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Poultry profits?
Posted by John on 19 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: heard
(During a conversation in which Shannon and I seriously consider getting some hens to raise in our pet-less, fenced-in backyard)
“We could name one ‘Henny’ and one ‘Penny’…”
- Emily
“… and one ‘Nickel’!”
- Amanda
Yeah, yeah… enough already…
Posted by John on 03 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: heard
“I just love the word ‘asymptote’. I mean, how many words have ‘m-p-t’ in them?”
- John, after just having used “asymptotically” in a sentence at lunch with Dave
“Um… ‘empty’?”
- Dave, John’s best-work-friend (or work-best-friend, or… whetever), after about five seconds of thought
“Okay, other than that one…”
- John, somewhat embarrassed
“Scrumptious?”
- Dave, again after about five seconds of thought
“Okay, okay…”
- John, giving in
“My name is Humpty, pronounced with a Umpty…”
- Dave, singing, refusing to accept my surrender
“Okay, so anyway, as we were saying…”
- John, dragging the conversation back on track
Dave nods to acknowledge that we can continue the conversation and abandon the hunt for “m-p-t” words
“You’re still thinking, aren’t you…”
- John, after another five second pause, exasperated but laughing
“Verklempt?”
- Dave, now laughing as well, secure in his total verbal domination of the moment
Heard from the past…
Posted by John on 26 May 2009 | Tagged as: heard
(The following items were heard back in February 2009, written on our wipe-off board, photographed from there with my camera-phone, then quickly forgotten about. I just found them again and now present them here for your enjoyment.)
Apparently, Olympics >> American team-sports
“Is the USA in yellow?”
- One of the girls, while watching Super Bowl 43 (Being a Pittsburgh fan, I told her “Yes”.)
And if it’s the Super Bowl, where are the pins?
“Is this football?”
- One of the girls, again, while watching the Super Bowl
“Is what football?”
- John, wondering what they could possibly be missing
“What we’re watching.”
- Same girl
“Yes, this is football.”
- John, thinking “I’ve shown them this before, haven’t I?”
“Then why are they throwing it with their hands?”
- Same girl, apparently having been exposed to the term “football” more often in another, more international context.
Well, she’s got a point…
“It’s snowing and we bought ice cream! What kind of weirdos are we?”
- John, pointing out the irony of the situation
“We’re Straffins!”
- Amanda, pointing out a thorough understanding of her weirdo heritage
Witty “Mars” vs. Tired “Venus”
Posted by John on 02 May 2009 | Tagged as: heard
“Should I bake? I should sew, though. No! No. I’m not going to sew right now… I’m too tired. I’ll bake…”
- Venus (aka “Shannon”)
(In a stereotypical American Indian “How!” sort of voice) “I am too tired to use sharp things, therefore I will use fire!”
- Mars (aka “John”)
(Tired giggles… for the next two minutes…)
- Venus
M… M… Montana? No. Maryland? No…
Posted by John on 15 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: heard
“One-Minnesota, Two-Minnesota, Three-Minnesota…”
- Amanda (shortly followed by Emily saying the same thing), showing preference for the mid-western state over the traditionally-used and southern “Mississippi”…
I don’t recall seeing that in my box of Crayolas
Posted by John on 12 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: heard
“Well… color me crazy then…”
- John
“Sorry sweetie, I used up that crayon a loooong time ago.”
- Shannon
It makes you a silly-billy!
Posted by Shannon on 30 Jan 2009 | Tagged as: heard
“Mama, what is ‘alidocious’?”
- Amanda, practicing at the piano
“What do you mean?”
- Mama, who has never heard of “alidocious”
“Well, in the song it says ’super-cali-fra-gi-list-ic-MAKES-ME-alidocious’, and I just wondered what that makes me.”
- Amanda, succumbing to her penchant for reading the first part of a word and guessing at the rest when faced with “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”.
I think it’s baroquen
Posted by John on 20 Jan 2009 | Tagged as: heard
“If it’s already fixed, don’t baroque it!”
- Amanda, further warping the already warped quote from Beauty and the Beast’s Cogsworth: “If it’s not baroque, don’t fix it!”
Directional challenge
Posted by Shannon on 23 Sep 2008 | Tagged as: heard
“We should be putting something on your scar every time you turn around”
– Mama, dabbing ointment on Emily’s keloid scar to try to soften it
“Good grief! I need to walk in straight lines!”
– Emily, very amused at her own joke
Wow… they do listen!
Posted by John on 23 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: heard
In the middle of a discussion between Daddy and the girls on how whining only works when parents give in…
“So… why do children continue to whine at the park or the museum… ?”
- Daddy, trying to prompt the girls to arrive at the answer “Because their parents give them what they want when they do”
“Because they never want to come back there again!”
- Amanda, showing that she understands that lesson, anyway 