So the other day my 11yo is wearing khaki pants along with a khaki jacket and brown shoes. He says to me:
“Dad! I look like the khaki monster.” (A play off the cookie monster on Sesame Street for all you old farts out there.)
Heh, I thought it was clever.
Any more out there?
How did he pronounce ‘khaki’?
“ka ki”
Is there more than one way to pronounce it?
The kids and I (3 yo son, 7 and 9 yo girls) recently watched Transformers 2 while the wife was away. I’d heard things about it being somewhat crude, but I needed a bright explode-y movie to keep them occupied.
Big mistake. I almost stopped the movie after one of the particularly racially insensitive bits (the “we don’t read so good” part). But my 3 yo freaked out because he wanted to see Bumblebee, so I just paused it for 5 minutes while I lectured them on what stereotypes are, like some goddamn public service announcement.
Anyway, when the whole thing was over with, my 9 yo looks at me and she says: “Well, THAT was retarded!”
There’s hope for the world if at least one nine year old can recognise a retarded film when she sees one.
Oh goodness! This sure rings a bell with me. Whenever I try to give my kids sage advice like “Violence in video games might be fun but in real life that stuff aint cool.”
They always give me this look like I’m the biggest retard in the world who has an annoying habit of sating the incredibly obvious.
Jeez guys, I’m just doing my part as a Dad. I guess they don’t get that.
Oops, after rereading; I see that the kid was refering to the movie and not your pearls of wisdom. Never mind.
Just curious. I’d heard it pronounced ‘cack-ee’ growing up, but then I was corrected and told it was ‘kah-KEE’ by a flight instructor.
Just watch Fight Club to know how it’s pronounced 
Edit: Say “Car keys” with slightly less emphasis on the ‘r’ sound.
…Is good enough for me.
Hey!
Whacky tacky khaki no start with … Ceeeeeeeee…!
I told my son that someday I’d be teaching him how to drive. In a shocked voice he replied. “But Dad you’ll be dead by then!” I was only 35.
He was talking about your driving!
My (almost) 5 year old son was whining about something silly the other day and I finally just told him “Get over it, life is hard!” A few minutes later he was horsing around and I told him to behave; he looked at me seriously and said “Mommy! Life is NOT for behaving!”
My son was giving my daughter crap over…basically existing (he is eleven, she is ten)…
“You bring shame on our family.”
My young niece came banging into the house and left the door open.
Me: “Shut the door! Were you born in a barn?”
Her: “I don’t REMEMBER!”
I, in fact, LOL’d.
When I was about 6 yrs old, my Mom was trying to get me to eat carrots. Finally she told me that it would put “hair on my chest”. I then asked her why she was eating carrots then.
That, was awesome.
The boys, ages 9 and 11, were watching Ice Age 2 <or maybe the first one; I’m not sure; I am sure someone here will know which it was, though!>
I was not paying much attention, playing on the computer <same room, just…sidetracked>
I’m kind of watching, though, cause I hadn’t seen it.
I hear this:
*Ellie: [to Manny] You ain’t savin’ the species TONIGHT, or any OTHER night. *
9-yr-old: “That’s ok, they can save it in the morning!
Or even the afternoon!!”
Me: <choke-gasp-laugh-dietpepsieverywhere>
From Boston? The kah Kee pronouncation is how Bwoston people pronounce car keys.
I lived in Florida right after the Challenger blew up and I had a commemorative license plate that had a picture of the space shuttle taking off on it. Years later my 6 year old son found it in a box. He asked about it and I went over how a teacher was on board and world watched as it blew up.
He looked at me with wonder in is eyes and said…
And you got the license plate off it?