June 2008 archive

Kids write about the ocean

Another installment in the style of Kids Say the Darndest Things, these are the thoughts that some children have about the ocean: This is a picture of an octopus. It has eight testicles. —Kelly, age 6 Oysters’ balls are called pearls. —Jerry, age 6 If you are surrounded by ocean you are an Island. If …

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A huge loss for comedy

On Sunday, at the age of 71, George Carlin died of heart failure. He was certainly a comedic icon, probably most remembered for “Al the Hippy Dippy Weatherman,” the “7 words you can’t say on television,” or just his general antistructuralistic sentiments. He leaves behind a generation of comics that modeled their humour and their …

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What are those used for?

I recently got this cute email from a friend, and just thought I would share it here. 🙂 Two young boys walked into a pharmacy one day, picked out a box of tampons and proceeded to the checkout counter. The man at the counter asked the older boy, “Son, how old are you?” “Eight,” the …

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