So, last night at dinner, Li'l Sphere got a faraway look on his face and proceeded to let loose an epic, two-full-minute burst of gas. In the stunned silence following the blessed event, he looked at his mother and said, as innocent as a 3-yr-old, "That was my butt! My butt is talking!"
At that point, his mom cracked up, but I was trying hard not to laugh, what with my parents coming to visit next weekend and the decline of polite society and God and the Bible and all. Anyway, she managed to ask him, "What did your butt say?"
He said, with his sweetest smile on his face, "It says, 'I love you, Mommy!'"
L'il sphere is killing me ded.
The thing that strikes me about Susan's quote is the conflation of the Continental Congress/Declaration of Independence and the Constitutional Convention/Constitution.
And while there may be some arguments that "tyranny" wasn't an inappropriate word, those arguments would relate more to taxes imposed by a Parliament to which the colonists couldn't send representatives and the actions of a King who, unlike his recent predecessors, actually tried to be a political power in his own right. In other words, increased responsibility without increased power, not so much religion.
Oh, hey, I know I've been intermittent on posting, so forgive me if it's already been posted, but I just read that erinaceous' (and my agent, kate's) dad passed away in February. Did we do cards or anything? I don't have erinaceous' address to send a card, can someone who sees her pass one along if I send it?
I feel terrible, I just didn't know.
Allyson, I will email you.
Is your wife still slumped over the table, crying with laughter?
That's just too perfect.
"That was my butt! My butt is talking!"
Reminds me of that Em story, what was it? "NO! IT WAS MY BUTT!" I still laugh at that.
ION, I know several people here enjoy comfy shoes - do people know about these Clark's shoes that benefit AIDS orphans in Africa.
