Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Calibrating frost heaves

My nickel-sided molybdenum cube plays piano while gargling lozenge coloured lint barnacles. What does yours do?

Speaking of which, I have two things to mention.

One: My son (6yo) has taken on the habit of prefacing almost every statement he makes with the phrase: 'I have something to tell you'. I find this funny in its uselessness.

Two: We are friends with two other families, one of which has a 9yo daughter with first inital M. M has taken to asking me questions like this: If a snake wearing dandelions had no bicycle, would the herring wear earrings while dancing?
Then she asks me to formulate an equally imaginative question to be asked of her. I find this tremendous in imagination building in addition to vocabulary building.

2 comments:

ghost said...

mine tap dances in the stratosphere wearing nothing but a gunbelt and a smile.

supertomek said...

mine is some kinda coffee-coloured ferrite-ish cube, but its gargling is accompanied by a funky percussion beat.
"having something to tell you" - it's like a preamble. do we consider it cute because we consider it useless? reminds me of whichever comedian complaining about ppl pointing at the wrist when asking for time, saying "do i point at my crotch when i ask 'where's the bathroom?'?".
punctuation, punctuation, everybody's trying to get me...

kids these days just dont know how good they've got it. when i was growing up all we had was a joke that went something like: " a guy in a kayak paddle up to the sidewalk and asks a guy what time it is, to which the stranger takes a thermometer out of the water and says it's 3 kilometers to 8".
way too much sense. kids just dont know how good they've got it.