Why English is funny! January 20, 2006
Posted by spacemom in : Kids , 1 comment so farTimon: "I think he’s a little blue"
Pumbaa: "He looks more tannish brown to me"
Timon: "No, I mean he looks depressed!"
-The Lion King, when the meerkat and the warthog meet Simba the lion cub
Soleil loves the Lion King (except scene 10, which we MUST skip over every F’ing time). The other day, we were driving home. I was tired, Dr. Jay was tired. The girls were begging for crackers because we all know kids NEVER eat and they will simply wither away to nothing if they don’t eat in the car and continue to contaminate my backseat so my car will have no resale value when I go to sell it later this year. Then Soleil goes to prove that the English language is beyond my comprehension.
"Mommy, did you have fun at work?"
"Sort of, I mostly had meetings and I was writing software to help me solve a problem"
"Oh, mommy, that sounds like you had fun"
(You don’t know the half of it honey) I think
"Mommy?"
"Yes Sylv?"
"Did you know Noggin has a depressed show?"
"What?"
"On Noggin. One of the shows is depressed."
(utter confusion from me, Dr. Jay is laughing)
"Soleil, I don’t understand. What do you mean?"
"On Noggin Mommy! The show Blue’s Clues. It’s depressed! Blue means depressed!" (in a tone indicative of her parent’s stupidity)
"Oh, I see" and then I bent over the steering wheel laughing….
