It’s Official: Humour is an Aphrodisiac
Received this morning:
“Dear Amazon.ca Customer,
We’ve noticed that customers who have expressed interest in The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson have also ordered What to Expect When Your Wife is Expanding : A Reassuring Month-by-Month Guide for the Father-to-Be, Whether He Wants Advice or Not, by Thomas Hill.”
Odd. I would have thought reading Calvin and Hobbes would be a disincentive to having kids.
Balbulican I’m glad to see your blog isn’t yet affected by this. I’ve been working through the night on a solution!
And in other hilarious foibles of intelligence engines, your ad on this page suggests that “The next phase of making money with blogs is here!”
The problem with Calvin and Hobbes as a disincentive to parenting is that you need to be a parent to understand the parenting struggle and be truly disincent…ed. The blissfully un-child-laden will think such cute things as: “No child of mine…” and “Well, I would never get that frustrated…” and “Awww. But that’s charming!”
Ah, Innocence.
Saskboy, I have a feeling your problem is DDT (Date Dependent-Transient). I would counsel a twenty four hour hiatus before doing anything radical.
Arwen, I alway took C and H as an excellent How-To manual for parenting; particularly Calvin’s dad, and his habit of cheerfully making up stuff about the universe when he either (a) didn’t know, or (b) felt like it.
Remember this one?
Calvin – How come old photographs are always black and white? Didn’t they have color film back then?
Dad – Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It’s just that the world was black and white then. The world didn’t turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.
C. But then why are old paintings in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn’t artists have painted it that way?
D. Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.
C. But… But how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn’t their paints have been shades of gray back then?
D. Of course, but they turned colors like everything else did in the ’30s.
C. So why didn’t old black and white photos turn color too?
D. Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?
C. How come you know so much?
D. It’s all in the book you get when you become a father.
Ah, yes. THAT book. Goddamn Canada Post. Mine is still in the mail.
When it turned noon, the alert went away.
Happy April Fools Day.
Wow, that’s a relief. Now we can turn our attention to something more serious.
Wow that is serious. A femur doesn’t grow back, right?
Not immediately. It can take weeks.
you still ain’t getting my split fins Balb!
Actually, Calvin and Hobbes and especially Malcolm in The Middle make me think that I want to have kids, for some reason.