Did you ever hear one of those corny, positive messages on someone's answering machine? 'Hi, it's a great day and I'm out enjoying it right now. I hope you are too. The thought for the day is share the love. Beep. ' 'Uh, yeah, this is the VD clinic… speaking of being positive, your test is back. Stop sharing the love.
The favorite game of temperamental people is Try to Guess Why I’m Ticked Off. (Contestant number one, Why do YOU think he’s pissed off? Why, I’m not sure, Bob, but I’m going to go with ‘Because I Left the Faucet Dripping. ’ BEEP. I’m sorry, that’s incorrect. The correct answer is: ‘Because You Happen to Exist. ’)
Hi, this is Sylvia. I'm not at home right now, so when you hear the beep. . . hang up.
A beep on the nose is a sign of great affection
When somebody can't reveal what they're after - whether by word or by how the camera is set up, lighting, etcetera - it's like an electronic beep beep; it interferes very much with what we actors can do. And, after all, the director wants the actors to be bringing forth the best that they can, according to whatever vision he has.
If the apocalypse comes. . . beep me!
I have been ineluctably drawn to libraries ever since I entered that sanctum sanctorum. It was a place of quietude. In a world where things go beep and ding and ring, where you’ve got mail and you’ve got messages, when I enter a library, I feel that I am still entering a temple.
