Minister (at the start of his children's address): Do any of you know what this is? (he holds up an object for the kids to look at). Kids: .... (well, what did you expect half a dozen 4 to 8 year old kids to say?) Minister: It's a plug. (you might suspect he's leading up to a discussion of the Trinity) Kid: That's not a plug! It's a socket! Minister: oh...
And so, as the youngest kid there, I started a lifetime of nit-picking...
We went to a wedding on Saturday. The best man's speech was one of those ones with long pauses (as we have all learnt to do in our presentation skills training at work). The effect was rendered even more comic by the 2-year old son of one of our work colleagues making slightly inappropriate remarks in a very clear, loud voice during every one of these pauses!
eg Best Man: "I hope you all had a pleasant journey here with not too many delays." Small Child, ironically: "What? Delays?"
Much laughter which of course only provided more encouragement... the parents tried to shut the child up by feeding him the emergency rations, but this failed to render the comments any less audible!
Excellent. I'm sort of looking forward to that stage with El - sort of... Currently his comments are random ("Dad-dad" and "num, num!" are most common, with an occasional "Mum-mum") and typically only audible within a small radius!
"Num, num!" is funny isn't it. A few months ago Katy started saying it while feeding her animals, and only then I remembered that that IS what you said as a kid to indicate eating: "Num, num, num." I'd totally forgotten that before. Neuromancer.
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Minister (at the start of his children's address): Do any of you know what this is? (he holds up an object for the kids to look at).
Kids: .... (well, what did you expect half a dozen 4 to 8 year old kids to say?)
Minister: It's a plug. (you might suspect he's leading up to a discussion of the Trinity)
Kid: That's not a plug! It's a socket!
Minister: oh...
And so, as the youngest kid there, I started a lifetime of nit-picking...
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eg Best Man: "I hope you all had a pleasant journey here with not too many delays."
Small Child, ironically: "What? Delays?"
Much laughter which of course only provided more encouragement... the parents tried to shut the child up by feeding him the emergency rations, but this failed to render the comments any less audible!
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We are at 4 Evesham Green (The Green is off Savanake Road - WHich is off Meadowcroft at thr Ring Road End ...
Be great if you can make it ...
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