# Piper Cub thinks you guys are geniuses! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 19, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166 "2016-12-19T18:34:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166/1 "2016-12-19T18:34:09Z")
Playing Lego with the Cub last night, and he suddenly said: “Daddy, I want to have a real shrink ray. Will you make me one?” I temporised: “I don’t think we can make a shrink ray from Lego.” Cub: "I know that! That’s what I mean by you making a _real_ one! Me: “I’m afraid I don’t know how to make a real shrink ray, Cub.” (Exasperated sigh from eight-year old.) Cub: "Well then, you should ask your imaginary internet friends\* how to make one. They know _everything_! - Piper slang for Dopers; don’t want the Cub to mention at school that Daddy has doper friends… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166/2 "2016-12-19T18:51:29Z")
I call you my imaginary friends. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166/3 "2016-12-19T18:52:44Z")
We’re not imaginary, we’re complex! ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166/4 "2016-12-19T18:57:06Z")
i am imaginary ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166/5 "2016-12-19T19:22:55Z")
I’m [real](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_number)but also [narcissistic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_number) ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166/6 "2016-12-19T19:27:16Z")
The receptionist just let me know that I watered a decorative Christmas plant this afternoon. Thing was so dry! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166/7 "2016-12-19T19:38:45Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > i am imaginary i am irrational ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166/8 "2016-12-19T19:38:50Z")
Not even counting your 8 year old, take out the word “imaginary” and that’s how I refer to everyone here! ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166/9 "2016-12-19T20:04:34Z")
The only shrink ray I know of works on money. Please send me a log in to your retirement account and I will gladly demonstrate. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166/10 "2016-12-19T20:16:55Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > i am imaginary Me, too. I’m a fig of my own imagination. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166/11 "2016-12-19T20:18:11Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Me, too. I’m a fig of my own imagination. oh!.. recursive! ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166/12 "2016-12-19T20:22:21Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > oh!.. recursive! Yep. She’s figs, all the way down. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166/13 "2016-12-19T20:42:18Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Piper Cub thinks you guys are geniuses! Like a belief in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, flights of fancy are not necessarily to be discouraged in younger children. One day, all too soon, they will learn the truth. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166/14 "2016-12-19T21:25:02Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > The only shrink ray I know of works on money. Please send me a log in to your retirement account and I will gladly demonstrate. 🙂 Yes, I think I won’t be accepting your gracious offer. I believe the Cub had something more … dramatic and material in mind. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166/15 "2016-12-19T22:33:57Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > We’re not imaginary, we’re complex! Right. We have real parts and imaginary parts. My imaginary part has instructions for a shrink ray, but they won’t make a real one. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166/16 "2016-12-19T22:44:56Z")
A Platonic shrink ray, in other words? ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166/17 "2016-12-19T22:56:06Z")
Woohoo! We’ve been validated. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166/18 "2016-12-19T23:15:25Z")
I could try to find a psychiatrist named Raymond. Would that help? ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166/19 "2016-12-19T23:16:40Z")
I’m more than just irrational. I’m radical. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166/20 "2016-12-20T00:20:10Z")
We only make rays of the “death” variety here. And they tend to be a bit antiquated. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-cub-thinks-you-guys-are-geniuses/775166.md?page=2)