Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: cozmik_cowboy on January 09, 2020, 07:45:01 PM
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We were just Skyping with our 3-y-o grandson in AK, and was showing all his dinosaur toys, dinosaur books, dinosaur clothes (I could go on, but you get the drift), and telling all about each one ("Is the a T. Rex, Rudy?" "No, Granddude - see the big claw on top of its foot? It's a .......[hey, he's the expert, not me]) what they each ate, etc., and I had a thought:
Why isn't a carnivore something that only eats the guy who runs the Tilt-A-Whirl?
Peter (who, you will note, didn't say it was a good thought........)
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I'll see your Tilt-A-Whirl, and raise you Monsieur Cannibale (https://www.eftepedia.nl/lemma/Monsieur_Cannibale). And yes, in this day and age it's a controversial kiddy ride:
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If I didn't regularly have thoughts like that I would suggest that you be sent to your room, Peter.
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Why is it called “Ovalteen”? The jar in round, the opening is round, the cap is round. Shouldn’t it be called “Roundteen”?
And in this age of political, non-sexist, correctness, shouldn’t the Mailman be called the “Person Person”?
Bill, tgo
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I posited the same query to a friend; he responded "Same reason they're called hemorrhoids instead of asteroids."
Peter