Re: A kid who knows the score

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Is this spate of posts a cry for help?


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 09- 1-11 5:50 PM
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You would not believe the amount of shit I have to do.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 09- 1-11 5:53 PM
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But do you need help doing it?


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Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 09- 1-11 6:09 PM
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Whee, Santa Barbara. (Can't watch just one Youtube video --the setting of some of her others is clear.)

Back to putting things in boxes.


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 09- 1-11 6:15 PM
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I'm pretty sure three "penises" and a "vagina" just gets you a PG. Three penises and a vagina, on the other hand...


Posted by: Mr. Blandings | Link to this comment | 09- 1-11 7:45 PM
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...gets you your own hour-long special on the Discovery Health channel.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 09- 1-11 7:50 PM
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I like that it's not that Mommy doesn't have a penis; she doesn't have any penises.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 09- 1-11 8:27 PM
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8: Compared to the first POTUS. She's a pretty sharp kid.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 09- 1-11 8:41 PM
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Mama don't allow no penis-packers 'round here.
Said Mama don't allow no penis-packers 'round here.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 09- 1-11 8:43 PM
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Every parent in the English-speaking world must have had this exactly conversation with their children, the word "pagina" included.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 8:38 AM
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My nephew, on joining my sister in the bathroom, observed that she had fur on her penis.


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 9:02 AM
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11 is absolutely correct. I'm betting that this is the first child of the parents who made the movie, otherwise they wouldn't have found the conversation so remarkable.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 9:09 AM
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The best you can hope for is that the conversation doesn't happen in the middle of the grocery store.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 9:13 AM
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14: My youngest went through a roughly month-long phase when he was two years old during which the first thing he told literally every person he encountered (family, friends, strangers on the street or at the grocery store) was "my daddy has a BIG HUGE penis!" If I was there, this was usually phrased in terms of an introduction: "This is daddy. He has a BIG HUGE penis!"


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 9:22 AM
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15: That's reason to have kids right there. You can just look slightly embarrassed and say "You know kids. It's true, though."


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 9:23 AM
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Urple slid him candy every time this happened.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 9:23 AM
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15: He probably just wants to be sure you don't spend all the college money on the first ones.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 9:24 AM
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Bah. Where did you come from?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 9:25 AM
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I can't believe you never told that story before. I think that may be the funniest parenting story I've ever heard. I'm still laughing at it.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 9:25 AM
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The "if I was there" makes me think he did when only mom was present. That must have been really fun for her.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 9:31 AM
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went through a roughly month-long phase

So, you took showers at the pool and he got more data and that was that?


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 10:09 AM
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The words penis and vagina don't exist to my niece's and nephew's vocabulary. It's "poodles" and "kitty cats". This also leads to hilarity, but seems to have eliminated the VERY LOUD questions thereof in line at the grocery.


Posted by: sam k | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 11:36 AM
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s/b neices' and nephews' rather


Posted by: sam k | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 11:36 AM
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My son had a phase where he would see something and start shouting out syllables that rhymed with it. I think he had just figured out how rhyming worked. He had a knack for finding all the wrong things in crowded places like grocery stores. "Look daddy, that's Tigger! Tigger bigger digger jigger kigger ligger migger . . ."


Posted by: unimaginative | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 12:07 PM
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My son has taken to telling strangers not to smoke. So far he's lectured a burned out man in a bus shelter, a sullen teen outside pizza shop, and young female hipster.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 12:09 PM
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20: Wasn't that thread of similar stories linked here a few years ago? The punchlines to the best ones were:

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"Don't hit me with your big dick, Daddy!"

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"Daddy, remember that time you were peeing in Mommy's mouth?"


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 12:21 PM
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Mara just points out no smoking signs rather than lecturing smokers, but I'm extra glad we insisted on "vulva" since no one at the grocery store cares if she's whining about how "the cart a-hurt me my bulba!"

She has switched to "bottom" (or, I guess, "bollom") rather than the "buh-butt" she used when she moved in with us. I'm really curious to know whether she came up with that herself or someone explicitly taught it to her.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 12:21 PM
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26 might actually be funnier than the sex ones though.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 12:21 PM
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The nice thing about small children is how unabashedly they deal with itchy butts.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 12:23 PM
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26: I'd be likely to blow a big lungful of smoke in his face but, in my defense, I'm an asshole.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 12:55 PM
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30: Moby no longer has to scratch his own butt.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 12:55 PM
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31: They were all pretty nice about it, except the hipster who didn't notice or was very good at pretending not to notice.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 12:58 PM
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33 to 30.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 1:01 PM
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the cart a-hurt me my bulba!


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 1:04 PM
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That's reason to have kids right there. You can just look slightly embarrassed and say "You know kids. It's true, though."

Infants are underrated as wingmen.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 1:06 PM
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Is the link in 35 as ominous as its url suggests?


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 4:23 PM
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No.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 4:23 PM
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Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 10:17 PM
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Not so far unsafe for work.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 10:18 PM
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I'd be likely to blow a big lungful of smoke in his face but, in my defense, I'm an asshole.

Word. I've had talks along those lines with my kids. "People who nag others about smoking should have a cigarette put out on them. The world's a shitty place and smoking is probably one of the few joys that person has left."


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 09- 2-11 11:30 PM
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my children wanted to lecture family members on smoking and I told them it's never acceptable for children to tell grownups what to do, so they can't.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 09- 3-11 12:07 AM
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42: Oh, they are going to be so punk rock. (Or, at the very least, totally Hessians.)


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 09- 3-11 1:55 AM
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How fucked up is it that this has been the Slacker quote that's been going through my head for the last couple of days? http://www.austinchronicle.com/features/2011-08-26/30-things/

Morphic field resonance man, I'm telling you.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 09- 3-11 2:13 AM
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44 I recently used "every commodity you create is a piece of your own death" as a status update and got some puzzled responses. Maybe my favorite line in the movie though it's hard to choose and there's no real reason to. I guess I'll read the article and see if it makes me insane with nostalgia.


Posted by: Mister Smearcase | Link to this comment | 09- 3-11 2:26 PM
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This entire thread is hilarious but, being a dull person, I'm sort of stuck on "why vagina--->pagina?" I can see maybe fricatives are harder to say than stops and labiodental comes along later than bilabial (which is not a vagina joke and which autocorrect wants to change to "cilantro"...I'm going to name him Cilantro) but why's it devoice? Kids can say /b/ easily enough.


Posted by: Mister Smearcase | Link to this comment | 09- 3-11 2:33 PM
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Neighbor, vlease.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 09- 3-11 3:36 PM
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56: Dullness bros!

I'd say because while not a pronunciation challenge, the voiced/unvoiced distinction is a subtle one to detect and keep track of at an early age.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 09- 3-11 4:15 PM
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to 46.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 09- 3-11 4:15 PM
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