Tonight Chancho thought he'd try out a joke on String Cheese. Most of us enjoyed this one at some point in our childhood. It is the "under where? (underwear)?" Joke. It went like this:
C: String Cheese, what's that under there?
SC: What?
C: What is under there?
SC: What are you talking about? What under what?
C: What is that thing under THERE?
(both are starting to get a little exasperated)
SC: What THING?
C: Never mind, I was just trying to tell you a joke.
SC: But what thing are you talking about?
C: That cat. Why is that cat under there?
SC: What cat? Under WHAT???!!!
Deedle pipes in.
D: What thing under what, Dad? What cat?
Me: When he says, 'under there', you're supposed to ask, 'under where'.
SC: Okay, try it again Dad.
C: What is that under there?
SC: Under where?
C: Ha! You said 'underwear'!
Deedle, String Cheese, and Loumy start laughing hysterically.
Luckily the word "underwear" is hilarious to children between the ages of 3 and 6 no matter how long it takes for the joke to come around.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
The Joke that Wasn't
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You are the nice mom that at least helps them out. I kind of like to leave my kids hangin' and confused. Try that next time - it will make YOU laugh hysterically.
Good mom. Funny kids.
Oh don't you love the constant confusion though? It makes for an entertaining life.
Last night my girls had their weekly sleep-out, where they watch a movie downstairs in the playroom and then sleep there. Well last night little dude got to join them and sat through an entire viewing of Chicken Little. When it was over we had everyone brush their teeth and said a goodnight prayer. I then told the girls to go back down and I would "turn it on for them" (meaning another movie. I was trying to be sneaky so that little dude wouldn't catch on then think that he got to stay up for another movie. NoniGirl was all like "TURN WHAT ON!?" I would then wave her away and tell her to go back downstairs, but she kept at it with her boisterous questioning to the point that I was like "never mind then I won't turn anything on!" Of course this was followed by hysterics from NoniGirl.
Aaaaaaaagh!!!!
Ohh, I love that joke. We'd say it all the time and no one ever ever responded under where? Part of the problem was we always thought it said, "What ya EATIN' under there?" So usually they'd be like, "Huh? I'm not eating anything." Or, if they were eating something, they'd say what it was. Either way, that grand joke has always been associated with loads of "WHats?" ANd "Huhs?" Still, I'm going to go try it on my kids right away! They loooovvvee jokes!
I can so my little cuties having that conversation. I was laughing out loud. That was my favorite kind of post. I love your family....
Oh that was a funny one...I can so picture me instead of Jason trying to do this with my kids and no one getting it or responding how you would like...oh chilluns..you got to love em!
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