My first conversation of the day was with Fifthborn. Here's how it went.
"Daddy?""Just a minute."
"Daddy?"
"I'm asleep."
"Daddy?"
"Yes. What?"
"Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?"
"Don't know."
"Mount Everest. It just hadn't been discovered."
"Oh. Very clever."
"Daddy."
"What?"
"If two's company and three's a crowd, what's four and five?"
"I don't know."
"Nine. Daddy?"
(Yawns) "Go on, then."
"How many times can you subtract five from twenty-five?"
"Five."
"No. Once. After that, you're subtracting it from twenty."
"That's cheating."
"If you had only one match and you entered a room and found an oil burner, a kerosene lamp and a wood-burning stove, which would you light first?"
"I dunno. The wood?"
"No, Daddy. The match."
"Didn't I tell you I was asleep?"
This is what will happen to you if you buy a child of yours the Children's Miscellany, Volume One. You have been warned.
You've just reminded me of why it took me so long to forgive my brother when he bought my younger son a book called 'the world's funniest jokes for kids'
Posted by: Terri | January 13, 2007 at 06:03 PM
Warning heard and ignored. I will buy it.
Posted by: Caroline | January 13, 2007 at 08:06 PM
your child is a genius - where can i get me that book?
Posted by: mad muthas | January 15, 2007 at 10:38 AM
Oh, how I wish I had that book as a child. Sod that, I'll buy it for myself and torment my family with it *laughs wickedly*
Posted by: china blue | January 16, 2007 at 08:16 PM