Jul 31

548.

Jul 30

“This wasn’t me, Jack. I’ll swear it by any god you want.”

Jul 30

“Will the authorities permit us to utilize homemade explosives?” Will asked curiously.

Daniel coughed and muttered something about the FBI and blowing up that bridge when they came to it.

Jul 29

547.

Jul 28

Willis was discovering muscles he’d never suspected existed. And he wished he’d never found them, since their chosen method of making themselves known was through pain.

Jul 28

“I’ve found that sticking your fingers in your ears and humming loudly solves a whole slew of problems.”

Jul 27

546.

Jul 26

“Well it’s supposed to be a telescope, but you have to put it together and I think the parts are reproducing.”

Jul 26

“How many fingers?”

“Hammond, George, Lieutenant. 1920492.”

“I don’t think the Geneva convention was intended to apply to answering legitimate medical questions.”

Jul 25

545.

Jul 24

“First of all it’s hot, it’s halfway across the planet, and did I mention hot? Miserable, scorching, ‘you’ve got to be kidding’ hot.”

Jul 24

“Are we all here?”

“Yes, perfectly.”

“No, not can we all hear…”

Jul 23

544.

Jul 22

“Carter, how much did you give him, for Christ sake? He’s got all the coordination of overcooked spaghetti.”

Jul 22

“Peterson in maintenance says the paint takes about six weeks to fade off of skin. But don’t worry. Bentley in research is trying to formulate a solvent that won’t take your skin off.”

Jul 21

543.

Jul 20

“Daniel, don’t even try to use a sports analogy against me, okay? You have no idea what you’re talking about and we both know it.”

Jul 20

He wordlessly held his empty mug out to her without removing his gaze from the screen. “Is this your subtle way of asking for a refill?”

“Sssh,” Daniel waved a hand at him in a clear ‘go away and get me more coffee’ motion.

Jul 19

542.

Jul 18

“What number is the History Channel?”

“I have no idea, and it doesn’t matter because we’re going to be watching ESPN.” He said it with great emphasis in the hope that might make it more likely to happen.

Jul 18

“Sam has a big mouth.”

“Sam has this strange idea I’m an adult who might function more efficiently if he’s given all available data. Must be the scientist in her.”

Jul 17

541.

Jul 16

“This from the man who keeps telling me he’ll kill me if I don’t shut up?”

“Now, be fair, I’ve been very careful to use the word ‘maim’. Death was never an option.”

Jul 16

“I heard something hissing.”

“Yeah, that would have been all the blood in your brain going AWOL. Next time you hear that noise tell me before you fall over.”

Jul 15

540.

Jul 14

“Did you know there’s a building up there? It seems to have smoke coming out of it.”

“Yeah, we know. It’s a ruin.”

“It doesn’t look ruined. It looks like it could still be in use.”

“Trust me on this, Daniel, it’s a ruin. We know, we ruined it. Well, actually, Teal’c ruined it. Either way it’s definitely ruined now.”

“Teal’c razed a whole temple?”

“Well, actually he more kind of lowered it.”

Jul 14

“He has worshippers on many worlds.”

“Yeah well, a judiciously placed hand grenade and he’s still chopped salami.”

Jul 13

539.

Jul 12

“The guard hit me because I hit him.”

“And you hit him because…?”

“I needed him to hit me back.”

Jul 12

“I’m a student of the arts, you know. For instance, this is a classic example of the 17th century--”

“Actually it’s early 19th.”

“I didn’t say I was a good student.”

Jul 11

538.

Jul 10

“How do you feel? You look terrible.”

“I feel terrible. It’s a set.”

Jul 10

“He’s just not the type to come up with any coherent ideas.”
That was the closest Dan had ever come to actually calling someone stupid.

Jul 9

537.

Jul 8

“I mean, nobody actually came right out and said the ‘L’ word, did they? On the other hand, preferring to die rather than lose her is a bit of a give away.”

Jul 8

“Damn it, Carter! Do you think you could stop bleeding a little here? I don’t have that much gauze!”

Jul 7

536.

Jul 6

Yeah, they’d had a grand old time while he’d suffered under the yoke of oppression known as “triplicate.”

Jul 6

“Have you eaten? I’ve got beef and black bean sauce, mu shu pork, honey prawns, mixed vegetables and rice. And two sets of chopsticks.”

“I burned two omelettes, ran out of eggs and gave up,” he said. “Come on in.”

Jul 5

535.

Jul 4

Jack gave me a look that would easily have ignited rock.

Jul 4

He says that watching someone else’s disasters makes a nice change from living his own. Clearly Jack subscribes to the ‘I bang my head against a brick wall because it feels so good when I stop’ school of recreation.

Jul 3

534.

Jul 2

They had been on this planet for days and the most excitement he’d seen was the dance Daniel did when the squirrel ran up his pant leg.

Jul 2

“If he asks me to shoot you, I will do it first and questions later, though to be honest the only question I can think of is what’s taking him so long to give the order.”

Jul 1

533.