You should start giving them Hawaiian Punch to drink.
There was definitely a month or three where I referred to my newborn by "Hawaiian Punch" online FAR MORE than I called her by her real name in real life, and I was fairly isolated in real life and not seeing people with whom I might use her real name, and Hawaii started to feel like her real actual name to me.
I kind of just enjoy exposing the Giblets to random 20th century settings.
I love this. Impart a sense of time and history.
We did read High Rise Mystery
Yay! There's a sequel!
I don't remember hearing flug before. Now that I'm keeping an eye out, I wonder how long it'll be before I see it everywhere?
So, etymologically, a wrinkle in your flying carpet is a Flugzeugflug? Good to know.
Oh surely the donors who paid for the floor sanding and refinishing and for the nanny didn't put out anywhere near a billion
I feel like there was a whole genre of books I read as a kid, where kids lived in NYC, and had friends down the hall, or a couple floors above them, and went to schools with names PS 427 or whatever
Yes! I read those books too. My favourite was From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (and okay, I guess Claudia and her brother didn't actually live in NYC; but they ran away to NYC (to live at the Met! can you imagine?! my 9- or 10-year old self was just so thrilled by this very notion ...).
One of my favourite childhood series was Sidney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind-Family series: five sisters, growing up American Jewish on NYC's Lower East Side, and I just really wanted to wear one of their crisp, and freshly-starched, pinafores...
8. My take too on seeing the title.
7: And the thingamajig you use to repair it is the Flugzeugflugzeug.
8. No, it's the draft UK budget. Heebie didn't mention that it was written by Rishi Sunak.
11: I always use a magic vacuum cleaner to iron out the wrinkles in my magic carpet. When the hose gets all twisted and kinked up that's a Flugzeugflugzeugflug. And the magic broomstick I push through it to straighten it out is a Flugzeugflugzeugflugzeug.
Not to mention that whenever the two meanings of "flug" are yoked together as in "Flugzeugflug", you have a case of Flugzeugflugzeugma.
My mom bought the Calabat the Henry and Ribsy series for his birthday - I'm curious to see what he thinks. Anything that gets him off that goddamned Warrior cat series...
And: my phone offers periodically to autocomplete his name as "Calabat".
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13: Not a verb, sure, but work with me here.
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14: Has he gotten into the demented owl books as well? Guardians of Gahoole or something like that? Those were super weird.
No demented owls yet. I'm sure they're coming, as his teacher apparently just hands him books to read on library day which is now why we have to learn about Dustypaw's journey to become a warrior or something. I have no idea. I always imagined I'd be a lot more up on what my kid read but I'm just trusting they're probably not giving him satanic spells.