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1 " ARTHUR: Yellow car.DOUGLAS: What?ARTHUR: Nothing. Just – yellow car.MARTIN: Why did you say ‘yellow car’?ARTHUR: There was a yellow car.MARTIN: But why did you say ‘yellow car’?ARTHUR: You’ve got to say ‘yellow car’ when there’s a yellow car.MARTIN: Why?ARTHUR: That’s how you play Yellow Car.MARTIN: We’re not playing Yellow Car.ARTHUR: You’re always playing Yellow Car.DOUGLAS: And how, though I fear I can guess, does one play Yellow Car?ARTHUR: Right well, imagine you’re driving along –MARTIN: We are driving along.ARTHUR: Oh yeah, okay, so now you look at the cars as they come along in the other direction, and they’re all different colours. So, uh, for instance, now, uh, that one’s white; that one’s blue; that one’s a sort of metally grey –DOUGLAS: And when you see a yellow car, you say ‘yellow car’.ARTHUR: How did you know?DOUGLAS: A wild stab in the dark!MARTIN: And then what?ARTHUR: You start again!DOUGLAS: So how does it end, this game?ARTHUR: It never ends.DOUGLAS: That’s very much what I feared. "
― John Finnemore
2 " I can definitely imagine a hundred otters. "
― John Finnemore , Cabin Pressure: From A to Z
