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[coldfrog]

Did you know that at the zoo, OWL...SLEEPING...TIRED?

Nice lead up, the intro was sufficiently vague to keep a good feeling of suspense.  I had originally suspected you might continue to the chimpanzee, an ironic metaphor for their blatant captivity compared to our blind belief in freedom in a controlling society, but the owl caught me by surprise.  I felt that once the owl, normally associated with its ever-present vigilance, has suddenly become tired, sleeping and missing the downfall of our society.  While the watcher rests, the rats, so to say, roam free, giving the unmentionables of society even more power and letting them chew on our electrical wires and leave tiny turds of oppression in our cabinets and garages.  My only criticism is that you failed to expound further on your ideas, possibly holding on to that classic proverb, brevity is the soul of wit.  And this dark and prophetic tale certainly has the prospect of becoming one of the great tales of classic literature for many years to come.

Unfortunately, we wasted our budget on The DaVinci Code 2.  Better luck next time.

[Victoria Waterfield]

"Current toddler status, 2/1

When pressed into service for a twenty-five minute bedtime narrative, the generative technique of “free association” proves far superior to the traditional storytelling methods of plot development, resolution, and moral allegory."

This... this is kind of sad to me.  My favourite bedtime story I can remember from childhood is this one about a chicken and a... rabbit, I think? So the rabbit and chicken lived in this house in the woods, and the chicken would tell the rabbit not to go into the woods, but the rabbit would anyway, and then it would get lost, and yell to the chicken for help, and the chicken heard it, and took it back home, and this happened twice, but the third time, the rabbit wandered so far into the woods that when it got lost and yelled, the chicken could not hear it, so it died. As I said at the beginning, this is my favourite childhood bedtime story.

[theinevitable]

when I was a kid my dad told really good bedtime stories. i mean, I assume he still would, if called into service.
The best was a story which had many variants, involving the place/planet/town where they say everything twice everything twice. As a child, I found this concept hilarious.

it makes me kind of sad that as I got older, it turned into a weird Star Trek thing. I have a kind of depressing memory of liking Star Trek entirely because I thought my dad liked it-- which makes me think that even at that young age, I realized that I was missing out on male bonding by not being into sports.

[Muse_Of_Fire]

My dad used to read me the American Declaration of Independence, and also the US Constitution, as bedtime stories. I think he thought it would make me fall asleep, but I found them fascinating and would often request them at bedtime.


*cries* God, I'm such a geek.

[Alternate]

My favorite bedtime story was the one about Galileo And The Scientific Method.  In general my dad's bedtime stories were all kind of about Religion and Science competing for my allegiance, and Science winning. 

[jay-ell]

I didn't get bedtime stories. 

Ever. 




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I guess I'm supposed to be scarred by this, or something? 

[Bjorn the Destroyer]

Nah. I didn't get any bedtime stories either. And I turned out fine.

[Carlos del Vaca]

For a time, Mrs. del Vaca took my our oldest to a weekly playgroup at a church near our house.  At the final meeting before summer break, they gave all the kids little children's Bibles.  And now she sometimes requests stories from it at bedtime.

Which freaks me the hell out, since we're not really Christians.

[wombat]

No, that's perfectly appropriate - she clearly recognizes the stories as fiction, then, right?

[theinevitable]

yeah. my sister used to get upset when we didn't pray before meals-- "but my teacher says you have to do that!"

that was a bad scene in general.

also the time my mom found out that my sister's babysitter was reading her stories out of The Watchtower.

[Carlos del Vaca]

No, that's perfectly appropriate - she clearly recognizes the stories as fiction, then, right?

Uh, no.  She has said she believes in Jesus.
Whether she actually understands what that means is open to debate, of course.
We want to find a "World Religions for Kids" book of some sort, so we can get it into her head that there's lots of interpretations of this religion thing.

[jay-ell]

See, as a churchgoing Christian person, I'm actually pretty offended by the idea of people who attempt to educate other people's children about religion without express permission. 

I'm a little nervous about sending my kids to Sunday School classes because regardless of what the church believes you never know what some whacked-out teacher is going to tell them.  For instance, the church my parents go to had to kick out a husband and wife who were basically Morman spies pretending to be Baptists to they could indoctrinate preschoolers.  And another guy at the same church told the entire high school youth group that Catholics aren't really Christians and therefore will burn in hell. 

And then there's the other side of the coin.  When I was growing up, Sunday school was basically where we sat in a circle and colored pictures and listened to "bible stories" which were presented like fairy tales.  It's like being a Christian is about learning a collection of stories that promote a common body of literature but serve no instructive purpose.  I'd rather have someone tell my kid that there is no God but Allah and Muhammed is his prophet so that when he comes home and asks me what that means we can have a meaningful conversation about why different people believe different things. 

But that might just be me. 

[Drygioni]

Current toddler status, 2/7
Lady and the Tramp continuity error no. 2: in the classic meatball/spaghetti sequence, Tramp has a 3cm lipoma that is not present in the rest of the film.

[Beatrice]

a totally revolting picture of a lipoma

the tramp doesn't know what he's in for.  (thanks, wikipedia!)

EDITED by V because I was eating and do not want to see this image repeatedly every time I open this thread

[linnea]

I had a lipoma on my back that was the size of a golf ball. Lipomas are ALMOST ALWAYS benign.

Apparently Labrador Retrievers get them a lot, too.

It was a simple outpatient procedure to get it removed.  It wasn't as fascinating as I thought to see it removed from my body. They sent it to pathology, who apparently sieved it to make sure it was totally benign. It was. End of story.

I named my lipoma Alan after a guy that I disliked.