Scrolling Saturday was this wonderful idea by Manners and Moxie and suchsimplepleasures Whether or not they're doing it anymore, I'm grateful for the opportunity to scroll back to a sillier time to recycle a post.
Friday, April 4, 2008
We Support Safe Eating
Setting: The Grockle Family dinner table.
Attendees: All but the big one-- #1 son.
Meal: Tacos and Spanish rice (say it with me, "Tack-ohs" which cracks me up. We're supposed to say, "Bah-Nah-Nah" and "Pah-jah-mah", but the British say "Tack-oh").
A rubber goes flying across the table and lands on the Hubby's plate.
We all crack up.
It's A1's rubber (the 8 year-old), he has carried it all over the house since he got it at a birthday party, but tonight Miss Ky, who has been released from her high chair prison, lofts it onto Dad's plate. And we laugh.
Only in England would this be funny...
Your All Things British moment for this week:
Rubber=eraser, because it rubs out the mistakes you make in pencil.
And since we don't have that "Back to School" shopping frenzy you suffer in the States, the school freely hands these out and not one parent is upset by it.
I was thinking that...the little ones slinging RUBBERS! But when I was a kid that's what we called erasers. I'm wondering when we lost that? We used to call couches chesterfields. I'm thinking with the multichannel U.S. "take over" of our popular culture on the TV we've been gentled, tamed, polished. I even call weiners hotdogs now. Sigh...
ReplyDeleteThat is great! Now I want to go have a tack-o.
ReplyDeleteI think I remember that post. :) I'm going to have to go out and buy my kids boxes of rubbers now, thank you very much.
ReplyDeleteI love a little giggle to go with my every day. Thanks for the sip of humor. Hmmmm ... maybe we should think about some tack-ohs for dinner, but there will definitely be no rubbers flying hither and yon (our mechanical pencils come equipped and they stay put). ; )
ReplyDeleteI've missed your wit, but am so glad you've been doing the "Holiday" thing. (And carrying those necessary bags -- I was a car-sick kid ... you could bank on it, but plastic bags weren't around. Ever try paper? GROSS!!!!)
Enjoy your waning Summer Fun days.
this is good, cos there are newbies to your blog like silly old me, who would get to read, what I missed out, unless I do go right to the very first post and start reading from there *GASP*
ReplyDeleteThat is simply hilarious!
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked my ``Hugh Hoofner'' line!!
i kept saying to myself...why does this kid have a rubber?! but then...you thankfully clarified...phew!!
ReplyDeletewhich reminds me...i have to put that on my shopping list...
oh yeah...i think that i'll start doing it again next week...scrolling saturday...i forgot about what an outstanding idea it was...who is the genius that thought of it? oh yeah...pat pat
ReplyDeleteThank you for giving me something my anglophile addiction. I for the life of me couldn't figure out what it was, I knew it wasn't the obvious literal rubber.
ReplyDeleteI'm sitting here going, "there's a good explanation for why the 8 year old had a rubber". so glad to learn it's not what I was thinking. Cute post.
ReplyDeleteSuch a fun post! Bless the kids for bringing laughter to your table with an eraser. And I'm so glad you explained what that was to clear up my puzzlement! :D
ReplyDeleteWe had a CO's wife who was British, and embarrassed herself and her poor husband in the exchange, yelling to him to "don't forget the rubbers!"
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giggles this morning!
Aw, you're the master of storytelling. You had me at RUBBER!
ReplyDeleteUmmm ... dare I admit this? I popped over here to see if you had anything new posted and I re-read the title about safe eating and burst out laughing. (I didn't get it the other TWO times I'd been here!!!!) I think I need to go have a cuppa tea and think about how un-worldly I am. *snicker* Happy Monday in a Happy-Summer kinda way. XO
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting my blog. We live in Lincolnshire and had friendson Mildenhall/Lakenheath. Keep your pecker up!
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