Dorothy: “Ma, what are you doing?”

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Sophia: “Filling sandbags, Dorothy. There's a hurricane a-coming.”

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Dorothy: “'A-coming'?”

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Sophia: “That's right. People only use the 'A' when a really big storm is a-coming or a-brewing. So grab a sack and start a-shoveling.”

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Dorothy: “Ma, the weather report said nothing about a hurricane.”

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Sophia: "Ida Pearlberg down at the senior center woke up this morning with a leg cramp. Need I say more?"

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Dorothy: "Yes."

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Sophia: "Dorothy, when you get around my age, two things happen. One, you get more intuitive about the weather. And two, corn becomes your enemy."

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("The Monkey Show," 1991)