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Graham: We use all the same idioms as people, we just replace the words with owl stuff.
Paul: Okay okay, I can do this... Oh man I got so drunk last night, I regurgitated pellets all over the back seat of a... an owl taxi. Okay that was harder than I thought it would be.

"‘So we scrape shields occasionally!’ – what is it with Tom and B’Elanna and their godawful technobabble language when discussing their relationship. This is up there with classics like ‘no need to go to Red alert’ from Equinox and ‘I promise no more affairs with strange ships’ from Alice."

It's because of Johnny that we eat pompalope pie / That we say "you're the pompalope of my eye" / It's because of Johnny that people say "A pompalope a day keeps the doctor away."
—"The Ballad of Johnny Pompalope" song, PB&J Otter

I just keep thinking that something's going to happen today. My Spiderling senses are tingling.

Please, for the love of Pierrot, keep your clothes on.

Target Three said on the all-ship comm, "Intruders, escapees, slice them open like—"
The translator fizzled on the last few words so I guess I'd never know what I'd be sliced open like.

"Somepony?"
The voice was high, and wary, but certainly male. Young. Twilight guessed him at somewhere in early adolescence. The echoes kept her from pin-pointing the sound.
She stopped, watching the area carefully.
"Uh, yeah. I've been alone for a while, so..."
"What's somepony?"
"What?" Twilight was a bit nonplussed at being asked to explain such a basic word. It seemed so simple until she had to define it. "It's just...It means, like, a pony, but not any specific pony? Just, you know, somepony. Some. Pony. It's the same as saying someone. Just with pony instead."
There was a pause.
"Why not say someone, then?"
The voice sounded genuinely confused.
"Because I'm a pony?" hazarded Twilight. "I mean, I suppose I could say someone. Or somebody. I just say pony instead. It's how we talk in Equestria."
Nine Days Down, Chapter 8: "Hunger"

Oh, brother! We're in one Tuonela of a mess now!
Scrooge, "The Quest for Kalevala", by Don Rosa

You really think we can trust that hydrosnake?
Echo asking Hunter if former Imperial Admiral Edmon Rampart can be trusted during "Into the Breach", Star Wars: The Bad Batch


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