Elli said Harry Potter's Hagrid is "like the nice version of Santa Claus." I'm still trying to figure out what that means.Are you assuming that means she thinks there is a bad version or that Santa is bad?
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Posts: 279 07/01/09 17:58:32 |
I don't know! I figured it meant she thinks Santa was not nice but i guess it could be interpreted several ways. I do know that she thinks the Santa in
Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer is a jerk.
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Posts: 1133 07/01/09 18:45:02 |
You could try putting on a Santa mask and popping out after hiding with a jolly "HOHOHO!" If she runs screaming it may indicate she has a problem
with jolly old Saint Nick. [Or that I would make a bad parent or guardian. I remember once when I was 4-7 (not exactly sure) my mom (who was an extremely
caring and devoted mother who would do anything for her kids) spun around with a big grin once without her dentures and it scared me so bad I ran and hid under
my bed. I of course got her back later by sneaking up on her late on night in the dead silence and placing my hand on her shoulder and yelling
"Hello!" Nearly gave her a heart attack. You can't buy those kind of memories.]
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Posts: 279 07/01/09 21:02:00 |
I don't think she is scared of or has issues with Santa in general, but she does find the mall Santas creepy. I'm not sure if that's her own view
though or if she's just repeating an opinion of mine that she may have overheard at some point. I should probably ask her for clarification about this
Hagrid/Santa statement because it really is curious.
My grandfather used to freak us out by popping his dentures in and out and i hated it when he did that. |
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Posts: 1133 07/01/09 21:29:11 |
Yeah, well, who isn't freaked out by mall santas or people popping out their dentures?
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Posts: 279 07/01/09 21:36:25 |
Yeah that's probably pretty universal. And, i'm chucklin' as i'm typin', by the way.
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Posts: 1133 07/04/09 20:17:27 |
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OK, this needs further elaboration: I wonder how far that giant mylar Lightning McQueen balloon travelled before it landed half-deflated in our front yard.
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Posts: 279 07/04/09 21:36:11 |
I looked out the window that morning and there was something strange in the yard. I thought at first maybe it was an empty charcoal bag blown over from the
neighbors' yard, but it was too large. I said to my son "what the heck do you think that is in the yard?" and he came outside with me. As we got
closer, my son burst out laughing about the same time i saw the goofy face of Lightning McQueen from Cars smiling at us. The balloon was about half deflated
but it was huge. The family figured it had come from somewhere in the neighborhood but i like to imagine that maybe it flew in via a storm cloud from North
Dakota or something. If you happened to have a Cars-themed party recently and lost a giant Lightning McQueen balloon, thanks for adding another quirky
paragraph to the strange story of my family's life.
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Posts: 1133 07/04/09 22:49:45 |
Ahh, OK, I didn't see Cars or know that one of the characters in it was named after the movie star, so I thought
you had found a half-inflated balloon of the actual Steve
McQueen.
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Posts: 279 07/05/09 13:04:37 |
Now *that* would be weird, even for my family who seems to be a magnet for all things bizarre.
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