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Sunday, July 6, 2014

Jokes, Pythagoras and favourite things

You asked to learn some jokes, so I taught you a few, and you've been delighting all of our friends by reeling off such classics as:

  • Two fish in a tank and one of them says... How do you drive this thing?
  • What game do you play with a wombat? Wom!
  • How can you tell if there's been an elephant in your fridge? Footprints in the butter!
  • What's yellow and dangerous? Shark infested custard!
  • Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side!
  • Horse walks into a bar, the barman says... Why the long face?
  • What brown and sticky? A stick!

After about a year of trying, I also finally managed to get you to be able to recite Pythagoras's Theorem, by putting it into a song. But you refuse to perform it. You sing it in the bath, sure, but in front of our friends you're suddenly shy.

Pythagoras had some special news
"The square of the hypotenuse
Is equal I swear
To the sum of the squares
Of the other two sides!
(For right angled triangles)"

If I sing any part of it wrong, you correct me like I'm being very silly indeed...

"Peppa Pig had some special news -"
"No! Pythagoras!"
"The square of the hippopotamus -"
"NO! Hypotenuse!"

And today I asked you, out of curiosity, what were your favourite things in the world.

  • Your favourite place? Brockwell Park.
  • Your favourite colour? Pink.
  • Your favourite person? Uncle David.
  • Your favourite book? Anything with boats in (although you couldn't name any in particular when pressed).
  • Your favourite film? The Little Mermaid (it used to be Lion King, then I'm sure it was Tangled and/or Frozen for a while...).
  • Your favourite food? Spaghetti (with butter and cheese).
  • Your favourite thing to do? Play and eat.
  • Your favourite toy? Björn (Although we'd got home by this point and you were losing attention - Björn just happened to be nearby...).
  • Your favourite animal? Bears (This said with Björn on your shoulders).

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