very busy and important

Loz: “Andy, you could do that now.”
Andy: “Suddenly I feel like a VB.”
Loz: “It would take three minutes.”
Andy: “I don’t have three minutes. Currently, I’m walking to the printer...”

how many can you do?

“Don’t shoot the messenger, alright, but better the devil you know. Bring back Connex. I’m sick to the back teeth of it.”
Andy achieves a new personal best in cliché concentration

hey, big spender

On the train ride home, Andy tells Leigh-Ann that on the weekend he did something he's never done before.
“That sounds interesting, what was it?”
“I bought two items of clothing in one go. I was unstoppable.”

photo finish

"Look at that, someone submitted a picture of a lamb, that's pitiful. I have a picture of a tree, should I have submitted that and called it 'Country Victoria'?"
According to Andy, some entries in Tourism Australia's 'There's Nothing Like Australia' photo comp leave a lot to be desired

newsflash

"Andy supercedes British tabloids... no, no, Andy trumps British tabloids!"
Andy saves time by writing his own blog caption for his winning political headline: 'Black Day For Brown'

blessed is he who forgets his own jokes, for he will never cease to be amused

“Well, whoever said that, it was funny.”
Andy, temporarily struck by amnesia, on having one of his own quotes explained to him

friday arvo wrap up

"You don't need to reinvent the wheel you just need to loosen the knot."

"I have a fleeting brain."

"It's just trying to express its feelings, orright?"
Andy fielding complaints about a particularly repetitive Depeche Mode track

"This place is getting more contrived every day."
The pressure of his new role as Human Quote Generator begins to get to Andy

such a smooth operator

On a colleague's new dress:
“You look like a cushion.”
Long weekends spent sifting through cushion patterns in homewares stores have taken their toll on Andy

Later, when they almost collide in an aisle, Andy steps aside:
“Cushions first.”

he works hard for the money

"I came into work this morning to take my computer off sleep only to put it back on sleep. That's my first order of business."
Andy heading out the door for his morning coffee five minutes after arriving at the office - late

take heed 'cause i'm a lyrical poet

“As you could, as you would, and as you should.”
Andy on hearing about an enterprising 12 year old who sold photocopied Vanilla Ice lyrics for twenty cents a piece at a primary school in Cape Town

a chip off the old block

What Andy Cumming would name his son if he had one: Max Potential Cumming.

burning questions

"Do you play recorder? Do you tingle the triangle?"
Andy attempts to suss out a colleague's musical talents