Misc excerpts from my life...

[misterx]

We're driving over to my parents house for Easter, and we come around the bend to see a small dog eating some roadkill on the double yellow. "Yuck," I say, "That puppy is eating that dead whatever. I'm glad I'm not a dog."
"Dad, don't talk about eating, I'm *starving*," says Storm, with great drama.
"Since we were talking about eating roadkill," I say in my defense, "I figured it didn't count."
"Dad," she says somberly, "I'm really hungry."

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Later on, we all take a walk across the field to see if the chickens laid any eggs. As we're walking, Lorelei asks "Mom, do chickens self-pollinate?" Mel gives her this wide-eyed "do you have the brain-worms?" look. "No," I say, "Bees have to fly from chicken to chicken, building up chicken pollen on their legs, before the chickens can make eggs." Mel turns to me with a combination of wonder and fear, a look of "Oh crap, it's contagious" on her face, and starts putting some physical distance between herself and the rest of us.

Comments

[mountain-lion.livejournal.com]

yes, but we still don't know if the chicken or the egg came first.

[dariens-haircut.livejournal.com]

Egg.

[mountain-lion.livejournal.com]

based on what?

[dariens-haircut.livejournal.com]

Much more primative organisms than chickens lay eggs.
Reptiles, for example.
It is necessarily an Evolutionist argument.

The Creationist position would be that chickens came first.

[mountain-lion.livejournal.com]

well put. i liked that you had an answer at the ready. :D

[misterx.livejournal.com]

if they were considerate, they both came at the same time. ;)

[mountain-lion.livejournal.com]

*snort* stop being so witty. i can't keep up.

[dariens-haircut.livejournal.com]

That's great.
Both of 'em.
Great.

tn_grrl will tell you,
that is high praise.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

I just write the stuff down.

[rhapsody-98.livejournal.com]

ROFLMAO!!! I'm gonna have to ask my sister the same thing, just to see what she says.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

i'm curious to hear the answer

[rhapsody-98.livejournal.com]

She said "Do chickens.... what?" and refused to understand the question.

[icefacade.livejournal.com]

teehee

[zeppo-marx.livejournal.com]

Stephanie and I had a long chat when Holly was born about how much fun you could have with a deliberate misinformation campaign with your children before they hit school age and got corrected by their teachers.

And then it turned out that we had done just that by accident. We make regular use of an imaginary number named "bleem" that we took from a George Carlin monologue. "Love you - infinity plus bleem!" is a pretty common statement in our house.

Then one day Jake got himself in trouble for arguing vociferously with his teacher that bleem was, indeed, a number greater than infinity..... lol.

It was funny and heartwarming as hell for having had the kid stick up for us with his teacher, but put a big dent in our credability with him as being the unerring recepticals of all human knowledge that all children think that their parents are.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

hahaha... bleem. I like it.

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

*snort* I love both of those.

[theweary.livejournal.com]

LOL!!!

:D