Two More Conversations
Unfortunately, I can't claim that these occurred with a two-year-old like in my last post, but rather with my mother (sorry mom).
Apples to Apples
If you've never played the game, it's where one player puts down an adjective card and the other players pick a noun card that seems to fit the adjective from their hand of 7 cards. Here's a snippet from a game between my husband, my mother, my father-in-law, and me:
My mother puts down the card 'refined'
The cards that come in: 'Celine Dion', 'Oprah Winfrey', and 'Stonehenge' (sometimes a player has nothing in their hand that will fit - I didn't)
My mother reading the cards: 'Sea-line De-ion' Whoever that is.
Rory, wincing: ugh. (ok, so I guess we know who put down that card. My father-in law looks quite pleased - you know he's thinking he has it in the bag with Oprah)
Mom reads the next card: 'Or-pah Win-free' Who's that?
At this point in the game, I turn to my father-in-law (who is no longer looking confident that he's going to win this round) and inform him that this is why I suck at popular culture when we play Trivial Pursuit. It's because I was raised by my mom.
I then turn to my mom & inform her that Oprah was originally supposed to be named after Orpah, but the mom mixed it up and wrote Oprah down on the birth certificate.
At this point my mom finally has an inkling of just who this is and ask quizzically, 'wait, is that that black woman on TV?'
What happens when you only hear part of a conversation
Rory: We learned about exculpatory evidence in class today.
I'm not quite sure what 'exculpatory' (sounds a bit like 'exskulpatory' when you say it aloud) is, so I probe: I have visions of people missing the hair and skin on their heads...
Rory: Well, you know in court, the prosecution is required to provide evidence.... (he launches into a lengthy, boring legal explanation, which I will spare everyone from here)
Me: Ok, it means 'exonerate'. The way it sounds, it reminded me of scalping.
Mom: 'Wait, they do this to criminals?!'
Apples to Apples
If you've never played the game, it's where one player puts down an adjective card and the other players pick a noun card that seems to fit the adjective from their hand of 7 cards. Here's a snippet from a game between my husband, my mother, my father-in-law, and me:
My mother puts down the card 'refined'
The cards that come in: 'Celine Dion', 'Oprah Winfrey', and 'Stonehenge' (sometimes a player has nothing in their hand that will fit - I didn't)
My mother reading the cards: 'Sea-line De-ion' Whoever that is.
Rory, wincing: ugh. (ok, so I guess we know who put down that card. My father-in law looks quite pleased - you know he's thinking he has it in the bag with Oprah)
Mom reads the next card: 'Or-pah Win-free' Who's that?
At this point in the game, I turn to my father-in-law (who is no longer looking confident that he's going to win this round) and inform him that this is why I suck at popular culture when we play Trivial Pursuit. It's because I was raised by my mom.
I then turn to my mom & inform her that Oprah was originally supposed to be named after Orpah, but the mom mixed it up and wrote Oprah down on the birth certificate.
At this point my mom finally has an inkling of just who this is and ask quizzically, 'wait, is that that black woman on TV?'
What happens when you only hear part of a conversation
Rory: We learned about exculpatory evidence in class today.
I'm not quite sure what 'exculpatory' (sounds a bit like 'exskulpatory' when you say it aloud) is, so I probe: I have visions of people missing the hair and skin on their heads...
Rory: Well, you know in court, the prosecution is required to provide evidence.... (he launches into a lengthy, boring legal explanation, which I will spare everyone from here)
Me: Ok, it means 'exonerate'. The way it sounds, it reminded me of scalping.
Mom: 'Wait, they do this to criminals?!'