As we work through our ten month in Americorps*NCCC, our team has gotten to know eachother pretty well. As a result, we have some pretty wacky conversations every now and then, and occasionally, someone comes out with a gem that just has to be written down. Below are the funniest, most interesting, or otherwise memorable quotes to have come from the mouths of Gold 4:

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Hillary: "No one can give you wisdom. You must discover it for yourself, on the journey through life, which no one can take from you."

Chris to Jesse: "Did you put a limb through your ear?"

Hillary to Jen: "Hey there, Swamp Thing" after digging in the mud.

Vicky to Jen after Jen's burp outburst: "It sounded like a beast."

Mitch from Ferncliff (Making a flowerbed): "Flowers are beautiful, but crap's gotta flow too."

Jessica's comment on walking to the air pump while everyone else drives over in the van: "It's all a plot to leave me here."

Randy Frazier: "Are you engaged in the business of life or the busy-ness of it?"

"Tyrone, eat yo chicken, Tyrone," Amelia, referring to what she hears at home from the neighbor.

"Oh, I wish I could just pick up one of those ducks." - Vicky. Channing's reply: "Vicky, they have scabies."

"I'm headed to the guillotine!" Jesse imitating Vicky's perpetual skip.

"They told me to keep it elevated" - Kristen referring to her 'elevated' middle finger

"Why, she just pulled a knife on her little brother last week." -Arkansas mother talking about her 'tough' little girl.

Kincadisms:

"Man . . ."
"I would freak the Big One"
"What happened Jesse, you put a limb through your ear or something?"
"There are just a whole bunch of rednecks in Arkansas . . . me included," (As he spit out a wad of chew)
"I was so wound up I couldn't even tee-tee" (Comment on having to take a drug test)
"Don't be pullin' any of that Tailhook shit on me, Jen" (After he accidentally grabbed her knee instead of the gear shift in The Gator)
"Listen here you lazy freak, go pick yourself up a pick-axe and get to work," (What Chris would love to say to hikers with stupid comments)

Jim:

"With our self and with others, we can be a destroyer of a builder of bridges."
"We sure are providing the Japs with a lot of money today." (Referring to all our cameras)
"Eeh Yah!" (Jim's best Jackie Chan impersonation)
"Buenos Dias Amigos," (Jim's welcome to us in a John Wayne Accent every morning)

"You'll be an easy target for a smack-down" - Amelia, after Jen had told her she was an easy scare target)

"Get in my belly!" - Jesse

"Yes, over there is the rare hoop-snake; it puts its tail in its mouth and rolls down the hillside." - Channing, stretching Chris' joke about annoying hikers

"Anna, what age group is that for?" - Kristen, asking Anna about her #1-6 connect the dots workbook

"God, what is that? Turn that crap off . . ." - Liz, Jen, Vicky and Hillary in unison when the alarm clock went off

"We'll be saying a lot of that today." - Hillary, referring to "God bless you," after ten people had sneezed in the visitor center basement/dust pit.

"You know she was getting all liquored up last night and sloshed some into the beans" - Hil, referring to the alcoholic taste of the beans at Vicky Gill's house

"Maybe we can work on their flower beds or something." - Channing on how to get into Graceland for free

"For the love of . . ." - Jen, every time she got lost in Little Rock

"I'm just here for the ride," - Vicky defending herself in the shotgun seat in the van.

"What's up, Chubbs?" - Jen to Kristen's dangling work glove on her hand, resembling Chubb's wooden hand in Happy Gilmore

"Future alcoholic." - Channing, on a little boy who fell on the trail and whose only concern was the water coming out of his bottle.

Sea Island habitat for Humanity:

"I've worked for habitat before . . . I've been in construction . ." general cry of Gold 4 when asked if they had building experience. Vicky's reply: "I built a birdhouse once."

Channing on why he is still alive in the Assassin game: "I guess no one wants to touch me."

"Who has the helium laugh?" --Vicky referring to Amelia's breathless laughter.

"Going from rock to wood is a big step." Channing: "Get it?"

Art to Anna after she had poured water into her mouth and let it dribble down her shirt: "I can't wait to write to the church to tell them about the wet T-shirt contest."

"Don tried to cut his off - you're trying to freeze yours."

Patrick to Anna trying to hook the sting line. "I can't get it hooked. Oh wait, I hooked it." Anna: "Ha ha, now you're a hooker."

"One time, on the Tortoise . . ." -- Vicky

Anna: "I'm just dusting myself off." As she was whisking the dew from her lily.

Channing, referring to the way Jesse likes the big college girls: "Shade in the summer and warmth in the winter."

Kristen talking to Don, referring to Pat. K: "You don't listen to what he says do you?" D: "No, that frequency doesn't come in."

"Can I borrow a hoe from someone?" -- Thomas

"Vicky, you always look like someone who just smoked a joint." -- Art

"I hate it when you and dad fight!" --Channing, breaking into Jesse and Anna's screaming match

"I think PT will be easy from now on 'cause we all think we're the Bo Jackson's of AmeriCorps." -- Jen

"They didn't treat us like the National Civilian Comfort Corps." -- Channing, referring to SIHH folk using us as assistant grunts.

As Kristen shared her childhood memories of playing check-out girl, bus driver, Channing asked: "So is Pleasantville a lot like Sesame Street?"

Construction dude to Jessica - "Hey, Patti Labelle! Lunchtime!"

"Teach you to like Bonnie Raitt!!" --Channing

Pat: "Yeah, um, move the wheelbarrows, and then, yeah, clean up this cardboard . . . you can move it all over . . . um, no, if you can move it to . . . um, yeah . . ."
Channing:"Yeah, why don't you contradict yourself in your head a few times first and then we'll come back?"
Pat: "Um . . . okay . . . I'll do that."

Eric to Channing: "Have you been taking your medication?"

Howard Stern: "I need more time for reflection."

Channing: "Roll down the windows, Jen."
Jen: "What's the magic word?"
Channing: "Dog shit."

"I'll meet you by the pool, Buffy" -- Jesse

"Don't worry Vicky, there will be plenty of grass out there for you to eat." -- Art

"Ladder . . . somebody help her." -- Jen when Amelia lost the ladder

"Screw you, you Bitch" Howard Stern, to Dr. Laura


South Cumberland State Park:

Vicky, defending her use of a toenail as a backscratcher on Anna's back:
"What, it's just thick dead skin."

Jesse: "Are we there yet?"
Channing: "Yes. Get out."

"It's on my sac!"
Jesse referring to the Luna moth that landed on his package

"I don't know why you would be embarassed to buy that vile when you bought those teeth."
Hillary to Jen

Jen to Lamar: "Where have you been all my life?"
Lamar to Jen: "Right here in Tennessee."

"Henesty and integrity will get you nowhere." John Christoff "I really didn't even know I actually had a brain until college."
Jen, who then proceeded to stand up and thump her head on a branch above.

"Ditka" The Gold 4 answer to every trivia question.

"Are you sure it was his butt?
Bill when made to shake his butt like George Michael when playing the Pop-Video game

Channing: "It's a beautiful miracle anytime a woman touches my body."

Hillary: "I think it's a curse to be a Kennedy . . . you're gonna die no matter what."
Channing "Oh, thanks."

"Her own feces."
Channing's response to the trivia question 'What does Rosie O'Donnell throw into the crowd?"

"Just Why I'm So Damn Good."
The name of Ranger Bill's soon to be released autobiography.

Hillary "I think Kristen wants to drive a Monster Truck.

JW Corbett Wildlife Management Area:

"It looks like the welcoming committee has arrived"
Liz, referring to the 8 turkey vultures which greeted us at camp

"Good lord, it's like a huge bowl of Grapenuts . . . You just chew and chew and you still don't make a dent!"
Jen, referring to the endless amounts of Brazilian Peppers

"Break it, you buy it."
Channing ot Jen as she was looking at the stuffed aligator

"If we all get our tongues pierced we can have a big tickle party."
Vicky

"It's the hoooo train!"
Jesse, when all the girls jumped into the van in their hoochie gear for a night out downtown.

"Garlan . . ."
Amelia's imitation of how Dottie pronounces the poison used on the exotics.

"Of course, the olives were stuffed with cocaine."
Channing to Jesica's story of how the airlines saved $40,000 by doing without one olive per meal.

While talking about how adjusted we have become to killing trees . . .
"I actually heard Vicky whistling while using the machete." - Thomas

"This is a message from Don Corleone . . ."
Jesse, when he and Jen came across the dead deer laying in the back porch of the kitchen

"Oh my God Anna . . . Burn that!!!" "It's a boy!"
Channing after the jaw bone was popped out of the deer's mouth at Check Station training.

Thomas about Vicky after graduation i.e. no rules . . .
"God, she won't even remember her name for a month."

Truck names:
"Toyota on steroids"
"Bambi's worst nightmare"

Camilla, Georgia


"She just wants her chicken."
Channing referring to the fat, impatient volumteer who was in such a hurry to get to breakfast.

"I had a dream that our next spike was at Circuit City."
Vicky

Why would I spend $7.00 so see a movie about girls with titties bout see no actual titties?" - Thomas
"I don't have to spend $7.00 to see titties 'cause I have a pair." - Hillary
"Yeah, that's fair." - Channing

"Was that the talent Carter was talking about?"
Vicky, when she burped in perfect timing between a break in Liz's music.

"HQ to the rescue."
Nickname for the same volunteer who wanted her breakfast, Habitat Queen

Hope Haven, Mississippi

"What, does Jesse have cramps too?" Vicky, after another daily van dispensing of aspirin

"Hey look - there's train tracks for us to play on." - Jesse

"That was the weirdest pain ever" Hill after Jesse beat her

"Holy God" Channing after seeing a frony yard with 300 decorations

"All this talk about muppets is making me sentimental . . . Bring me my Ether." Channing

"Shingles, hammer, broom, Team leader" Channing, while warning people down below what he was throwing off the room

Jesse: "Anna, what station did you put the radio on?"
Thomas: "WSUK"

Jen - I think I've managed to mature a little this year."
Jessica - "God, what does that mean for the rest of us?"
Liz replies with a mound of cake stuck to her front teeth in 'Jen' fashion. "The rest of us have regressed."

"Shut up, homeless" Anna to Vicky

During team meeting kudos session:
Chan: Kudos to Tom for Putting his clothes in the closet"
Vicky: Kudos to Hillary for being such a sweet roommate
Anna: Kudos to Liz for moving out

Vicky to Chan: Do you want my lower half?

Local radio station:
Caller complaining to DJ about a billboard: Who's your supervisor?
DJ: Your mama!

Jesse, venting after a frustrating day of work - "I could have stuck my thumb up my ass for a day and goten more accomplished." Channing - My grandfather used to be a plumber back in the day.
Vicky - What, you mean they don't have plumbers anymore?
Channing - No, I mean he's dead.

Channing after Robert referred to him as an Ethiopian: "How's that new truck doing, Robert?"

Jen to Hill, offering her popcorn at the Hockey game: "Oh, go ahead, it'll put hair on your chest."

Hil: "More where that came from." Channing on the nasty mascot at game: "It looks like Elmo's drunk stepfather."

Vicky - "Oh my god, what if I have to wear a we suit? I've got more rolls than a bakery."

Channing after Thomas dumped water on Cocoa, the nasty neighborhood mutt: "Oh god, it's going to dissolve."

"Come on buddy . . . come back." Jesse as he tried to sweet talk his package to its natural state after being in the cold too long.

Liz - See, I knew there was a reason I carry around all these pens. Jen - Seriously, you're the Imelda marcos of writing utensils

Terry - "What a day . . . Robert gets a raise and you guys get bread and water from now on."

Vicky after Amelia hit her - "Ah, you just gave me a karate chop right through the lips."

Jeff Biel's nickname for Vicky : "Drifty"

Vicky to Jen in van: "Hey Jiz . . ."

Vicky to Hill: You're hairy . . . uh, on your sweater.
Hill: You're a loose bitch. Uh, in your crotch.

"Oops, I crapped my pants" - Jesse, after pulling the fan out of the mud.

New Orleans:

Amelia while walking in Jackson square "Ohh . . . I can't wait to get home - ohh, (Spots a homeless man) he doesn't have a home."

Street actor to little boy who puts a dollar in his box: "Hey, thanks little buddy, now go back and ask mommy for some more."

Random guy thanking Jen for picking up a broken piece of his kid's stroller - "Thanks - I thought that was the baby"

"It's all in the hips, it's all in the hips" - Jesse coaching Jen in pool

"See . . . Blind faith doesn't work." Chan after he walked into the corkboard of religious relics, knocking it down.

"Chief Raging Dork" Thomas giving Jesse his Indian name

Liz, on how Bill never smiles for the camera: "I think he's just self-conscious about his teeth. The boy does have some crazy ones."

Chan to Anna in van: "Ya know Anna, not all the scabbies of the world revolve around you."

Hill to Anna - "Hate to spoil the end for you, but he eventually eats the green eggs and ham."

Jen: "Hey, looks like all the hunters are out today."
Channing: "No, it's really a gang. They ran out of colors. Midwest side!"

Jessica to Terry: "Watch out for your eyeballs."
Amelia to Terry: "Watch out for your balls."

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