__[ How NOT to win an argument, by Carleigh ]
Anand: "I think you're wrong."
Carleigh: "I think you're right."