The Mad Giggler on :
I hope I never get a Facebug.
Monday, April 12. 2010The Mysteries of the Inter Nets
This is a conversation I overheard this morning at breakfast. E is 9 years old. S just turned 7.
E: When I am a teenager I’m going to have a Faceboog. S: A face bug? E: Yeah. You can talk to you friends on a Face Bug. S: You mean like . . . E (impatiently): Like you can use a Face Bug to talk to your friends in internets! S: Uh . . . You mean like a taste bug? E: Yeah. Taste bugs live on your tongue - S: -But- E: -and they tell you how food tastes. S: Do they come out of your tongue ever? E: DUH! Yes, when they come out of your tongue they - S: -they’re on your face? E: - they go onto your face and then they’re Face Bugs. And then they go in internets and - S: they crawl into inter nets? E: Hello, yes, I’m telling you! They crawl into internets and then they talk to your friends. S: Oh! That’s . . . weird. I mean cool. E: Yeah. (tosses her hair) And when I’m a teenager I’m going to have one. Because they’re cool. S: (looks mystified and impressed) me too! Trackbacks
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The Mad Giggler on :
I hope I never get a Facebug.
Daboo on :
But don't you want to be COOL?
Radar on :
That may be the best techno-babble I have heard in a long time.
Mandi Scandal on :
"Hello, yes, I’m telling you"
Best ever! I am with the mad giggler... I hope I never get a facebug either... it sounds rather horrifying! And the kids think this is cool?!?!? |
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