Get ‘em while they’re young
Touring the monkey house at the zoo, I passed a group of YMCA campers: a dozen kids, eight or nine years old. One little boy had apparently been told some things about natural history, as he, apparently unprompted, launched into a rousing speech.
Rabble-rouser: I am not descended from a monkey! I am NOT descended from a monkey! Monkeys are not my ancestors!
Kid #2: What about me?
Rabble-rouser: No! Nobody is related to monkeys! We are humans! Humans and monkeys are different! Everybody who is not partly or completely related to monkeys, say “Aye!” [pumps fist in air]
Other kids: AYE!
Rabble-rouser: Everybody who is not partly or completely related to monkeys, say “Aye!”
Other kids: AYE!
Rabble-rouser: I am NOT part monkey!
Kid #3: I’m ALL monkey. [drags knuckles on ground and hoots]
Tags: miscellany
August 6th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Might find this interesting: http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/08/06/mcdonalds.preschoolers.ap/
August 7th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Yeah, wow. What I found weirdest was that the vast majority of the kids said that one of the identical food items tasted better than the other. Like for the fries, only 10% said they tasted the same. More kids, even, liked the unmarked fries (13%).
August 7th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
I like kid #3!!!