"Do me a favour, and light that monkey for me"

[gothick]

Mmm. I'm in Boston Tea Party, having a celebratory slice of chocolate tart. www.uniquesentence.com is now up on teh intarwebs.

This probably bears a little explanation for those of you who haven't known me very long. For about a decade, I've been in the habit of noticing unique sentences. These are sentences which crop up (preferably) in everyday conversation, but which you're sure haven't been said before in the entire course of human history.

This is a strange hobby, to be sure, but I just plain enjoy the fact that every day, people everywhere are creating something completely new in perfectly mundane circumstances. And it's fun to watch out for unique sentences. Well, it is if you're a bit weird, anyway.

Unfortunately, I have no memory for them. I've tried writing them down every now and again, but I never really had anywhere to put them. Plus, uniqueness is quite subjective (how many times has "Don't forget to hang your toast up!" actually been said? What it needs is a bit of third-party adjudication.

So. A few weeks ago, someone apparently gave me a round tuit, and I started work on the Unique Sentence website, where we can save unique sentences for posterity, and I've just released the very first proper version of the site. This initial release has limited functionality, but you can at least browse the sentences, and if you sign up for an account, you can also add unique sentences of your own and rate other people's sentences.

If you do check it out, then there's a contact form for feedback, or you can throw comments here, or mail support <at> uniquesentence.com...

Oh: quick warning: If I get my act together, there may be Google Ads appearing on the site at some point, so don't go there if you object to advertising. They'll be shuffled off into a sidebar, or sitting at the bottom of the page, though; I don't need to make money, I just want to cover my hosting costs if I can...

Comments

[kaveypie.livejournal.com]

I love it.
If you can get your hands on some of the old quote files from Warwick you may well find a wonderful hoard of additions - sadly, rather too many uttered by yours truly.
Kavey

[ruthj.livejournal.com]

Like "I wonder who makes Cadbury's creme egg's"

I also see to remember "Anchovies are not the source of the my problems" (said by Jason Holloway to your husband I think!)

[(Anonymous)]

Apparently my utterance yesterday to Pete should be uploaded:
I think it was as follows but he'll need to confirm:

"Have you found my lady tyres?"

The duck can't kill you because it can't get close enough

[mistymaria.livejournal.com]

Anyone who saw me as the Wise Woman in It's About Time will know that I have access to some - because all my lines were Unique Sentences. Rather than add them all myself, though, I'll point the playwright at the site :-)

Re: The duck can't kill you because it can't get close enough

[gothick-matt.livejournal.com]

Excellent; the more the merrier!

Hiya

[dancingpiratess.livejournal.com]

I added two that came up in converstion with my boss today....
:-)

Re: Hiya

[gothick-matt.livejournal.com]

Excellent :) I've just approved your last two submissions, by the way, so everyone can see them now¹!

Thanks for your sentences! I want this site to grow a bit, it's more interesting when there's lots there to browse through!

¹(Currently the anti-spam system's set up so that if anyone submits a new sentence within four hours of submitting an earlier one, the sentences have to be approved by a human. I may make it a bit less paranoid later on... Maybe allow people who've been members for more than a few days submit whatever they like...)

[ngma.livejournal.com]

Love it and have added one (attributable to an ex-boyfriend) that I liked so much that I adopted and have caused much consternation and laughter around the country