The Gentle, Whimsical Sense of Humor of Warren Jaquith

 

When doing something fancy or doing something well:  "Just like downtown"

After calling "double" etc.:  "Deja vu all over again"

After the call "Circle up Four—Make me a Line":  "Poof—you're a Line!"

When in a TIDAL wave:  "Summer & Smoke" [it's a TITLE, get it?]

At the beginning of a singing call:  "Circle left and sing-ga"

After the call "and spread":  "... honey!"

When you come to see your corner:  "Girlfriend! — Allemande Left" [& result puzzled looks]

After calls when Warren gave extra cues:  "... he said hintingly"

After getting dancers into "columns":  "... he said Ionically"

Warren:  "Square through ... how many?" (Dancers:) "Four!"
Warren:   "Four would be about right."

When pairs of dancers are facing, to stabilize:  "Look 'em in the good eye"

At end of a singing call:  "That's all she wrote. That's it. That's all" [rhythmically]

After the call "touch a quarter":  "Make sure you use all your quarters!"

After a call with a star, when he directed the star to turn an extra quarter turn: 
"It's an upgrade" [like a rental car]

When the music ended before the dance:  "Put another quarter in"

After a successfully completed learned new call:  "... and there's no blood on the floor!"

After the call "... and roll," if it almost didn't work:  "It was a hard roll"
After the call "... and roll," if it really didn't work:  "It must have been a hard roll"

When calling an inside promenade, various adjectives instead of "boys" or "girls":
"All the good-looking ones promenade inside" (followed by, as they reached home)
"All the intelligent ones give them a swing" (or something else to toy with the dancers)

When it was probably the caller's fault:  "I'll take that — Number 37"

When we didn't quite get it:  "Would you like a rematch?"

When it didn't work AND it was written that way:  [Theatrically crossing off the page and/or tossing it away]

When a square breaks down:  "Is it something I said?"

Pretend pick-up lines:  "Come here often?" or "Are you from Washington?"

When asked "Are you from Washington?" his response was:  "I could be"

When squaring up as Ett's corner:  "You from Bal'mer?"
The response from Ett, of course, was:  "Yeah, hon!"

 

Editor's Note: thanks to everyone for contributing and to Lloyd Anderson for collecting.