Word Games
Our family is big on word games, especially the use of puns in our daily conversation (too many years of teaching Shakespeare). The practice has carried over into the third generation.
This summer we were keeping Jay (10) and Annie (7) for the day and we decided to go out for lunch. Granddaddy said, “Jay, go wash your hands, you’ve been playing with the dog.” So he complied.
Then Jay in typical big brother fashion said to Annie, who was busy playing games on the computer, “Annie, go wash your hands, you may have a computer virus.”
2 comments:
The funny thing to me is, Jay's not trying to be funny. He's just improvising the language in the same way that Shakespeare did. He knew that the dog reason wouldn't work with Annie, so he came up with the thing that would fit her situation at that moment. He punned his granddady's phrase.
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