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I come home and my son is wearing a white shirt, a bow tie, and a towel over his arm. He tells me he’s a butler. And we have this conversation:
Me: Do you know how to buttle?
My son: Huh?
Me: Readers read. Builders build. So butlers buttle.
My son: How do you buttle?
Me: Well you’re the butler, tell me.
My son: Butlers don’t buttle.
Me: Sure they do. Planters plant. Gardeners garden. Drivers drive. Fingers fing.
My son: Fingers don’t fing.
Me: Do you know what a fing is?
My son: No.
Me: Then how do you know?
December 23rd, 2013 at 11:31 pm
I have four, nothing like baffling them with BS, even as the get old enough to catch on!
December 24th, 2013 at 12:16 am
Never curb a son’s enthusiasm for serving his Dad. It will diminish quickly enough on its own,
December 24th, 2013 at 10:57 am
Response #1: Always be truthful with your children, the world is so full of liars it’s nice to know they can at least come home and find truth.
Response #2: Bingo!
December 24th, 2013 at 2:27 pm
Sounds like a conversation I could have had with my Dad. He took BSing to Doctorate levels. 🙂
December 24th, 2013 at 7:15 pm
LOL, you’re having fun with this aren’t you! 🙂 Merry Christmas to you and yours! And best wishes for 2014!
December 27th, 2013 at 12:19 am
But… but… “buttle” is used as a verb in Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”. (Of course, it’s used as a gag.) I get a big kick out of recording on paper my son’s little zings/witticisms. HAPPY NEW YEAR, UNCLE.
December 28th, 2013 at 8:07 pm
Just wait. Payback is a bitch. They get to mess with you when your old and senile.
December 30th, 2013 at 7:24 am
Actually, “buttle” is a legitimate (albeit slangy) word, the first citations of which are immediately after the American Civil War. Kudoi (“kudos” is singular) to Uncle for enlarging his son’s vocabulary.