I may be a bad influence
July 12, 2006
My best friend has a five-year-old. He’s a good kid, but there’s not much to talk to him about, and he always wants to talk and ask a bunch of questions and try to tell jokes he heard at school. So a conversation I got roped into yesterday went like this:
Him: “Why is six afraid of seven?”
Me: (I know the punchline but I’ll play along) “Why?”
“Because seven eight nine. Is that funny?”
“Kind of.”
“Why is seven afraid of ten?”
(This one I haven’t heard) “I don’t know.”
“Neither do I. What is ten afraid of?”
“Bears.”
“Bears? Why?”
(channeling Stephen Colbert) “Because bears are vicious killing machines.”
“Even Winnie the Pooh?”
“No, he’s a cartoon bear. They’re okay.”
“But if he were a real bear?”
“Then he’d be a vicious killing machine.”
“Then, then . . . I would beat him up!”
“That’s a good boy.”
Aggressively Christian Delaware school district
July 1, 2006
“Aggressive” and “Christian” are two words that shouldn’t have to be used in the same sentence, but you know how it goes sometimes:
