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Babble Talk: Dude Looks Like a Puppy

By | January 13th, 2009 at 4:00 pm

There’s a routine by a comedian whose name I can’t recall that I always liked. In it, the comic talks about his son and how little kids are honest to a fault. The boy walks up to heavyset woman wearing a Guess? shirt and says, “I don’t know. 280? 285?” And so on.

I was reminded of that routine by today’s edition of Kids Say The Cutest Things:

“I didn’t know dogs can drive cars!” said by my daughter Madelyne, 3, when she saw a not so attractive person driving a car past us who resembled a dog.

On the one hand, we want our children to be honest. On the other hand, there are times when being honest is not a good idea. When you receive a birthday present you don’t like, you don’t say, “Gee, this sucks.” You say, “Thank you for the gift.”

Or if you see a person who is particularly unattractive, it probably isn’t such a great idea to refer to them as a K-9. I’m just saying.

Get more brutal honesty from people no taller than your kness right here. You can also submit your own trenchant toddler tidbits.

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One Response to “Babble Talk: Dude Looks Like a Puppy”

  1. Shannon LC Cate says:

    My daughter had a similar issue at about 2. She saw a woman with a ponytail in the car ahead of us and thought it was a dog’s ear or something. “Look!” she declared, “it’s a dog!” then she looked more closely and amended herself: “oh, no, it’s not a dog, it’s a people.”

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