Corwin and absurdist humor, part 2

[jrtom]

A follow-on to http://jrtom.livejournal.com/263283.html:

(A few days later)

me: "Can you say 'If you ask me a silly question, I'll give you a silly answer?'"

Corwin: "Yogurt with applesauce and porcupine."

"You always say that now. What other silly answers can you come up with?"

"Yogurt with applesauce and a car in it."

"What if you don't have any yogurt and applesauce?"

"Then just a car, then you eat it."

"What if you don't have any yogurt, applesauce, _or_ a car?"

"Then you eat the bowl. That will give you a silly answer."


I think I've been told.

Comments

wtflol!

[amnesiadust.livejournal.com]

This kid deserves a gold medal. :)

thinking some more

[amnesiadust.livejournal.com]

Part of what makes this especially funny is that he's very consistent with, and confident in, his answers. Like, of course you eat the car, I mean, duh. And if you don't have a car, then the bowl is just the next logical replacement.

Maybe this is an artifact of the way you're telling it, but I can hear this conversation in my head and the mental construct is very strong.

Re: thinking some more

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

He wasn't always quite as snappy with his answers as this suggests, but pretty close.

I'm also amused at the nature of the stream-of-consciousness-style logic.

(And I should have asked him what if he didn't have a bowl just to see where he'd go, but that last answer was just so awesome that it was all we could do to write it down before we lost it.)

Corwin

[fdmts.livejournal.com]

I think you got owned.

Re: Corwin

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes.

There is little that makes me happier than being owned by one of my kids. As far as I'm concerned, that means that I'm doing my job as a parent. (I felt analogously about my students.)