Saturday, March 21, 2020

Turns of Speech

James: "I don't want to eat my breakfast because it looks like a bowl of colorless, tasteless sludge."
"Owen is being QUITE difficult."

"This is very peculiar, isn't it?"
Me: "What's peculiar?"
"I was talking to Hobbes."


Owen <watching the final act of The Last Jedi and seeing Princess Leia enter the scene>
"Who's that? Is that Obi-wan Kenobi?"
Me: "No, that's Princess Leia."
"It doesn't look like her."
Me: "Well, she's much older now."
"Yeah, she sure looks different than she did in Return of the Jedi."
<Luke Skywalker enters>
"Great. Now they're probably going to start kissing."
Felix: "They should kiss."

Felix has developed a recurring enclitic. He tacks on the word "ago" to the end of every sentence whether it makes sense or not. Samples:
"My Big George got mud on hisself ago."
"I need a soccer ball in my crib when I do bedtime ago."
"This tent is from Critmit (Chrismas) ago."
"Why you drink your coffee on the floor ago?"

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