Monday, July 14, 2008

Humerous Homonym

So some of the Beavers were gathered for our weekly Sunday lunch yesterday. After lunch my nephew, John Keil (will be 4 y/o in Sept), was in the playroom.He came into the living room and handed his dad one of those kids meal prizes asking him to open it. I'm assuming he thought it would be crayons because it was rectangular and wrapped in cardboard. So Nathan opened it up and it was a cassette tape. John Keil inquired what it was and Nathan replied "its a tape buddy." He then took his prize and walked off. Not two minutes later he came back into the living room with the cassette tape in one hand and the inerds (the part that makes it have sound) hanging down to the ground. He stated in a exasperated tone "It's not tearing off! It won't tear off!" He thought it was sticky tape not listening tape becuase he being born in 2004 has never incountered a cassette tape! I tired to tell him it was like a CD that you listen to- then he said "Oh!" like 'Why didn't you jokers say that in the first place!"

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