Saturday, June 10, 2006

Statistically improbable phrases

No, not the ones that are part of Amazon's search feature; I'm talking about an entirely different sort of improbable phrase. Once you become a parent, you find yourself uttering phrases that you never in the world suspected would come out of your (or, really, anyone's) mouth. This is especially frequent once your child begins talking. Some of these phrases, such as "Is there corn in your nose?" and "Did you just hit your brother with a spatula?" and "No, you can't throw a pillow at your brother in his bouncy chair. Where did you get that idea?" are probably pretty common. However, some of them, such as "No, you were not born at the zoo," and "Not all airplanes are flying to Arizona," and (my current favorite) "Yes, your pink blanket is on vacation with the giraffes," are not so common. They're pretty darn entertaining, though.

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