Today I arrived home from the office exhausted, collapsed on the couch and idly watched Gurgle, our three-year old daughter, playing some self-absorbing game. Perhaps foolishly I felt some acknowledgement was called for - the heroic bread-winning father arrived back from the front after several hours facing down the enemy - so as soon as I'd washed some caffeine tablets down with rocket-fuel coffee and otherwise recovered sufficient energy I attempted to communicate:
crem: "Baah"
Gurgle: [no response]
crem: "Hello, gurg"
Gurgle: [no response]
crem: "Who's a gurgly wurgly squergly urgle, then?"
She stood up, put her hands on her hips and declaimed: "I'm not a squergly urgle. My name is SARAH BRATTEL". She then sat down again and, after a considered pause, continued sotto voce: "And daddy is a pumpous old wind-bag"
Well, that's me told ;)
(From cix:noticeboard Nov 2002)
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We worked out later that "..pumpous old wind-bag" is a phrase used in The Jungle Book.
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