Luca: Do you know that some fish live forever?
Sikhona: Flying fish do that.
Luca: Some jelly fishes live forever.
Sikhona: The flying ones do.
Luca: My mother told me.
Me: Ok.
Luca: Does everything live on the Earth?
Me: Yes. Except for the things that don't.
Luca: Like astronauts?
Me: Yes.
Sikhona: Dinosaurs don't live on the Earth.
Me: Why?
Sikhona: Some big ice cubes hit them on the head.
Luca: No. People killed them to eat.
Sikhona: All of the things in the whole wide world that are bad ate them.
Luca: And crocodiles. And the ice age.
Sikhona: And the ice cubes.
Luca: Maybe the trees fell over on top of the dinosaurs.
Sikhona: Or the buildings fell down and they were underneath the buildings.
Luca: What if they turned into a house? That could be why they died.
Sikhona: Or lions ate them.
Luca: What if telephone wires zapped them?
Sikhona: Or people could have hit them with their snow shovels.
Luca: Or what if they got painted, and ate the paint. And died.
Sikhona: Orrrrrr, every, every, every, everything in the whole wide world ate them.
Me: Like what?
Sikhona: Like spikes.
Luca: Spikes don't eat. They poke stuff.
Sikhona: Yeah, they poke the dinosaurs.
Now that is a true story. :)
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ReplyDeleteI've gotta make this into a cartoon. Ah, so many projects.
ReplyDeleteYes, another children's book!
DeleteI think you definitely need to make this into a cartoon Garth! Luca and Sikhona can have a story book inspired by them!
DeleteSo many giggles! Great post Mike.
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