Monday, December 18, 2006

creative uses of speech

Firstborn was playing Paper Mario.

A new character was added to the game play; Madame Fleurry. The character is a personified cloud, a 40 something diva with exagerated curves and full red lips as any middle aged diva cloud would look.

Lastborn exclaimed "gross" when he saw her. I wanted to find out what bothered him about the new character. I thought he feared the big lipped character would want to kiss all the other characters. This would be gross to a 6 yo.

"She has big boobies," he replied instead.

I was surprised with the answer and wondered what about well endowed women was so bothersome to him. So displacing my disgust at his word choice, I asked, "What's so bad about big boobies. I have big boobies. Am I gross?

"No," he replied. "You don't have big boobies like that. Her big boobies look like but cheeks stuck to her chest."

Well there you have it. But cheeks on the chest are gross. Makes perfect sense to me.

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