Bakers Dozen

The Remains of the Day: colloquial divisions of time less than 1 day long

  1. “… Before dinner”
  2. “Soon”

As in “Uh… daddy this place is boring. When can we go?”
“Soon.”

The Remains of the Day: colloquial divisions of time less than 1 day long

  1. “… Before dinner”
  2. “Soon”
  3. “Jiffy”

The Remains of the Day: colloquial divisions of time less than 1 day long

  1. “… Before dinner”
  2. “Soon”
  3. “Jiffy”
  4. “In a New York Minute”

The Remains of the Day: colloquial divisions of time less than 1 day long

  1. “… Before dinner”
  2. “Soon”
  3. “Jiffy”
  4. “In a New York Minute”
  5. “In a heartbeat”

The Remains of the Day: colloquial divisions of time less than 1 day long

  1. “… Before dinner”
  2. “Soon”
  3. “Jiffy”
  4. “In a New York Minute”
  5. “In a heartbeat”
  6. “C’mere for a second”

The Remains of the Day: colloquial divisions of time less than 1 day long

  1. “… Before dinner”
  2. “Soon”
  3. “Jiffy”
  4. “In a New York Minute”
  5. “In a heartbeat”
  6. “C’mere for a second”
  7. A good ten minutes

The Remains of the Day: colloquial divisions of time less than 1 day long

  1. “… Before dinner”
  2. “Soon”
  3. “Jiffy”
  4. “In a New York Minute”
  5. “In a heartbeat”
  6. “C’mere for a second”
  7. A good ten minutes
  8. “Two shakes of a lamb’s tail”

The Remains of the Day: colloquial divisions of time less than 1 day long

  1. “… Before dinner”
  2. “Soon”
  3. “Jiffy”
  4. “In a New York Minute”
  5. “In a heartbeat”
  6. “C’mere for a second”
  7. A good ten minutes
  8. “Two shakes of a lamb’s tail”
  9. “In a few…”

The Remains of the Day: colloquial divisions of time less than 1 day long

  1. “… Before dinner”
  2. “Soon”
  3. “Jiffy”
  4. “In a New York Minute”
  5. “In a heartbeat”
  6. “C’mere for a second”
  7. A good ten minutes
  8. “Two shakes of a lamb’s tail”
  9. “In a few…”
  10. “Hold your horses a minute.”

The Remains of the Day: colloquial divisions of time less than 1 day long

  1. “… Before dinner”
  2. “Soon”
  3. “Jiffy”
  4. “In a New York Minute”
  5. “In a heartbeat”
  6. “C’mere for a second”
  7. A good ten minutes
  8. “Two shakes of a lamb’s tail”
  9. “In a few…”
  10. “Hold your horses a minute.”
  11. “From sunup to sundown”

The Remains of the Day: colloquial divisions of time less than 1 day long

  1. “… Before dinner”
  2. “Soon”
  3. “Jiffy”
  4. “In a New York Minute”
  5. “In a heartbeat”
  6. “C’mere for a second”
  7. A good ten minutes
  8. “Two shakes of a lamb’s tail”
  9. “In a few…”
  10. “Hold your horses a minute.”
  11. “From sunup to sundown”
  12. “Half a mo”

Huh. I had no idea that Lily Tomlin is gay!: Lily Tomlin - Wikipedia. Ignorance fought.

The Remains of the Day: colloquial divisions of time less than 1 day long

  1. “… Before dinner”
  2. “Soon”
  3. “Jiffy”
  4. “In a New York Minute”
  5. “In a heartbeat”
  6. “C’mere for a second”
  7. A good ten minutes
  8. “Two shakes of a lamb’s tail”
  9. “In a few…”
  10. “Hold your horses a minute.”
  11. “From sunup to sundown”
  12. “Half a mo”
  13. “Just a sec”

Next category:

Repurpose a tune as theme music for a famous person (with link)

  1. George Washington - “Orchard House,” Thomas Newman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJL39_YuUC0

Has a nice all-American, heroic, Coplandesque sound to it.

Next category:

Repurpose a tune as theme music for a famous person (with link)

  1. George Washington - “Orchard House,”
  2. Joseph “The Elephant Man” Merrick - “I Wanna Be Like You”

Repurpose a tune as theme music for a famous person (with link)

  1. George Washington - “Orchard House,”
  2. Joseph “The Elephant Man” Merrick - “I Wanna Be Like You”
  3. Dan Quayle - CCR’s “Fortunate Son” Creedence Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Son - YouTube

Repurpose a tune as theme music for a famous person (with link)

  1. George Washington - “Orchard House,”
  2. Joseph “The Elephant Man” Merrick - “I Wanna Be Like You”
  3. Dan Quayle - CCR’s “Fortunate Son”
  4. Hillary Clinton - “Rose’s Turn”

Repurpose a tune as theme music for a famous person (with link)

  1. George Washington - “Orchard House,”
  2. Joseph “The Elephant Man” Merrick - “I Wanna Be Like You”
  3. Dan Quayle - CCR’s “Fortunate Son”
  4. Hillary Clinton - “Rose’s Turn”
  5. Neil Patrick Harris The Last Man in My Life

Repurpose a tune as theme music for a famous person (with link)

  1. George Washington - “Orchard House,”
  2. Joseph “The Elephant Man” Merrick - “I Wanna Be Like You”
  3. Dan Quayle - CCR’s “Fortunate Son”
  4. Hillary Clinton - “Rose’s Turn”
  5. Neil Patrick Harris The Last Man in My Life
  6. Cecil Adams - “It Ain’t Necessarily So”

Repurpose a tune as theme music for a famous person (with link)

  1. George Washington - “Orchard House,”
  2. Joseph “The Elephant Man” Merrick - “I Wanna Be Like You”
  3. Dan Quayle - CCR’s “Fortunate Son”
  4. Hillary Clinton - “Rose’s Turn”
  5. Neil Patrick Harris The Last Man in My Life
  6. Cecil Adams - “It Ain’t Necessarily So”
  7. Barack Obama – “Take this Job and Shove It”

Most of you don’t link, and none of you know how to quote to preserve the previous links. Really?

If a song title is sufficiently familiar to be effective in this context, a link to a version of it is unnecessary clutter. I ignored the request, for that reason.