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| [Scene: | Luke, age 7, and Beth, age 3, are sitting with me on Beth's bed just before bedtime. For various reasons, Beth begins hitting me in the head with a toy stuffed rabbit.] |
| Me: | "Beth, stop hitting me in the head. No bunny-based violence before bedtime." |
| Luke: | "C'mon, it's not like it has rabies." |
| Me: | "What if it did have rabies? Would that make it a... rabid rabbit?" |
| Beth: | "She's a baby rabbit!" |
| Me: | "She's also kind of reddish. Maybe she's a rabid reddish baby rabbit." |
| Luke: | "A baby rabid reddy ... rabish .... oh man." |
| Me: | "She needs a name that has B's and R's, too. How's this: a rabid reddish baby rabbit... named Barbie." |
| Luke: | "Barbie?!" |
| Me: | "Yeah, it's got two B's and an R. She also needs a location. Something that begins with the letter 'B'...." |
| Beth: | "Boston!" |
| Luke: | "Brooklyn!" |
| Me: | "Hmm... Brooklyn has an 'r' in it too... wait, how about Barbados? A rabid reddish baby rabbit, named Barbie, in Barbados?" |
| Beth: | "A red baby rabber ... Barbie... in ... Bargango?" |
| Me: | "Barbados!" |
| Luke: | "We need the word 'butt' in there." |
| Me: | "Oh please." |
| Luke: | "And 'bongos'." |
| Beth: | "Bongos that look like butt cheeks!" |
| Me: | "Okay. A rabid reddish baby rabbit... named Barbie... playing buttcheek bongos in Barbados! Whew. Say that five times fast." |
| Luke: | "I can't even say it once." |
| Me: | "Try it." |
| Luke: | "A reddish rabbit named baby Barbie... wait, what was it again?" |
| Me: | "A reddish rabid raby babbit... wait, no, a rabid reddy baby rabbit. Okay. Full stop. A. Rabid. Reddish. Baby. Rabbit. Named. Barbie. Playing buttcheek bongos. In Barbados." |
| Beth: | "I like Bargango better." |
| Me: | "Okay. We'll go with Bargango." |
| Luke: | "It should be 'buttock.' Sounds better that 'buttcheek'. Playing buttock bongos in Bargango." |
| Me: | "Does everything really need to be about butts?" |
| Luke: | "Everything already is." |
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