Monday, July 10, 2006 - Misconceptions
I remember as a little girl mishearing words or phrases my parents or others said. For a long time, I thought the expression "to each his own" was "to reach its own." And "the pot calling the kettle black" was "the pot coal and the kettle black." Made sense to me.
Today, Emily, 8, was trying to convince me how nice it would be to visit Florida. I'm not a fan of Florida after spending 2 1/2 weeks there in 1987 during "bootcamp" with Teen Missions. Hot, humid, buggy...not my idea of a fun place to re-visit. Emily was talking about the beaches, so I mentioned a little word: alligators.
Her eyes grew wide. "You mean they roam freely down there? Even at the resorts?"
I said sure they did sometimes. Stuart interjected that they only eat the occasional tourist. I quickly added that they preferred frogs or ducks or other little creatures they could easily catch.
"Poor froggies and duckies!" Emily said which surprised us since eating a person should have been much more horrifying.
We laughed and said as much to which Emily replied with a shrug, "Terrorists should be eaten."
"Tourists...NOT terrorists," we explained. The penny dropped.
But maybe Emily's on to something... Maybe we should suggest that the government use alligators to help apprehend terrorists. They're cheap to hire and only require the occasional terrorist to keep them satisfied.
Comments
Monday, July 10, 2006 - Terrorists
Posted by Anonymous
Here's an idea, forget the fence along the Mexico border, instead dig a big ditch. Fill the ditch with alligators from Florida.
Benefits:
- Ditches are cheaper than fences.
- No more illegal immigrants.
- Happy Florida tourists.
- Happy aligators.
I'm surprised that no one else thought of this!
A.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006 - Milk out of your nose funny!
Posted by amlp311
Emily is so classic, I could have choked when I read this! That was great and I love the thought of the whole "alligators fighting terrorism thing". Thanks for the laugh today, I needed it!
