That is awesome! My officemates are now trying to figure why I'm laughing so hard. SNAKES ON A PLANE!

SNAKES ON A PLANE!!! My ten-year old and I laughed so hard the first we saw that....it has been a buzzword for craziness in my little load patrol land of the airline industry...we are so psychicly linked.

Snakes on a Plane, eh? Well, I'll remember that, should I ever get pulled over by the law.

Liza {who figures this won't help w/the photo radar thingie though~too bad}

oh, and great job on distracting the po-po from their job. Excellent!

Dude, that movie comes out on my friend Kate's birthday, and we are so going to see it with her. SoaP is EVERYWHERE! There are parodies! Already! Snapes on a Plane! etc, etc.

I'm totally gonna break all kinds of traffic ordinances today and see if it works on Texas cops! SNAKES...ON A PLANE

Oh my God - you are insane. I love it!

LOVE IT! I wonder how long it will be until law enforcement everywhere is inundated with, "I'm sorry officer . . . SNAKES ON A PLANE!"

Yeah for getting out of a ticket!

I think I prefer "LADY IN THE WATER" as my newest expletive.

(really, who got the job of naming movies this summer... I could do that job! and maybe make more money than this non-profit save the world nonsense I've been doing!)

Snakes on a plane! Could it be that there is a Joe Law in your future? Young Joe Law at the gathering a few weeks back and now Mr. Joe Law letting you go.....Hmmm........Hot men in tight pants, you can't go wrong!

I heard a quote once: "Just because your paranoid doesn't mean your not being followed."

Laurie, honey, even crazy people are right sometimes. There is no shame in being crazy. Do you remember the epidsode of Designing Women when Julia Sugarbaker when off on that woman for trying to have her quirky/crazy mother committed?

Man, I need to take lessons from you on how to get out of tickets. I'm so Snakes on a Plane when it comes to the law! I'm going to have to start using that...and I haven't even seen the trailer yet...but I've heard plenty about it.

More power to you!

Man, I need to take lessons from you on how to get out of tickets. I'm so Snakes on a Plane when it comes to the law! I'm going to have to start using that...and I haven't even seen the trailer yet...but I've heard plenty about it.

More power to you!

Whoops, sorry for the double post - the server was acting weird (per the error message).

I am so going to use that phrase in conversation tonight at dinner with my parents, just to see what sort of response it elicits. Too funny.

And way to talk your way out of a ticket, girl!

I have my own nasty habit of making stuff up. For example, pointy and unpointy. Pointy is important, a word that I can never remember because pointy is just so entreched, unpointy means pointless.

The worst of my little slang that bit someone in the butt was "perkyfish". It was an exclimation about plesant surprises. Hey there is a $20 bill in my pocket I forgot about, perkyfish!" "Hey my favourite colour nailpolish they discontinued is back, perkyfish!" Fast forward to a coupple of weeks later. My best friend (a guy) sitting in a staff meeting finding out he was getting to go away on a course for a few days, with everyone at the meeting said , yup, "Perkyfish!" I had to avoid him for a week.

Do you find that it drives you crazy when people use your slang, and use it wrong...? Or is that just me?

Thank you for the much needed laugh at work today!!

omg. SNAKES ON A PLANE!!! That is the first time I've laughed all day. I need to go try that out on some unsuspecting employee today.

:D

Inventory time:
Man in uniform? Check

Good sense of humour? Check

Screw the rest...Did you get his number?

I have the SoaP t-shirt!

Read this: http://hucksblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/snakes-on-motherfucking-plane.html

It's the first person I've read who has used 'snakes on a plane' in regular conversation. It is used in the manner of 'c'est la vie'. Like, "A rabid cat just ate my toe. Snakes on a plane..."

haha! just what I needed to read today! wtg on getting out of that ticket, girl!

Having fabulous nails probably helped, too! But where is the picture? I have to keep mine short, but I can admire yours!

Hi, pastry tube!

You may be wondering what that greeting has to do with anything. It is the subject line of an email I received today expressing great concern about the functioning of certain body parts I don't actually have. Every time I think of it it makes me totally SNAKES ON A PLANE.

Speaking of crazy ...

A few years ago, 2 friends and I went to an exhibit of pearls at the Royal Ontario Museum and learned that there is a creature called a "fatmucket" and that a "spat" is a baby oyster (or something like that ...). Now whenever we want to swear, but can't due to the prudes/kids around us, we say "fatmucketspat", all one word like that :-) It is so mich fun to say! Go on ... you know you want to try it ...

L.

It was the nails...you know it was. Mr. Law was so mesmerized by those bad boys he had to let you go.

First, young hot cop and now really nice cop. Wonder if karma's trying to tell you something Laurie?
Snakes on a Plane, I think you may need to start hitting on men in uniform!

That phrase is so the new "It's Chinatown, Jake." Seriously. Snakes on a plane.

I'll see your ticket evasion and raise you this: I knitted up a couple snakes in preparation for my flight home, just so I could take pictures. I was so hoping that someone would see me and be all, "snakes on a plane!" but no one did. I think they were afraid of me.

I SO needed that today... thanks Laurie,
you have single handedly made my day with your SNAKES ON A PLANE (the law got a good story too)

Damn! I was laughing so hard, I almost choked on my lapsang souchong! Oh, and I only emailed 18 or so persons this post... especially those that are my close friends and completely cracker dogs, um, snakes on a plane fun.

You are so snakes on a plane!

Too funny. Can't get over that you distracted the Long Arm of the Law by saying SNAKES ON A PLANE.

He was married, alas :)

I heard that the Snakes on a Plane guys have already bought and secured the title Snakes on a Ship.

For those of us who like to stay one step ahead...

Snakes on a SHIP?!?! That's better than shitonastick!!!!

Too Funny! My boyfriend and I spent the better part of a hike shouting out "Snakes on a M----r
F------g Plane" I'm glad to see the it's not just an east coast thing :)

Now, you may know this and I admit to being way behind on the times (plus I turn 40 on Monday and my memory is going) but Snakes on a Plane is a movie?? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417148/

Synopsis:On board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, an assassin, bent on killing a passenger who's a witness in protective custody, lets loose a crate full of deadly snakes.

Why do I know this? Because I am nerdy enough to read your blog and then pop that phrase into Google to see what comes up!

Michelle... OMG!!! ROFL

Every once in awhile my Mister and I read the imdb for upcoming movies. So while I was knitting he was reading them to me until he stopped and started laughing uncontrollably. He even SNORTED.
Hubby: *snort snort laugh laugh*
Me: Honey? What is it?
H: Oh my god...
M: What?! What?!
H: (procedes to read the summary of a movie where the entire plot revolves around snakes escaped on a plane in mid flight and the passaengers and crew must survive the ordeal)
H&M: *snort snort laugh laugh*

Snakes on a plane.....hehehehehehehe

this was quite possibly one of the best stories I have heard in a while! and, I must say, if I heard it at a cocktail party, I would be so very amused and possibly on the floor laughing. which is also probably why I'm not often invited to cocktail parties...

What kind of deep dark hole have I been living in (oh yeah, must be the parent-of-two-preschoolers-so-I-don't-even-see-commercials-for-new-movies-anymore hole) that I could have been totally unaware of this handy phrase until this very afternoon?!?!?

Since you didn't specify that you were responsible for actually coining it, I bemusedly Googled expecting to see one big search result at our own Crazy Aunt Purl dot-com, and was astonished to see nearly SEVEN MILLION SITES!!! (including a hysterical post at http://hucksblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/snakes-on-motherfucking-plane.html)

I have got to get out more.

you can abbreviate it, too:

s.o.a.p., man. s.o.a.p.

My DH was just telling me about the movie a couple of nights ago. He will love this story. Also, in my zeal to address you as Pastry Tube, I forgot to mention: you have spelled "literature" in a totally French and therefore highbrow manner.

Lucia, I hesitated, as I often call it litterchure, but being highbrow and all... LOL

My son told me that when Samuel L Jackson signed on for this movie that he had it in his contract that they had to keep the title as "Snakes on a Plane". (Gotta love him even more for that now)

We've been using the phrase as well, here in the Heartland. I can't wait to see that movie :)

Nice work with Johnny Law, Laurie. Perhaps the nails had just a little to do with it too?

Real question is: did you get his number? (Phone, not badge.)

Oh, my people. My fiance and I often bust out the random "snakes on a plane!" In public. Sometimes loudly. It's just fun to say!

Ellen, he was married. Snakes on a plane!

I'm not saying it, but I can understand. I have two young children, which means silliness for silliness's sake is much valued in our household. When my daughter was 3, she made up a totally meaningless word, "skook." Or, more correctly, "skoooooooooooookkk!" We say it ALL THE TIME. In a rather Tourettes-y kind of way, much as you do SoaP. Three years we've been doing it-THREE YEARS-and it still isn't old. My husband and son (who is four years old) have added SoaP to their repertoire as well, but we girls are still so to enamored of SKOOK to add any other word or phrase to our supply of all-purpose bits o' nonsense.

Hell, I even adopted it as an identifier for myself online.

So I, for one, think you're entirely and completely skooky-er, normal-for going all SNAKES ON A PLANE. Hopefully your parents' friends will be understanding.

-Loonytick Skook (not my real name)

I just sent a picture your way...check it out.

the boy and i use quirky phrases like that too. whenever someone calls in sick to work, or is late, or generally screws something up (could be anything), we say they have MonkeySars. it's a melding of Monkey Pox and Sars. Monkey Sars! a few of my coworkers have started using it too.

it's not so funny now, but it's the kind of 5th grade humor that keeps me ticking.

i'm going to have to try Snakes on a Plane out on some unsuspecting vendors today.

Yes! I have been waiting for "Snakes on a Plane" to come out since I read about it in a magazine like a year ago- Samuel L. Jackson was threatening to pull out of the movie 'cause the studio wanted to change its name. You and Sam L. and apparently "the po po" are on the exact same wavelength!

Okay, I'll bite. What does it mean?

and from orygun, SNAKES IN A CAR!

http://www.kgw.com/mostpopular/stories/kgw_071406_news_snakes_car.1038f2e9.html

I'm sooooo missing something here.....what're "SNAKES ON A PLANE"??

Laurie, I think your parents will only get more invites to cocktail parties because of this. People will want to introduce all of their friends to the parents of the girl who started "Snakes on a Plane" as a nationally used phrase. They should get themselves prepared to just stay drunk all the time.

OMG! I can't believe you did that! Too funny.

Now about that You Tube Thinger you introduced us to (or at least moi)...we actually used it as an educational tool in my eMarketing grad school class last night! "Evolution of Dance" anyone?

My favorite stupid dorkeynesses......

Engineer at work: Thank you for changing this drawing for the ump-teenth time.

Psycomom: Surely

Engineer at work: Don't call me Shirley.

Why do I find this so funny? Was there snakes on Airplane?

Hey, don't you remember that SNAKES ON A PLANE made me crack my skull open a few weeks ago? I saw a trailer for it before I went to bed and had a terrible nightmare about said snakes and threw myself off my bed and into my nightstand. I had to go to the ER and get my head STAPLED!!

I have got to figure out a way to avoid any and all references to that movie....who knows what I'll crack open this time!!!

(The gory details are on my blog....if you're not too squeamish.)

Three snaps for getting out of that ticket, though!!

Your parents won't be disinvited from anything... they live in Florida, and you know Southerners love a good Evadin the Law story. Y'all know how Nascar got started, right? Nuff said! :)

That's the reaction I get when I say "Oh shoes and blankets!" ....bet the cop thought you were cute.

you know, EVERYONE who is ANYONE is going to go see SNAKES ON A PLANE and hollywood and box office counters everywhere are going to have no idea what to do with the fact that SNAKES ON A PLANE is going to do better than x-men and pirates put together. there is going to be some serious head-scratching and befuddlement...all because america has a better sense of humor than they know.

Thank goodness for google. *L*

Did he have a cute partner?

Wow, I'm gonna have to try that one. "Yo, give me a free DVD player, because I SNAKES ON A PLANE!"

Best SoaP story yet! Glad you got out of the ticket, girl.

My friend and I have been saying "Snakes on a Yarn Bus" for a while, in homage to the Flying Fingers yarn store in New York.

You know you're getting old when you still refer to sick leave as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."

I my own self keep busting out "snakes on a plane" as a mantra, a la Josh Friedman in his now infamous post on the subject.

Just had to delurk to praise the absolute awesomeness of your encounter with The Law.

Oh, I like the "snakes on a plane". Will HAVE to use that at work.

Very impressed you got out of a ticket!

Someone earlier asked what Snakes on a Plane are...

Well, they're snakes.

ON A PLANE!!

(laughing histerically...)

Snakes on a mutha-pluckin' plane! *squeals* Kewl.........and it worked on the Long Arm Of The Law, too. That's impressive, but of course you *do* live in Meltangeles. Them coppers are hip.

This has got to be the silliest, most tongue-in-cheeky idea in a long time. Lookin' forward to this movie SO MUCH!

I'm dying to see it because it's called Snakes on a Plane, it has Samuel L. Jackson and it has him dropping the f-bomb. All good in my book.

And forthermore if you do get SNAKES ON A PLANE, you should run run run to bathroom, quick quick quick, only to find ,SPIDERS IN THE BATHROOM, SPIDERS IN THE BATHROOM.Also that camp trick,WORMS IN BED WORMS IN BED. I find knitting helps if I can't sleep.

Hey! There are more than just 14 yr old boys in the basement playing World of Warcraft. There're 33 yr old knitting divorcees with 4 cats, in the Middle of Nowhere, Washington who do too.

Ok. I'm pitiful. ;)

Can I just tell you this entry has me hysterical! Hubby and I walked around the house like dorks that we are randonly advising the other that there were "Snakes on the mother effin plane, and there's nothing you can do about it". This is followed by stupid laughter. In fact, I read him this entry and I think it has officially revived our silly little game *S*

You're not pitiful, Miriam. There are 31 yr old knitting divorcees with 5 kids in the middle of the swamp (ok suburban New Orleans, but close enough right?) who play Warcraft too. In fact, much to my shame, I have taken a break from knitting and started using the phrase "snakes on a plane" thanks to Warcraft. :)

Oh ...

I am SO GLAD that I am not the only one. My co-workers are about ready to kill me for just blurting out 'Snakes on a Plane!' at every possible juncture ... but see, now I can just send them your post here, and they'll know - there are others! Yay!

before today's post i had never heard of snakes on a plane. now i cannot imagine my life without it.
snakes on a plane!

Get those motherfarkin snakes off my motherfarkin plane!

Way to work it! And he's got your personal information, so maybe he'll just give you a jingle, since you charmed him. If he's old enough to know who Charles Manson is, then you're golden! ;-)

It’s ok, by bf and I have been yelling out “snakes on a plane” at all sorts of inappropriate times for weeks. Perhaps because we also live in loco Los Angeles. And there is something very satisfying about the phrase “snakes on a plane”. Can’t wait to see it in theaters.

Hahahahahahahahahaha, thanks for making me laugh :)

I'm having some sort of low iron/anemia/lay on the couch too tired to sit up but too awake to sleep attack, so SNAKES ON A PLANE has pretty much been my highpoint for the day :)

Please tell me that when you say it, it is not simply, "Snakes on a plane!" in a conversational tone and volume. It is SOOO much more effective to cry out, "SNAKES ON A PLANE" in a loud voice. LOL!

Oh, and my boy asked me, "So, what's the movie about?"
Me: "Um. SNAKES. On a PLANE."
Boy: "No, seriously."
Me: "Seriously."

Then he saw the trailer himself, and laughed for a good 20 minutes.

Even before I got to the tale of The Law, I just knew that I was going to have to start working Snakes on a Plane into conversation now. I'm going to have to share this post with my lovely friend, Grasshopper, when she stops by for some more Hex viewing tonight.

OMG!

That movie was filmed in my back yard...I have every one in British Columbia, (and who ever else reads my blog) saying SNAKES ON A PLANE!

That little bit of coincidence just made my day.
Seriously.
That's all it took.

OMG - SNAKES IN A YARD!! I sense sequel...for when the train version bombs...

oh. my. goodness. I am in the car looking all crazy to the people who are not so with-it with wi-fi. That DID NOT happen. It's too...it's too...too funny...can't stop laughing. Thank you for ruining my life because I certainly do not have the restraint to NOT use SNAKES ON A PLANE! Copy Cat, me. But the question I have is - the officer had heard the phrase SNAKES ON A PLANE before? That's pretty crazy. And dreamy. Like Fate. I glad you could respect his athoratay.

Okay, so I'm temping at a Cancer research lab, it's filled with more PhDs that you can, um, shake a snake at. A lunch hour not too long ago had us coming up with sequels to Snakes...how 'bout "Bears on a Boat!" "Crickets on a car!" "Bats on a Bus!"

You don't have to have the i-q of Homer J. Simpson to enjoy all of that :).

LOL- Since I cannot get even one more speeding ticket if I want to keep my insurance, I am so using SNAKES ON A PLANE to charm Officer Law!

Please don't ever change. I'll invite your parents to cocktail parties, just don't ever change.

Hehehehehe!!!!

I just read your post to my hubby, who is SO dying for SOAP to come out. He has declared that he is officially using SNAKES ON A PLANE at work starting tommorow. And then promptly used it tonight.

DH: SNAKES ON A PLANE! I just drank the last beer! You going to the store?

ME: Wasn't planning on it.

DH: Well, I guess I could go. But SNAKES ON A PLANE, I think I shouldn't drive right now. Too many beers.

ME: Just tell the cop you had to go. SNAKES ON A PLANE and all. =)

DH: No. You go.

ME: SNAKES ON A PLANE!!!!

(off to do a beer run. It's 100 here. No beer=no good)

still laughing!!!!

and because i'm a geek too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_on_a_plane

Oh, baby, you are my favorite blog in the universe.

Cop: Uh, ma'am, did you know you were speeding?
Cap: Is that a snake on your plane, or are you just glad to see me?

So it was YOU who started it!!!

did you see Esquire had an article about it? One of the kids at work brought it in. It sounds like it's an intentionally bad movie, perhaps in the mode of "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes".

Don't feel bad, geek=cool these days. Actually, maybe I am making that up. It was cool in the mid-90's. Well, at least SoaP=cool. Always.

So there are many 20- and 20-somethings who play WoW.... I was either going to break up with my boyfriend or have to make a token effort to undestand his crazy computer game... a year later I am hooked... actually we play with a group of about 150 people who are in the 25-50 age age range and the guy/girl ratio is maybe 60/40. I justify it as being as bad for your brain as junk TV and way cheaper than shopping compulsively (not that there are any clothes to fit me here).

Still keeping us laughing. He he
Mia

Dude! The first time I saw the commercial for that movie - I thought it was a Saturday night live spoof or something!

What was Samuel L Jackson thinking!!!!

Holy Snakes on a Plane!!

My friends and I use the phrase "your mom" similarly to how you use "snakes on a plane." Maybe I will adopt 'snakes on a plane' then they would really look at me oddly

Laurie, you are the coolest! I don't think the Snakes on a Plane trailers have made it to the East coast yet, but I just know I will be adopting this phrase even if no one knows what I'm talking about.

I'm amazed that no one thought of this earlier.

Just Blurt out "Soap!"

lol

When I saw the preview for that movie, I literally started cracking up in the theater.... everyone was looking at me like a total freak.... I thought it was the silliest preface for a movie I had ever seen. My husband was like "ooh I have to see that!" I was like...."WTF?" He was like..."It's Samuel L Jackson... I have to see it." I was like everyone else going to see that movie said the same thing....

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love it, I fracking LOVE IT! *L*

Oh man, I am going to have to go all Snakes on a Plane on someone's ass later.

Bow Chicka Wow Wow. ;)

My husband and I have been dying laughing at that movie, you know it's a triology. First it's:

Snakes on a Plane.

Then:
Snakes on a Train

Then lastly:

Snakes down the Lane

Clearly you're not alone, Laurie -
We're all SNAKES on a MUTHER EFFIN PLANE! My hubby and I and all our friends have been laughing about this for months!!
It's nice to feel like you're part of something bigger than yourself... on a PLANE!

And to Michelle - can I just say how much I LOVE that you knit snakes just for a flight?? We should all make those neck-pillow thingies and add eyes and a forked tongue and start selling them - then everyone could have SNAKES ON A PLANE! EAA starts in my town next week - I'll be a fricken millionaire!

How dare the fine, good-humored young officer of the law be married & stuff. . . SNAKES ON A PLANE! Clearly the two of you are made for each other.

Otherwise, GREAT story!!

one of my best friends and now downstairs neighbor can't wait to see that - he's been bugging me about it for months because he has - you guessed it - many pet snakes. I can't believe we weren't saying it sooner - but I bet we will be now. I'm gonna have to get those snakes a plane...

Rebekkah - I think the last one should be Snakes on a Crane. Takes place at a construction site in the jungle maybe? With terrorists, or something...or environmentalists protesting the building...oh crap, I've put way too much thought into this.

Its official...I am addicted to your blog. It is the funniest, wittiest thing on the planet and I always laugh or cry when I read it, which is a good thing. Snakes on a Plane....LMAO....please keep writing/posting for the rest of your life...I need it!

I like to say Snakes On A Plane with a very C'est La Vie attitude, accompanied by a rather gaelic shrug. Very chic.

You just made me feel really, really far from home (and my home culture). I actually had to google "snakes on a plane" in order to understand this post. Yep, it's official. Been out of the country too long. I thought it'd take maybe 15-20 years before all the slang and other cultural tidbits were jibberish to me, but apparently, it only takes five.

OMG!! So funny!

Saw the trailer with hubby the other day and his eyes were huge. I was laughing. He can NEVER see this movie.

We had a garter snake crawl under our front step one day and he had to use the back door for two months. Takes anti-anxiety meds to fly. I'd never get him near another plane...

On our department softball team someone introduced us to the phrase "Ducks on the pond" for when you have runners on the bases. We promptly changed this to "Snakes on a Plane." I make my best at bats when there are Snakes on a Plane. Not to mention how fun it is to yell it at people and confuse the other team!!

The planets are lining up - have you seen this comic?

http://www.savagechickens.com/blog/2006/07/long-flight.html

Pssst - Laurie?
Just for you!!

*S* This month's Maxim Mag

Pssst - Laurie?
Just for you!!

*S* This month's Maxim Mag

grrrrrr - 1st double posting and then no link? SO not my day!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yeaiknit/194869618/in/photostream/

Bwahahaha!

At my dr.'s appointment the other day:

Dr: How are you tolerating that new drug?
Me: The one that might, at any moment, shut down all my vital organs? I'm feeling kind of Snakes on a Plane about the whole thing.
Dr: Huh?
Me: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean everyone isn't out to get you.
Dr: That I agree with!

Bwahahaha! Awesome. You fucking rock.

Someone asked what Samuel Jackson was thinking... well, the Powers that Be tried to change the name of the movie, and Mr. Jackson told them if they did, he'd quit. He signed on because it was called "Snakes on a Plane," and he wasn't going to be in it if it wasn't called that! Samuel Jackson rocks. My favorite thing to say when I'm driving? "Hode on to your butts." (My kids, of course, promptly grab their own backsides, as well as you can when you're seatbelted in, anyway.)

That's weird- my post came up as posted by Dani! (the one beginning with Bwahahahaha)

OMG!!! I love SNAKES ON A PLANE! I'll bet you totally made that cop's day. A cute blond with fab ballet pink nails chatting him up about SNAKES ON A PLANE!

This is one of the rare occaisions where I feel a twinge of resentment towards women in general:

Women can sometimes get out of a ticket. Men NEVER do.

OMG, Laurie. There is a woman standing outside my office wearing a....

.... SIDE pony tail!!!!!

You are a freaking genius.
I am SO coming here from now on.

SSSSSS. . . . WHAT!! . . Snakes up on a Plane. My 16-year-old has had the whole family wandering around muttering this for days - I cracked up when I saw that you are too. Muttering it while parked in front of his computer playing WOW. Are you sure you aren't really a 15-year-old boy? hehe

I nearly had a car accident the first time I finally saw the movie poster on the highway side of one of the multiplexes. I had to call my husband at work, while driving 75mph in traffic... "But honey, have you SEEN the full-sized poster? Yeah, it's up! WANT ONE!" We've been waiting for this one for a while, too.

Since I first saw the title, I've imagined hearing it in George Clooney's voice, with the same intonation as a favourite line from 'Oh Brother, Where Art Thou', where he's can't believe his ex-wife told their daughters he was...

"Hit by a train!"

You can hear it too, can't you?! "Momma said you was hit by a train." "Snakes on a plane!"

Yep, here come those transatlantic snakes .. on a plane.

So, this has nothing to do w/ snakes on a plane (although I love it)...
I used to go to school in Louisiana (and I'm from L.A.) and I always drove my car to and from New Orleans to LA. and on the 10 in the middle of texas, is a sign that says "9 Miles from Comfort" and I love it. and your "ten minutes from crazy" title really reminded me of that sign. ahhh...nostalgia...
you don't by chance know that sign, being from the south and all, do you?

LAURIE! While in DC for a conference this weekend, I took a little picture just for you! Please stop by the blog to view it!

Only one carrion per passenger, please!

(yes, pun intended)

I feel like I have stumbled onto a cult so public it's wrapped back around into being private again. I've been reading your mostly-not-so-much-about knitting posts for a couple of months now, and thought this one hilarious, and started reading some of the comments, and thought I'd click on a link or two to see what kinds of people (all women except for me...wait, just scrolled up and saw someone named "Steve," probably a woman who doesn't want anyone to know she reads blogs) respond to a post about getting out of a ticket by saying "Snakes on a Plane."

Knitters.

A cult of knitters.

Fantastic.

Anyway, great writing style. As many blogs as I read (way more than I should), it's very uncommon to hear such an individual voice (not opinion necessarily...just the way you write).

Hope you're working on a novel.

Did you get his badge number? Sounds like this one has waaay more potential than the last arm of the law.

I've never heard that before but I love it!

Yay for not getting a ticket. :-)

HILARIOUS!!! my husband hd back surgery this past friday and i've ben sponge bathing and being a good nurse but I am exhausted and this story made me LAUGH!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU LORI YOU ARE SO ROOTY TOOT TOOT FUNNY!!!!

Snakes on a rattytattatmucket loving plane!

You may have started something! I loved this story.

Dang, I got a speeding ticket last week. Why didn't I know about SNAKES ON A PLANE then? I could have saved myself $118.

http://www.maximonline.com/shared_images/pic_mag_cover.jpg

It's on the cover of Maxim.

I thought you might appreciate SNAKES IN A POST OFFICE.

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060726/od_nm/germany_snake_dc;_ylt=AvFGISMK3rqnFpW5qm5L4j6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3NW1oMDRpBHNlYwM3NTc-

I thought you might appreciate SNAKES IN A POOL! It happened on my vacation and maybe also it was just one (little) snake.
http://www.iheartknitting.com/?m=20060726

That was too hilarious! I'm falling off my chair. For the record, I'd invite you to a cocktail party just so you could tell that story.

Eeeeew, snakes in a pool!

Dare I even admit that not only do I find great amusement in SNAKES ON A PLANE, btu I also play World of Wacraft with said 14 year old, porn downloading boys? Oh, and I'm 34 and I knit too.

Who's crazy now?

You write really nicely. I am a daily newspaper editor, and again, you write in a nice way.

You will love this knitted item:
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=110092.new#new

http://tinyurl.com/mmgnq

Have you seen this?

http://www.snakesonablog.com/2006/07/27/snakes-on-a-police-stop/#comments

LOVE Snakes on a Plane and can't wait for 8/18!!!!

well, i am just guessing here....but i think you may end up dating a hunky-hunk-hunk guy in uniform someday...

I want to date you.

except for the travel to cold places part. But, yeah, still. By the way, I am 28 and male but not in California.

Now, what would a young whippersnapper of 28 want with a bag of crazy aged THIRTY FIVE? heh. Though I am well and very flattered!

Now I quote the great Samuel L Jackson:
"No movie shall triumph over Snakes on a Plane. Unless I happen to feel like making a movie called Mo' Motha-f&%k^n' Snakes on Mo' Motha-f&%k^n' Planes."

(!!!)

I remembered your post from last month, when I saw this. If I was still in the US, I would send one to you.

http://www.slashfood.com/2006/08/12/snakes-cake-snakes-on-a-cake/

I may have posted this before but I love this post, I sent it to my friends and I occasionally come back and refer to it when I need a good Evadin' the Law story. And I throw "snakesonaplane" in whenever I can when talking to my editor and copy editor.

Of course they think I'm crazy, but they will catch up.