Here's another selection of items that have been amusing me since the last time I posted a collection of these:
1. Within moments of telling us, with great emphasis, that the baby's head circumference is in the 97% percentile, my son E-'s doctor casually asked, while further inspecting him, if we thought he most resembles me.
2. I find the prompts alongside pages at Dictionary.com asking, "How many words do you actually know?" kind of insulting, or at least condescending. I don't need these kinds of belittling challenges-- I'll take my lucrative ad-ignoring eyeballs elsewhere, like a real book, maybe. THOSE don't judge me. Usually.
3. The kids are getting too smart... after my wife J- had a "candy for dinner" night while I was out of town last summer, they all declared it a success and she told them we could do it once a year. Five months later, a mere four days into January, my 7-year-old son D- said, out of the blue, "Hey, since it's a new year now....... can we have candy for dinner again tomorrow night?!?"
4. The other day, my now-5-year-old daughter M- pretty much hit the nail on the head in disgustedly describing a clown as, "Some weird guy... with a big red nose, and a really white face..."
31 January 2012
Things that amuse me, Vol. 11
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I, too, am a member of the bighead club. I don't even bother trying on hats...they never fit. When I had an ultrasound, shortly before kid number two was born, his head was measured at a little over 34 cm. Let's see...10 cm dilation, times 3.14159 is a circumference Max of 31.5-ish cm. That explains a lot.
So that means you don't know the words you are taunted with at dictionary.com. A gobo is ----?
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