Daddy and Sammy were looking at two wireless mouses in an electronics catalogue. One was $26 and the other was $59.
Sammy: (pointing at the cheaper one $26) Daddy, why is this only $26?
Daddy: (trying to figure out the difference) Hmm… let’s see… this more expensive one is wireless. That means it can talk to the computer without…
Sammy: Without a telephone?
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Once in a while, when Sammy plays a computer game and gets so focused at it, he forgets to answer the call of nature (he starts pooing in his pants).
It used to happen quite often, but not much anymore. Except last night it happened again:
Daddy: (carrying Sammy to the toilet) Sammy! Why did you poo in your pants? Didn’t you know it was coming?
Sammy: Daddy! If we don’t make mistakes, we don’t learn!
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Daddy and Mummy were watching Frasier on the computer. Sammy walks up to them:
Sammy: Daddy, you might die.
Daddy: (?!?!) What do you mean I might die?
Sammy: We are running out of oil.
Daddy: (At first thinking that Sammy was watching a documentary about the earth running out of oil, but: a) Sammy is 5 years old, b) They were watching ‘Surf’s Up!’) What do you mean oil?
Sammy: The oil we use to make food!
Mummy: Oh, you mean cooking oil?
Sammy: Yes! We have only very little left, and if we run out we cannot cook food anymore!
Daddy: If we run out of cooking oil we can just go to the grocery to buy more.
Sammy: (Relieved) Oh, phew!
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Domu did very in the Australasian Maths Olympiad. Yesterday the school principal handed him 3 awards: a patch for achieving a score in the top 25% nationwide, a medal for achieving a score in the top 10% nationwide, and a trophy for achieving the highest individual score in his school. Well done!
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The children love playing ‘World of Goo’. They also like playing mindless shoot the aliens games.
Sammy: I’m going to play World of Goo
Daddy: That’s good. I like World of Goo.
Sammy: Why do you like World of Goo?
Daddy: Because it’s educational. It makes you think and use your head. Not like the other games you play where you just shoot enemies.
Sammy: Daddy, the less the games teach you, the more fun they are.
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