Friday, January 13, 2006

no knowledge is too much to bear in the end

Conversation today in the SlaughterHouse:

Molly: Mom, what does it mean to have a sense of humor?
Kristen: What do you think it means?
M: To really know a lot about life and stuff?
K: Well, mostly it means that if someone has a good sense of humor, they laugh a lot, and make
others laugh and have a good time.
M: Do they tell silly jokes and love to hear jokes?
K: Yes, usually they do.
M: Then I guess Papa has the best sense of humor I've ever heard of!

Out of the mouth of babes...

10 comments:

Anne said...

aww, how sweet! she still thinks Dad's jokes are funny!

Papa said...

From the first, I knew that Molly possessed an intellect that would boggle our minds. And that has been born out by her insight and wisdom.
I still remember this exchange a while back.

Me: See you Hot Tamale (meaning, tomorrow)
Molly: See you Hot to Papa

In her ears, I must have said "Hot to Molly". From then on, we would tell each other that.

And I still miss them all.

Anonymous said...

lol now that she's in Virginia, she'll always think that dad's jokes are funny because she's not around to hear him tell them over and over and over again=P lol j/k

T2Irish said...

we ROTC students used to laugh because we wanted to get commissioned

Anne said...

aha. the truth comes out.

Kristen said...

So what's your excuse for laughing now, Trish?

Anonymous said...

she has no excuse...my guess is that she's stopped laughing by now=P

Papa said...

I also told the ROTC students that the Alamo was the cradle of Western civilization. A couple of the engineering majors probably believed me since they had never had a Western culture class before.

T2Irish said...

which was almost as good as some people choosing "TONTO" as the newest treaty...standing for "the ontological treaty organization." Though having grown up in Car country, (Oldsmobile) I couldn't understand how Alamo car rental had anything to do with western civilization.

Kristen said...

Trish, you're a scream!