Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Kids Ask the Darnedest Things

Isn't it precious when 15-year-olds first begin to exhibit curiousity about the world around them? "Mom, you're not a natural blonde?!", "Is university hard?", or "Yo dawg, for real there's no unicorns?"
Of course it's just a guess that Sierra23424 is 15. She might be an extremely precocious 14-year-old. Or a genius baby with terrifying telekinetic powers that allow her to type nearly-perfect english sentences and post them on the Internet though she hasn't yet learned to crawl.

Q: "In the movie john tucker must die he is mean does anyone know if he is like that in real life?"
A: Well, sweetie, you're going to find this out sooner or later, so I might as well be the one to break it to you: john tucker is not a real person! There's this thing grown-ups do, called "writing fiction," which involves making up things that don't exist, and then making money off it. (You will learn about "money" when you're older and your parents find out about your terrifying telekinetic powers, lock you in a brightly-colored trailer, and start charging people to look though the peephole.) That's an actor, playing john tucker - remember that Christmas Santa's beard fell off and how you cried? It might even be the same actor, only now he makes more money. And he definitely is mean in real life. Otherwise, he couldn't play a mean person. That's just the way the world works, kid. Remember how that Santa promised you an iPod, but then you got a lousy Korean knock-off and the headphones weren't even white?

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