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.

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.)

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.)