Talking with 2-year-olds

[rampion]

He's a strange kid, my Leif. The conversations we have are... unexpected. Always. I imagine that's just the two-year-old experience, but still, worth sharing

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He's right.

[seouledout]

For anatomy, to be deciduous the whole thing has to fall off. This will benefit him though, since the returning penis should be larger, and, if deciduous penises work like antlers, it will have an extra branch. That's bound to get him some ladies, or at least some look-at-the-freak money.

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[rampion]

Well, he's definitely smarter than I am. He may know exactly what he's talking about. (Honestly, I can't make assumptions anymore about what he knows and what he understands. He stuns me daily.)

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[fredcritter]

Joe Haldeman wrote a song about a guy like that. It's a hoot. It's also the only song I know that uses the word "peregrinations."

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[fredcritter]

Well, sort of like that. It's "The Ballad of Stan Long (a sexist epic)".

[I notice the person doing the entry on that page simply typed an "e" with an acute accent in the word forté instead of coding it, so it came out "~B" on my Mac instead of "é". (And the word "(Footnote)" usually gets sung/performed/spoken as an aside: "I'd better explain…".) Ah well.]

[conandammit]

I used to have a deciduous penis too.

Then the loggers came.

Now I have a stump.

On the bright side, some very nice dining room sets were made out of my penis.

[conandammit]

that conversation reminds me of an episode of 'Connections' that I once saw.

[notbatman]

Here I was about to make fun of you for raising a nerd when I remembered that Hunter keeps asking how the sun and moon work. He's starting to ask more and more involved questions about it, which alarms me.

I can't wait for him to be able to read for himself so I can relax and go back to being dumb all the time again...

[rampion]

I'm just glad that Leif will have other nerdy friends to play with. Chances are they'll be big enough boys that "nerd" will have to become the new cool anyway.

[mpuzzle]

Did you ask him why his penis is deciduous? Or were you too busy trying not to die laughing? Does he actually expect it to fall off in the fall? That would make peeing awfully difficult.

[rampion]

I tried to find out, but his attention had shifted elsewhere already. I don't think he thinks his penis will fall off. Maybe he's just likening it to a tree? Who knows?! As I told seoldout, Leif's much smarter than I am. I can only guess what he's really thinking.

He'd be totally bummed if he couldn't pee standing anymore.