humor

The Lame Man

/ joeygibson

Tonight we were doing my son’s Bible homework. This involved my reading a scripture passage and them having him answer some questions about it. The scripture in question was Acts 3.

Me OK. This is Acts 3: The Healing of the Lame Man. Do you know what “lame” means?
Thomas Yeah. It means “boring” or “stupid.”
Me …

I couldn’t help but laugh. He wasn’t amused because he thought I was laughing at him, but I was able to convince him that I wasn’t.

Dancing Lego Trooper

/ joeygibson

My 7 year old son’s favorite GameCube game right now is Lego Star Wars. Yep, a video game of the Star Wars prequel trilogy, with everything made of Lego blocks. It’s quite cute and fun and he loves it. Anyway, he discovered a few weeks ago that if you control any of the Storm Trooper characters, move him to the window inside Dexter’s Diner and try to slowly walk through the glass, the movement looks like a funny little dance. So funny, in fact, that we cackle like hyaenas whenever he does it.

The other night I brought my digital camera down and filmed a few seconds of one of these dancing troopers. Click on the trooper image to see it. You’ll need QuickTime or something that can play that format. YMMV, but I thought it was quite funny.

Getting Out the Crèche

/ joeygibson

So the other night we were finishing up the decking of the halls here at Chez Gibson when my seven-year-old son Thomas asked the following question

Mom, when are we gonna get out that thing? You know… the thing with the Jesus action figures?

He meant our Nativity scene…

I was half asleep in my luxurious leather chair when he said it, but I did hear it. I got a good chuckle out of that because he meant it so seriously and honestly.

Business Advice

/ joeygibson

Tuesday night my wife, son and I were coming home from a lovely dinner out. I was talking about stuff going on at work when Thomas (my wonderful 7-year-old boy) began the following conversation with me. (I’ve changed some of the names.)

Thomas What are you talking about?
Me Well, there are these people called Venture Capitalists and they have lots and lots and lots and lots of money. They try to find small companies that they can give this money to to help them become big companies so they can all make lots more money. And so, Mr. White and Mr. Pink are going to do a presentation to these people to try to convince them that our company is a good one to invest in.
Thomas Maybe they could do a puppet show for them!
Me A puppet show, eh?
Thomas Yeah. They could have sock puppets and do that to get them to give you some money. It would be great!
Me Yeah, it probably would be.

I just love how simple his world view is at this point.

Aggregating Gone Awry

/ joeygibson

I have news.google.com as my browser start page, and this morning I saw something funny. Unfortunately the humor was contained in the blurb of a story about the death of Rosa Parks. The humor came in because when Google pulled the story from the Indianapolis Star, the text of an advertisement got munged into the story. Check out this screen shot to see for yourself. (I highlighted the ad in yellow.)