(1)my mother told me this on my wedding day. We women might be lambs in the kitchen, but tigers in the bed. (2)Ew please let that be the end of your story.
(pushing on collar bone)I could snap you like a chicken!
–How are we supposed to know what’s going on?
–It’s all Greek to me.
–Where are you going?
–Pottery class.
-You know I had a huge pimple this morning too.
-What happened to it?
-I put some windex on it
…and you’re just, you know… wonderful
1) Give me any word and I show you how the root of that word is greek. 2) Okay Mr. Portakalos, how bout the word kimono? 3) *whispers* Good one 1) Ah, kimono kimono..ah kimo come from the greek word jimona which mean winter. What do you wear in the winter to keep warm, a robe? So robe, kimono, there you go.
1) Nikki did someone sit on your hair, because it looks a little flat there 2) Angelo! Bite me! *punches #2* 3) Disgusting! Be a lady! 1) Ma! 3) Aww Angelo
1) The Portakalos women if they’re not nagging somebody they die! 2) Oh you’re in so much trouble when I tell my sister 3) tell me what?!
1)Did you lose this?
2)Mrs. White, you find my mama again! You know, she come from Greece, which is where I come….
1)Oh, for God’s sake I know, look, keep your mother off my lawn, out of my basement, and away from my roof!
1)I was going through a phase up until…now. I was ‘frump girl’. 2)I don’t remember ‘frump girl’ but I remember you. You were that waitress. 1)Seating hostess, actually.
1)Iassis, everybody. Hi, Yaya. Do I have the biggest scoop! Look at the earrings I found that will match the fabric of the bridesmaids’ dresses! I remembered, we have a customer at the drycleaners who is a custom jewelry designer so I showed her the fabric. 2)What do these match? Not that fabric you showed me last week. 1)You said you liked it. 2)I said I’d think about it!
1)Is she spitting on him? 2)Yeah, it’s for good luck; keeps the devil away.
1)So here I was, stuck in this cabin for the whole summer with my parents.
2)Don’t all your cousins go up, too?
1)No, I only have 2 cousins. They live in Wisconsin. Why, how many cousins do you have?
2)More than two!
1)Uhm, my parents names are Rodney and Harriet. 2)Well, I didn’t notice, so maybe nobody else will, either.
1- What is that? 2- Its Moussaka 1- Moose Kaka? (all girls except # 2)- hahaha!!!
1. (after answering the door) Ahh! You found my mama again! Did you know, she comes from Greece? 2. Yes I KNOW where she comes from! Now for the last time, keep your mother off my lawn, out of my basement, and AWAY FROM MY ROOF!
1. Ian, are you hungry? 2. No, I’m full, I just ate. 1. Okay, I fix you something.
1. Ma, I can get you pantihose on sale. 2. Okay but no Queensize, they make me look fat!
1. You better get married soon…you’re starting to look OLD!
2. He’s been telling me this ever since I was 15.
1. Ma? 2. What? 1. Why do I have to go to Greek school? 2. When you get married, Don’t you wanna write your mother in law a letter?
1: Actually, um Ian’s a vegetarian. Uh, he doesn’t eat meat. 2: He don’t eat no meat? HE DON’T EAT NO MEAT?! *Long silence* Oh thats ok, I make lamb.
Toula: I love him, ma. Maria: Oh Toula, eat something!
Don’t let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become
A couple more years went by, and my dad brought his mother from Greece to live with us… because we weren’t weird enough. (grandma says she will not be kidnapped by turks in greek, hitting, and runnng out) We told my grandma the war was over… But she still slept with a knife under her pillow.
a pole with a circle on it
All the other girls were blond with pig tails. I was a swarthy ten year old with side burns.
All words come from greek. What about Kimono Mr.(last name of Father). Kimono, hmmm, Kimono. Ah yes. It comes from the greek word kimo, meaning winter and what do you wear in the winter a robe.Ah! There you go!
Are u hungry i make u sumthin? (no im not hungry) ok i make u sumthing
Cause nice Greek girls are supposed to do three things in life. Marry Greek boys, make Greek babies, and feed everyone until the day we die…
Didn’t i say it was wrong to educate the woman?but nooo, nobody listen to me, now we have a boyfriend in the house!is he a nice Greek boy, oh no no Greek, an Xeno!A Xeno with the big long hairs on top of his head!
Does she pick nice Greek boy? OH, NO! No Greek, Exceno! Exceno with the big, long, hair!
Don’t let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you become!
Dont let your past dictate who you are but let it be part of who you will become.
give me a word, any word. and i sew you how the root of that word is greek
GUS: (wedding speech) So. Ian Miller. You know, the word Miller come from the Greek word meaning apple. Our family name, Pourtokalos, come from the Greek word meaning orange. So here tonight we have apple and orange. We all different. But, in the end, we all fruit.
Heh, the Greeks invented pottery. *spray*
Here I am, standing here, your own private Greek statue.
Here I am, standing like some private Greek statue.
Hey Ian, we’re gonna kill ya! Opah!
Hey IAN, we’re gonna kill ya!…OOMPA!
I don’t like my butt, but Taki likes my butt
I had a lummp in my throat. Inside they found teeth and a spinal cord,i kno what ur thiking. Yes it was my twin
I had to go to Greek school, where I sat in a room translating, ‘If Nick has one goat and Maria has nine, how soon will they marry?’
I put windex on it.
I was taken aback by your very cool opening line of Hi
I wish I had a different life, I wish I was bravier and prettier or just happy. But it’s useless to dream, because nothing ever changes!
I’m a Snow Beast
Ian, if you’re going to be in this family, I get you some ear plugs
because the Portokalos women, if they are not nagging somebody, they die.
If nagging was an Olympic sport, my Aunt Voula would have a gold medal.
In the end, we’re all fruit.
Is your lucky day to be babtized in the Greek Orthodox church
It’s a mosquito bite
It’s a mosquito bite.
look everybody!look who’s back again!high ye ya..
Look everybody, Looks whos back again
Maria: So voula, how is business?
Voula: O woe to me, business is bad.
Gus: Voula what is wrong? do u need money?
Maria: No what she means it with two business’s she suffers.
Voula: Yes, I have to send Talki to the big dry cleaning store and I have no time with him!
Maria: What is it? Harriet Miller: Its a bundt. M: A bun? H:A bundT.M A Bondt? H: BUNDT BUUNDT!! M: I know, its a cake-y!….(to friend) there’s a hole in this cake.
Mike: Giving a pop quiz, and I can’t wait to hear the groans.
Ian: Man, you’re tough. I’m giving a test on Hamlet, but I give fair warning.
Mr. Pottery class. Nice to meet ya
My dad believed in only two things… That Greeks should educate non-Greeks about being Greek, and that any ailment, from psoriasis to poison ivy, could be cured with Windex.
my daughter going to marry EE-ANN Miller. Ian Miller Exceno. Exceno with a toast family!
My Family is big and loud, but they’re my family we fight we laugh, and where ever I go, whatever I do, They will always be there!
My people were studying philosophy while your people were swinging on trees.
Nice Greek girls who don’t find a husband, work in the family restaurant. So here I am, day after day, year after year, thirty and
way past my expiration date.
Nicko! Don’t play with the food! When I was your age, I didn’t have food!
Nikki gonna be you Godmother.
Oh my weddingn ight, my mother, she says to me, Greek women, we may be lambs in the kitchen, but we are tigers in the bedroom.
Oh, I don’t know, if I had survived an old lady ass-kicking I would want to brag about it.
One more, one more, a big one
Put some Windex on it!
Put some windex on it.
saw you sucking the lips off his face…told my ma who told your ma
So now you are family. All my life, I have a lump at the back of my neck. Then, I hit the menopause and the lump got bigger. Then I get the hormoneeees and they do the bi-bipbop-bibopsy. Inside the lump, they found teeth and a spinal cord. Yes, inside the lump…was my twin.
So what happens is my dad and my uncles fight over who gets to eat the lamb brain. And then my Aunt Voula forks the eyeball, and chases me around with it trying to get me to eat it, because it’s going to make me smart.
So, here I am at 30, not married, and way past my expiration date.
The man is the head of the family but the women are the neck and they can turn the head any way they want.
The man is the head of the house, but the woman is the neck and she can turn the head any way she wants.
the man may be the head of the household, but the woman is the neck and she can turn the head anyway she wants.
There are two kinds of people – Greeks, and everyone else who wish they was Greek.
There like toast. My daughter is engagged to a person with parents that are toast. No honey No jam just toast, dry toast.
There’s a hole in this Cake.
Ti enai efto to bunt? Enai caky maury!
To eixera, esai Turkos!
Well, You and your fat ass wife take to long!
What do you mean do don’t eat meat? That’s ok, I’ll make lamb.
What do you mean he don’t eat no meat!!? … That’s ok I make Lamb.
What is it. (its a bunt) A bunntttt, a bonk, a bunnnnnnnnt (its a cake) A CAKE!!
What you mean he don’t eat not meat?! Eh, it’s okay, it’s okay! I make lamb!
When I was growing up I knew I was different. The other girls were blonde and delicate and I was a swarthy 6 year old with sideburns.
When my people were developing philosophy your people were still swinging from trees.
Why do I have to go to Greek school?
Why you want to LEAVE me?
Why you want to leeeeeave me? (sobbing)
You family now, so I tell you a story. All my life…I have this lump on the back of my neck. When I reach the menopause, the lump get bigger. I go to the doctor, and he performs a…bo-bobopsy. And inside the lump, he finds teeth, and a spinal column. The lump…it was my twin.
You have two cousins, I have 27 first cousins, just 27 first cousins alone, and my whole family if big and loud and everybody’s in each others lives and business. You never have a minute alone to just think.
you hurt her, and ill kill you and make it look like an accident.
You’re a vegetarian. That’s ok, I’ll make lamb.
You’re a vegetarian? Thanks ok, I’ll make lamb.
You’re family now – all my life I’ve had this bump on the back of my neck..it began to hurt when I hit menopause. I got to the doctor and I had a bip-bop- bibbopsy. There, in that lump, was teeth and a spinal cord…yes it was my dead twin..Now! We celebrate!
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