# My nephew is darn smart...

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 9, 2011, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nephew-is-darn-smart/566970 "2011-01-09T12:49:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nephew-is-darn-smart/566970/21 "2011-01-12T01:21:14Z")

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Sorry, human kids are not very impressive compared to George.

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**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nephew-is-darn-smart/566970/22 "2011-01-12T02:40:27Z")

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> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#):
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> Well my son (8) is clearly destined to be a comedian. Like Weird Al Yankovic, he’s going to make a career out of writing parody songs.
> 
> His latest creation:  
> (sung to the tune of Feliz Navidad)
> 
> _Feliz Navi-butt, Feliz Navi-butt  
> I want to wish you a merry Butt-mas  
> From the bottom of my butt!_
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> He and his brotheer (5) fell to the floor they were laughing so hard.

Sounds like my friend’s younger brother. He developed a recipe for “instant comedy” – take any song featuring the word “heart”, and sing it with “butt” in place of “heart”. “My Butt Will Go On”, “Achy Breaky Butt”, “Total Eclipse of the Butt”, etc.

He was a teenager by the time he thought of this though, so I think your son is gifted!

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**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nephew-is-darn-smart/566970/23 "2011-01-12T16:00:42Z")

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> [@Snickers](#):
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> When I was little, I had a book I called the “spider and grasshopper” book. “Read to me from the spider and grasshopper book!” It was one of my favorites. For a while, Mom was clueless about which book it was. Turns out it was one of those “Little Critter” books - while clearly not the main character (or his family), there was a spider and grasshopper drawn in different places on each page, kind of watching the goings-on as observers. No idea why I’d focused on them.

Reminds me of when my (now 8 year old) daughter was little and used to call “Family Guy” “the baby-puppy show” - this is because the two characters she liked were Stewie (a baby) and Brian (a talking dog).

Granted, being two of the main characters, they were a little more ubiquitous than the spider and grasshopper in your book, but still reminded me.

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