Miss E is watching Drake and Josh on Nick Replay. The two boys, ‘Drake and Josh’ have an annoying little sister who is some kind of genius and is always playing tricks on them.
Mr B: “They should just slap her.”
Miss E: “Dad, she will get them back by doing really bad stuff to them.”
Mr B: “Yes, but she’s one teeny tiny girl and they’re two teenage boys, they could squash her.”
Miss E: “Dad, you don’t understand, she can clone herself and everything so they never get her back. They never win, so they’re scared of her.”
Mr B: “Nope, I still think mindless violence would be the way to go for them.”
I raise my eyebrows at him and then at Miss E. She tuts and shakes her head at me grinning, then turns to Mr B, places her hands firmly on her hips and says,
Miss E: “No, that wouldn’t work, and anyway, she can do OBOE.”
The word hangs in the air for a moment as we wait to see if Miss E modifies her statement with, ’so she plays it so loud it deafens them and then she stamps on their toes’, or, ’so she lulls them into a false sense of security by playing a bit of Bach before ramming it up their nostrils.’
..but there is nothing.
She stands triumphant and watches her daddy quizzically as his shoulders start to shake.
“So she defeats them with the power of woodwind does she, hee hee, ha ha, snort?”
Miss E looks at me and seeing my smile realizes it is probable that ‘oboe’ is not actually a kind of martial art, so she jumps on top of Mr B and hides her embarrassment by wrestling him and squeezing his nose.
It seems Mr B was right, when all else fails mindless violence is the only way to go.
June 21st, 2008 at 10:28 am
My mom used to love using my brother’s mistakes in her language class. He used to call my dad’s mustache a “busmash”. She also liked how I called the evil queen Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty “Promefeclate”.
We are scarred for life about our mispronunciations now…just to let you know.
June 21st, 2008 at 10:44 am
I don’t think she had much choice. It was either mindless violence, or humiliation. I’ll skip humiliation every time.
June 21st, 2008 at 11:42 am
Malaprop is such a fantastic word.
June 21st, 2008 at 3:24 pm
I’d use Oboe if I had a score to settle.
June 21st, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Hee hee…what a clever girl!
June 21st, 2008 at 6:16 pm
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww…I love this story. You wrapped it up perfectly! like a present.
thanks!
June 21st, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Hah! I laughed out loud at Oboe!!!
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:28 am
Drake and Josh and their bratty sister – UGH! I have to watch that show, too. And people tell us Gilda looks like the bratty girl now and then. Oh joy.
Oboe sounds… scary?! Hahahaa
June 22nd, 2008 at 10:42 am
Lilacspecs, hee hee, Promefeclate is hilarious and busmash is very cute. Hope you’re over the humiliation now, hee hee.
Jan, it was very cute though. We have to get some kicks as adults, hee hee.
Dan, it really is.
WT, definitely. Oboes are scary.
Kim, she was all embarrassed and cute. If she’d got mad we’d have stopped but she was giggling too.
Corey thanks sweetie.
Maureen, it was really funny.;)
Sybil, don’t you just want to slap that kid? I mean, we don’t smack but that kid is just sooo annoying. She’s very pretty though so Gilda must be a little stunner.
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:38 pm
I love Mr B’s “they should just slap her comment” but I’m not sure I should!!!
June 22nd, 2008 at 4:30 pm
can you do that? can you lull someone into a false sense of security with the oboe? i HAVE to get me one! we’ve been trying to lull someone into a false sense of security with the sax, but all we get is a false sense of coolness, and that makes you really powerful somehow. so we’re just getting it all wrong. also, we’ve been going for mozart where we should have gone for bach. this is going nowhere. i’m going to bed. missburrows should feel fine to follow this comment too.
(snort at WT’s *score* comment.)
June 28th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Oboe sounds so much more intimidating than Judo. If I had my druthers, I think I’d prefer a black belt in Oboe. After all, music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, no?