Jokers Wild
Something I have only recently noticed about Brendan is that he has started making up his own jokes and telling them to us, usually at dinner or while driving in the car. We usually help him refine his jokes a little, but some of them are actually quite clever for a six year old. Here are a couple samples:
What do you call a Christmas cat? Santa Claws.
And a variation: why did the cat love Santa? Because Santa had Claus.
What do you call a snail aboard a ship? A snailer.
Who did the Burger King marry? The Dairy Queen.
And then the following joke, told to us in the car today, made us giggle for entirely inappropriate reasons: what was the rubber’s favorite school activity? He liked playing in the rubber band.
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Cute. And the best jokes are inappropriately funny.
Comment by Mel B. — Sunday, 20 January 2008 @ 10:01 pm
Heh heh. Pretty clever stuff.
I have a friend who learned English in China, where they teach British English. And Britons apparently call erasers rubbers. Imagine the hilarity when she asked for an eraser for the first time in an American high school…
Comment by Heather — Monday, 21 January 2008 @ 4:34 pm
Our oldest recently was talking about knocking people down (we were talking about ways to build people up, and things we shouldn’t do that tear people down).
Well, she sort of got it wrong, and kept asking my wife if it was nice to “knock people up”. Uh, not generally….
Our 2-year old had similar trouble with “tear people down” - she kept saying “tear people up” instead. Her glee when we laughed meant that we heard the phrase the rest of the night, with a lovely up-beat accentuation at the end each time. Wish I had the camcorder ready…
Comment by Step — Wednesday, 6 February 2008 @ 2:54 am
The camcorder must be the most useless piece of technology ever invented. It is never available when I could really use it to record that spontaneous bit of humor from our children; and when we do use it, it is usually to record something totally boring and pointless like a family reunion, or the kids opening presents on Christmas day.
Comment by greypilgrim — Wednesday, 6 February 2008 @ 9:09 am
Yes, we haven’t actually used ours to record anything remotely interesting in over a year, and probably 3 years before then. Mostly we just record short (lousy) video on our digital camera now.
Comment by Step — Wednesday, 13 February 2008 @ 9:30 pm