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    While listening to free jazz legend Pharoah Sanders the other day ... "No offence to whoever made this, but that sounds like elephants trying to do opera."
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    Which sense of the word "stool" is being used here?
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    This query was dealt with by means of an off-line communication last night. Ticket closed.
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    On the way back from zoo with daughter and niece: Sadhbh: Lily, when we get home do you want to listen to my Dad's stories about the time he was in Africa? Lily: No. Can we play with Lego instead? Sadhbh: Okay.
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    How would a scorpion say "I love you" to another scorpion?
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    Anyone else discovered the delights of Morris The Mankiest Monster? I think it's the best children's book ever. An entire smorgasbord of bodily fluids - snot, pus, faeces - it's all there. I expect Spike Jonze will make a film version some time in the years to come.
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    "Hugh, do you know what I want for Christmas?" "No, what?" "An eyeball costume!"
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    Not my child but my Niece .. Niece: Hugh, I saw a boy on a motorbike today who had long hair just like you except it was brown. Me: Sure, my hair is brown too isn't it? Niece: No, it's grey.
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    Her: Daddy, when will you die? Me: Oh, not for a long time. People usually don't die until they get very old, and am I old? Her: Yes.
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    At breakfast last week: her: "Daddy, what are you doing?" me: "I'm making a list of things I have to do in work today" her: "What things? Read it!" me: "Well, here is says - email John about ..." her: "What else?" me: "Write document about project ...." her: "What else?" me: "Talk to blah blah...
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    That's pretty profound I think.
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    Her (on seeing me walk into the room): "No! No! I want my Mommy!!!" Me: "Now that's not a very nice thing to say is it?" Her (smiling sweetly): "Daddy, please can you go away?"
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    A friend of ours, who is pregnant, is in the house showing us pictures of her scan. She turns around to our daughter and says .. "Look Sadhbh, these are pictures of the baby in my tummy". Sadhbh looks a bit shocked and then asks: "Did you gobble him all up?"
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    I used to get something like this. She calls records "rock noise". Used to come into the living room and point at the stereo and go "Rock Noise! Rock Noise!" .... until I put on a record. She would then stand there listening to it for about 5 seconds before shaking her head and saying "No, no...
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    I was down at Superquinn in Crumlin a week or two with the little one (who's nearly two). There's a shop there that sells stuff like hardware, garden equipment and things for your pets (like feeding bowls and dog baskets). Anyway we're standing there and she points to a dog basket ... Her...
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