But Daddy, how does it smell?

Awful, it's a pig.

@whoopeddog: Sweet niblets!

Maybe if you throw one at a friend's face, the pig might squirm through the nostrils and then reform inside your friend's skull. AWESOME.

What chihuahua?

@SCHUFT: Thanks.

I think that the pomo technique of looking at everything around the source of an idea, but not trusting the source itself, is sometimes harmful to the appreciation of facts.

Human-like "teeth"? Well maybe, if the squid is from England. Oh!

My children have read my "Richard Scarry's Best Storybook Ever" to the point of rebinding, and when I say "mine" I mean the one I had as a child that I protected/stole from my siblings.

This version contains the epic "Pierre the Bear" saga, wherein Pierre traps and shoots seals for furs, woos a charming lady bear with his manly guitar playing skillz, and teaches his son all the rudiments of seal killing while hunting for furs his family's winter wear.

Recently I saw a new edition of this book in a nephew's room and I flipped through it for fun. The seal killing Pierre saga is gone! I'm not saying killing seals is a good thing -- I'm saying that it was a rocking story that my kids and I found delightful, and I'm sorry it's gone.

A Wrinkle in Time was the first book of ideas I remember reading, and the first book that scared me witless, so much so that I had to stop reading for a few days and then creep back to it. A great loss to my personal pantheon.