We sang on long trips too.
Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
sumi - Apr 25, 2006 11:49:45 am PDT #9654 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Jesse - Apr 25, 2006 11:51:41 am PDT #9655 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I still sing in the car with my parents. And play the alphabet game. It's usually a two-hour drive to Thanksgiving dinner at my uncle's.
Scrappy - Apr 25, 2006 11:53:56 am PDT #9656 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We played words games, like Tom Swifties or Hink Pink. Oh, and annoyed each other.
JZ - Apr 25, 2006 12:21:58 pm PDT #9657 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
We played words games, like Tom Swifties or Hink Pink.
Oooh, we loved Hink Pink! I keep wanting to play it in the Zmayhem car, but I quail before the brute force of Emmett's and Hec's tandem eyerolls of disdain at my lameosity.
Now I totally want to take a road trip with Robin.
(Well, you know. As if I didn't already.)
Scrappy - Apr 25, 2006 12:56:33 pm PDT #9658 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Right back at ya.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 25, 2006 12:57:40 pm PDT #9659 of 10001
What is even happening?
I never sing with my children. *is sad*
This just turned my world upside down. I'd figured you for teaching them the complete works of Sondheim (and possibly the whole score from Avenue Q).
It's not too late. And as a bonus, you can now embarrass them, while you do it.
Aims - Apr 25, 2006 1:19:08 pm PDT #9660 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
My brother says that thanks to having two older sisters, he knows more Disney and musical songs than any man ought to.
Typo Boy - Apr 25, 2006 1:22:19 pm PDT #9661 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Umm I know Tom Swifties. And I know I'm going to regret asking this. But what is "hink-pink".
§ ita § - Apr 25, 2006 1:22:59 pm PDT #9662 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
he knows more Disney and musical songs than any man ought to.
Any straight man, maybe.
JZ - Apr 25, 2006 1:30:41 pm PDT #9663 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
TB, the version my family played (which I just remembered we called Pink Dink) was a rhyming riddle game. You'd come up with a simple two-word rhyme and try to get the others to guess it (or fail to guess it, depending on how competitive you were); you'd signal how many syllables it had by saying "I've got a Pink Dink/Pinky Dinky/Pinkety Dinkety."
Pink Dink: An obese feline = Fat Cat.
Pinky Dinky: A tankard for a mythical beast = Dragon Flagon.
Pinkety Dinkety: A very boring talking device = Monotone Telephone.