{"id":389,"date":"2004-03-08T19:19:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-09T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/03\/08\/pretty-damn-punny\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:55:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:55:14","slug":"pretty-damn-punny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/03\/08\/pretty-damn-punny\/","title":{"rendered":"PRETTY DAMN PUNNY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Things that still crack me up even though my kids only thought they were funny once:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the car, going somewhere, the kids are haranguing me for something using the time-honored phrase, &#8220;please please mama please&#8221; only they&#8217;re doing it in Swedish, which is &#8220;sn\u00e4lla, sn\u00e4lla, sn\u00e4lla* mamma&#8221; at which point I stop them dead and say, <b>Did you just call me a snail?!<\/b>\n<\/li>\n<li>Singing Pop Goes the Weasel really loud as the kids are finishing dinner, and just as I get frozen desserts on sticks out of the freezer, I end the chorus with <b>POPSICLE WEASEL!<\/b>\n<\/li>\n<li>Karin tells me quite seriously and intensely that she REALLY REALLY WANTS the Bionicle Mask** of Light GameBoy. Doublechecking to see that I&#8217;m hearing her right, with an evil glint in my eye, I ask, <b>You want The Worm of Light?!<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ahahahahaha! Me so funny!<\/p>\n<p><b>Flea so funny, too:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/buggydoo.blogspot.com\/2004_03_01_buggydoo_archive.html#107870548817223282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sweet, sweet vermin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-2\"><i>*sn\u00e4lla is pronounced snella and translates literally as &#8220;kind&#8221; as there is no word for please in Swedish<br \/>\n**mask in Swedish translates to both mask and worm<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things that still crack me up even though my kids only thought they were funny once: In the car, going somewhere, the kids are haranguing me for something using the time-honored phrase, &#8220;please please mama please&#8221; only they&#8217;re doing it in Swedish, which is &#8220;sn\u00e4lla, sn\u00e4lla, sn\u00e4lla* mamma&#8221; at which point I stop them dead and say, Did you just call me a snail?! Singing Pop Goes the Weasel really loud as the kids are finishing dinner, and just as I get frozen desserts on sticks out of the freezer, I end the chorus with POPSICLE WEASEL! Karin tells me&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6244,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/6244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}