Things I’ve said, or friends have said at work lately.

1. Where did I put my lady belly?
2. Catch the fish eyes!
3. How many bird kebabs do you want?
4. I think the crocodile is going to eat us alive
5. My skull is supposed to arrive tomorrow.
6. RiteAid is the mother-lode of Emilys
7. I’ve lost my arm
8. Go ahead, put your finger inside. It’s really good. So snug and smooth.
9. His rod isn’t stiff enough.
10. The logical way to get vaseline off a Galumphus head seemed to be to take in the shower.

What it all means.

1. We were making fish and I couldn’t find the pattern for the female fish’s belly.
2. The eyes for the fish were made out of a lightweight plastic and were put outside to dry. A stiff breeze came along and the fish eyes went sailing.
3. Birds puppets stacked on top of one another with a piece of steel running straight through them. Really. What else would you call it?
4. The process of building a crocodile puppet was not going well.
5. I ordered a dog skull for a dead dog I was building for a show.
6. I needed a 42″ doll, which happened to be called Emily, that was available at the drugstore.
7. Couldn’t find the puppets arm
8. Checking the fit of a puppet sometimes makes one say unfortunate things.
9. Really, this was too easy. We needed heavier gauge spring steel.
10. This is part of a friend’s hilarious story about making puppets for a Seuss show.