Reruns of The Great British Bake Off are showing on our local PBS station, and Spouse was watching it this afternoon. At one point, ominous music accompanied the failure of a cake ( Read more... )

Youngest child is very into Frozen, and middle child, while claiming to dislike it, can be regularly caught singing "Let it Go" or "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?"

So after reading some reviews of the Macavoy & Radcliffe Frankenstein, I now have "Do you want to build a monster?" going through my head.

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Middle Child to Youngest Child: "Maple syrup is tree blood. So when we eat maple syrup on our waffles, we're being vampires of trees!"

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[while middle son is watching sundry Love Bug & sequels clips on Youtube ( Read more... )

(After yet another morning of PBS Kids)

Spouse: Curious George would be so much better if it turned out to be a crossover with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Then at the end you could have the Man in the Yellow Hat walking around the psychiatric hospital carrying his toy monkey.

Other crossovers we came up with:

The Man in the Yellow Wallpaper. ( Read more... )

"And now that they've been pushed into the ocean, Godzilla and MechaGodzilla will perform a synchronized swimming act!"

Middle Son was suitably amused/perplexed.

(This is Godzilla. This, in spite of appearances, is MechaGodzilla. Middle Son takes after me in renaming his toys after characters in his fandoms.)

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In the "fun with middle son's bizarre syntax" department:

Middle son: I want to see four white boys with instruments on Youtube.

Castiron: ????

Middle son: The four boys with white dresses!

Castiron:  Oh, you want to see the Greek Thinkers song.

(Are the Horrible Histories books worth acquiring?  Our library doesn't have any of them in English [though ( Read more... )

1.   You know those decals that parents put in their car's rear window to brag about what school sport their kid plays?  (For readers unfamiliar with this bit of possibly-regional American culture, here's an example.)  Spouse keeps saying he wants to make and sell some with first names of famous dictators.  I now want a set that references Marvel's ( Read more... )

Me to spouse:  "You know, if we had named kid #3 Faraday, then we could've called his playpen the Faraday Cage."

Chekhov's Baby: If there is an infant being fed on stage in Act 1, then there must be a full diaper by Act 3.

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Spouse's new idea for a horror movie: "The Island of Dr. Thoreau."

(Presumably it's full of people claiming to be going back to nature and the simple life while mooching off their friends.)

And then there's the Island of Yves Moreau, where strange and horrifying creatures do Bulgarian and Quebecois folk dances....

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