Saturday, October 17, 2009

Conversation

Me: "Such and and such is happy as a clam."

Nine year old: "Why is it happy-as-a-clam ?"

Me: "Don't know, maybe clams seem contented?"

Nine year old: "Well, why don't they say happy-as-a-hungry-lion-eating-a-human?"

He has a point.

16 comments:

Fat Sparrow said...

I love logical kids that question things.

My nickname as a child was "Spock." I took it as a comliment.

Holemaster said...

And what about Larry? Why is Larry always happy and who is he?

laughykate said...

What a huge compliment,Fat Sparrow!!

Larry is the guy with the drug problem.

SaS said...

Think it should be happy as a fart in a duvet.
My six year old told me that God created the world in the 1970s because nothing ever happened then. Having grown up in the 70s he does have a point...

laughykate said...

Now that's one happy fart!

I like your six year old. Did you point out the fashion that happened then ?

SaS said...

I've threatened to show him photos but I think he might be scarred by the flares...

laughykate said...

Deeply scarred. Wise.

Fat Sparrow said...

That is one wise 6-year-old, and 70's fashions could very well be the detritus of creation.

laughykate said...

Fat Sparrow, if you compared the fashion of all the decades over the last two hundred years, I think the seventies would come second to last (but at least it beat the eighties).

Fat Sparrow said...

Okay, who's been showing you pictures of me in the 80's?!

laughykate said...

Hah!

I am on a quiet crusade to destroy all evidence that I was even around in the '80's.

sp8y said...

I'm sure I have some photographic evidence somewhere... if only breeding hadn't forced critical parts of my memory to fall out, I'd be able to find them and embark on cyber-extortion... on second thoughts, I may also be in said photos. Perhaps I should stop now (ripping up photos of self in homemade green corduroy slacks with mustard skivvy)?

laughykate said...

Sp8y, be very afraid, otherwise you'll find yourself embroiled in a horrible blackmail/extortion pickle.

(I, ALSO, have evidence. And when I last looked - you have more to lose if this evidence becomes publc. As you are much more important than I. * evil snigger*)

P.S. So, what do you want for Christmas?

laughykate said...

i.

It was missing from 'public' in the last comment.

Fat Sparrow said...

It would have been much funnier if the "L" had been missing.

laughykate said...

Heh. If only I'd thought of that.








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