Sorry I was late

Well, I missed Thursday's installment. Things were pretty hectic at the household last night. Today isn't going any easier and we will be out of town for the weekend (so not post until Sunday...at the earliest)

So, since I don't have the time to sit down and ramble along...I will copy somthing I had posted elsewhere.

For those of you with children, you should recognize the style of the writing. Similar to the Mouse-Cookie & Moose-Muffin stories, I had recalled a couple weeks ago a discussion I had when my kids wanted to watch a Godzilla movie. They have seen quite a few of the movies, and for some reason, it was not the first couple of movies that raised all the questions. They seemed to accept the premise with minimal input. However, in re-watching one of the films (I cannot recall which it was...sorry) they suddenly had a thirst for knowledge...

If you let your kids watch a GODZILLA movie
…they will want to know what he’s doing in the town.
Once you inform them he’s angrily stomping through Tokyo, they will want to know why he is so mad.
So you tell them he’s angry because of Nuclear testing.
They want to know what that means, so once you explain, they want to know why someone would do such a thing. So you give a brief explanation regarding the concept of war and what happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Then they ask why the army cannot hurt him.
After you inform them of the resiliency of his hide along with his ultra-fast regeneration, they will want to know how he got to be so big and strong.
Once you explain how his power is tied into the Atomic Bombing, they will want to know what Nuclear Fusion is.
So you think about it for a moment, and see that they are waiting on an answer from you. So you give a generalized statement regarding the atoms and how molecules are the fabric of our being. Chances are, they won’t understand.
They consider this, look back to the TV and ask if its like The Force.
As you begin to explain the difference, they want to know why their mouths move funny compared to the words.
First you explain that the film is ‘dubbed’, and then you explain why.
They want to know why the film was made in Japan and not in the USA. You explain that the author was Japanese and he got the idea based on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Confused, they will turn their attention back to the movie.

Chances are, your spouse will wonder why the children are ‘stomping’ to the table with arms out front and ‘Rar-ing’ at the dinner table.
They will inform her that they are pretending to be Godzilla.
Your spouse will look at you and say “Oh really?” and when she does, the children will rapidly and loudly simultaneously begin to explain all about Godzilla from a viewpoint totally other than what you told them, combining actions and characters and assorted monsters from many of the movies in one long excited dissertation.

And also pointing out that Bambi never stood a chance.

Here endith the blog