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Old 08-19-2007, 01:16 PM
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So my kid says....

Me and my son were driving down the road last night, when he starts talking about monster trucks (he's almost 4 yrs old).

Me: I know what a monster truck looks like.
Son: wait a minute...How do you know what a monster truck looks like??
Me: I'm over 40 years old - I've seen all kinds of stuff!
Son (after a brief moment of silence): "You saw Dinosaurs!?"



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This morning we went to a store to get a new squirtgun (the last chinese built model, broke). Somehow we talked about the store being open and people going there...

Me: Sure the store is open...they want people to come in and buy stuff so they can make money. That why they have stores to begin with...so they can take your money.
Son: You mean, like the Government?

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Old 08-19-2007, 02:12 PM
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Too cute!

Years ago I was working on my mother-in-law's dryer. It was making all kinds of racket so I thought I'd take it apart and see what's going on. My son was about 4 at the time. I was having some difficulties with the job though.

Me: Oh no, I'm in trouble now. I don't know how to put grandma's dryer back together.

Son: What the hell are you gonna do now, daddy?
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Old 08-19-2007, 05:31 PM
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I remember something a teenager asked me around 1992 when I would have been 28. He asked' "do you remember WW I?"
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Old 08-19-2007, 05:51 PM
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Kids know that stuff, for some reason I still call a back hoe and excavator my two year old says no dad that an excavator.
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Old 08-19-2007, 06:09 PM
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My wise -guy highschooler like to preface most questions about the past with, " Hey Dad, back in the day when you rode dinosaurs to school, did you...."
I think he is developing a bald spot on the top of his head from the galancing slaps.
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Old 08-19-2007, 09:09 PM
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My ex-wife had a dumb blonde moment....

when we first got married, she once asked me:

"on the way to the moon, did the astronauts pass the sun?"

after my disbelief at the absurd question, I told her that they would have but they didnt have their sunglasses with them so they went the other way.
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Old 08-19-2007, 11:45 PM
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i'm gonna look forward to those moments, but not for a looooong time. I hope.
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Old 08-19-2007, 11:49 PM
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Kids know that stuff, for some reason I still call a back hoe and excavator my two year old says no dad that an excavator.
You should see my little cousin! He is only 8 years old but knows his stuff cold. I'm like nice excavator, he is like no thats a Cat XXX.

Kids are cool.
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Old 08-20-2007, 07:20 AM
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You should see my little cousin! He is only 8 years old but knows his stuff cold. I'm like nice excavator, he is like no thats a Cat XXX.

Kids are cool.
When I was eight I knew a Buick from a Chevy from a pontiac etc. I also knew the sound of a flathead ford v8 from about two miles away. Course in those days the cars all looked different. It also helped if the ford had glass packs.

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Old 08-20-2007, 09:28 AM
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Kids are pretty funny, one thing is for sure they will tell you the truth.
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Old 08-20-2007, 09:31 AM
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Kids are pretty funny, one thing is for sure they will tell you the truth.
Yup. There are only two kinds of honest people in the world: small children, and drunks.
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Old 08-20-2007, 03:37 PM
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sunedog-son just turned 7 and I have been writing a letter to him describing his life since he was born. I plan to give it to him on his 18th birthday. It's up to 80 pages in MS Word so maybe I'm writing him a book. So I could give you guys dozens of funny (at least to me) things my son has said. This isn't the funniest, but it'll do for starters:

(My wife was watching a Miami University football game on TV while I was working in my garage.)

sunedog-wife to sunedog-son "Go tell your daddy Miami scored a touchdown."

sunedog-son (age 3) "Daddy, Mommy's Ami just scored a touchdown!"
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Old 08-20-2007, 03:40 PM
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Kids are pretty funny, one thing is for sure they will tell you the truth.
Then they become teenagers....
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Old 08-20-2007, 03:55 PM
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We have,among many colorful characters a fellow named Danny Ka**en.

As are many in this area his parents died and left him flush,and to judge by appearances he hasn't a Sou.
His chief distinction,besides being a busybody,always obstructing meetings in Town Hall and generally spending his useless time annoying folks. is that he always wears wooden shoes,yes,real Dutch wooden shoes.

I pointed him out to my daughter when she was 5. Even then she had a gift for spotting the outre',the bizarre,the fine line of demarcation betwixt sanity and oddity.

We frequently go to the Library where friend Danny sits in the magazine lounge reading the papers,too cheap to buy them.

My daughter,who has no fear in her nature, runs over to me,sez"Hey Carlos,wooden shoes is over there".

She then rounds up several friends from school,explains how things are and leads them to the magazine lounge and says"hey,wooden shoes,you sound like a drum when you walk on the sidewalk,Daddy says you better buy some cuprinol"....Danny harrumphs and raises the paper,covering his face while the children go about telling anyone who will listen about the wierdo with the smelly clothes and the yellow wooden shoes.
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Old 08-20-2007, 03:56 PM
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Kids are pretty funny, one thing is for sure they will tell you the truth.
Except to questions like, "What are you kids doing in there?" or "Who left this here?"

Then, they'll most likely tell you a lie.

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