# Five year old's logic

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 23, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-year-olds-logic/684388 "2014-03-23T21:48:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 25, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-year-olds-logic/684388/21 "2014-03-25T18:53:38Z")

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He did. (As Joe Cool.)

Our shirt, though, isn’t cartoonish at all- it’s a well-rendered drawing of sunglasses on a lab-like dog, e.g., a dog with a good-sized snout as part of its facial structure. Which, as anyone who’s seen those types of dogs knows, includes two noses.

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**Post date:** [March 25, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-year-olds-logic/684388/22 "2014-03-25T19:11:02Z")

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Right before Easter eating scrambled eggs at the evening meal with my small person. I think he was younger than five.

_Matt, do you know where eggs come from?_

Downtown.

_No, I mean what kind of creature do we get eggs from?_

Rabbits.

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-year-olds-logic/684388/23 "2014-03-25T19:18:24Z")

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My daughter at age 3 or 4 was “counting to infinity” one day when she stopped suddenly and asked me “is there backwards infinity?” A brief chat about the number line and I assured her there is indeed “backwards infinity!” But it will take an awfully long time to count to it. 😉

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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-year-olds-logic/684388/24 "2014-03-26T01:58:46Z")

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A friend told me of his young daughter who when asked one Christmastime if she believed in Santa Claus affirmed that she did because “Daddy couldn’t possibly afford all these toys!”

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