You should teach him to appraise value better before he steals shit.
That is insanely adorable. My kids were depressingly realistic from their first breath -- I never got any of the appealingly childlike confusion between fantasy and reality out of them.
You say it like it's a joke now, but wait until your kid rules the Congo as his personal fiefdom/rubber plantation.
When I was a kid I tried digging a tunnel to Africa. I was not successful.
And the cat's in the cradle with a silver spoon...
confusion between fantasy and reality
What are you talking about?
It was something one of your Amazon bodyguards mentioned. Probably not important.
Speaking of C.H.U.D., I've never seen it. Is it worth watching (as a good bad movie)? Bear in mind I love bad movies, so long as they're not boring.
Don't think of it as a bad movie. Think of it as a prescient warning.
The kids were planning a jailbreak, got busted, and then concocted this ridiculous story thinking that total incoherence might let them pass as innocent confused children and potentially lessen any potential punishment. Sounds like they calculated correctly on that one. If the plans has been executed as they'd been drawn up, that corkscrew was going into someone's stomach.
"C.H.U.D." is one of those bad movies that came out a little too early to be worth watching. Because of the difficulty and expense of coming up with good special effects, almost the whole movie is about some boring cops going around investigating stuff. "Q: The Winged Serpent" is kind of similar, but at least its ridiculous special effects involves a winged serpent instead of grimy underground shadow creatures.
12 Wolfen too. And I love them all.
Great story btw, had me getting strange looks from guffawing in this restaurant.
To quote Jack Aubrey in similar context, "Behold the righteous Sadducee."
You are raising that boy right if even his fuck-ups are that awesome.
...and then you found five krugerrands?
So basically the escape attempt was successful, right? I mean, there was an awkward middle bit but then he got to leave school.
5: Isn't it a universally accepted truth that if you did a deep enough hole in the U.S. you will wind up in China?
5,25: I read 5 again I realized that was probably what you meant -- that you wound up in China instead of Africa.
truth that if you did a deep enough hole in the U.S. you will wind up in China
That was pre-internet.
South Africa is actually closer to the antipodes of most places in the US than China, so even that part of the fuckup is more accurate than common knowledge. Tell him to take scuba gear and a heavy jacket, as Kerguelen is colld.
So awesome.
And huh, according to the link in 27, if you start digging in Hawaii, you end up reaaaaly close to South Africa (Northern Botswana).