Category: life
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Just Do It
I have started to experience these kinds of bizarre out-of-context sentences once again as my children have started playing Minecraft. “I covered my place in Creeper heads.” “Oh man, that’s creepy.” Yeah. It is creepy. As are the discussions about the pros and cons of killing livestock and villagers.
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Not a Trick Question
So…English. Lots of the names for animals for when they’re alive and needing to be tended are Germanic: Cow, Pig, Sheep. But the words for when they’re prepared as food are Frankish: Beef, Pork, Lamb. Probably because at one point the Frankish conquerors were the upper-class eating the food raised by the lower-class Germanic folk….
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From Your Mother
To be clear, this is more about predisposition to symptoms – when it comes to passing on an illness in our house it’s almost always from kid to parent and not the other way around.
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Majestically
Whenever I hear the word “majestic” I think of Prince John in Disney’s Robin Hood agreeing with his fortune telling: “Handsome, regal, majestic, ha ha. Lovable, yes, yes. Cuddly. Oh, that’s me to a T. It truly is.”
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Help Me Fix My Mistakes
Maybe it would have worked out regardless. I know when I’m on the other end, like on servicing, I’m more likely to want to put in the extra effort to make a not-strictly-required ask work for a customer when they frame it as “yes, we know it’s our fault, but please help us anyway.”
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All Ready?
A question everyone has been asking for weeks: “Are you ready for school to start?” Well, sure, except for this one thing that would literally prevent our child from being allowed to attend.
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No Really
I met someone with this last name recently and wondered how often they get Dad-joked about their name.
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Aha Moment
She ran into the room, didn’t search at all, and exclaimed “aha” as if she’d discovered him. It was perfectly convincing and very efficient, as her brother popped right out of his very good hiding spot. Real outside-the-box thinking.
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In My Image
I’m quite fortunate that my kids don’t throw up nearly as much as I did as a child – none of them inherited my motion sickness for basically all forms of transport (and I mostly grew out of it).
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Semantic Sticks
This was said with complete sincerity. Apparently “drumstick” doesn’t classify as a “stick” despite the seemingly obvious name clues.