To be serious for a moment, there's a well-remarked phenomenon among
English-speaking males in the US--at about 10 they start insisting that
their parents luisten to endless horrible jokes, usually turning on puns. I
did it, my friends did it, my kid did it, his friends did it, and my
parents and their sibs recognized it from their own childhoods (the girls,
by the way, never pretended to laugh).
So I wonder--does this happen in other lands? And hoew does one explain the
phenomenon?
It goes away, mercifully, after a couple of weeks.
I'm assuming that neither I nor Alison are responsible for the behavior of
our children. That she does it on her own is another matter.
Mark
At 09:46 PM 1/30/2005, you wrote:
>On 31/1/05 1:41 PM, "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > I see you've been talking to your youngest again.
>
>Mark, you know my juvenile tendencies all too well!
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>Alison Croggon
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