Ran into one of my older daughter’s teachers (who I knew only by site, have never spoken with her) at McDonald’s the other day.  She recognized me though as well, because she said, “So I hear you’re a Shakespeare geek.”  (Actually she said “afficionado of the bard”, but afficionadoofthebard.com is too hard to spell. :))  I informed her that yes, yes I was, plugged shakespearegeek.com, and said, “My kids know Shakespeare as well.” “I know,” she said, “I was helping your oldest look for books in the library when she pointed at one and said Oh look, Shakespeare’s on that one.” This morning, oldest says to me “Mrs. M knows you’re a Shakespeare geek.” “I know,” I respond, “I saw her at lunch.” “I told her you’re a Shakespeare geek.” “Dot com, sweetie.  Shakespearegeek.com!” Hey if the girl’s gonna shill for me she might as well plug the website!

Those of you with young children will know this, but the little ones love a good joke.  They just don’t fully get how a joke works.  So they’ll often take the structure of something else they heard, swap in a few different words, and expect it to be equally funny. “What did the cow say to the Martin Luther King guy?” was one such joke my 5year old started, but she couldn’t think of a punchline so she changed it and we got this instead: “What did Queen Titania say to King Oberon?”

”Umm….I know a lot of things Titania said to Oberon, sweetie, but they’re probably not in your joke.  So I don’t know,what did Titania say to Oberon?”

“Will you marry me?”

“I suppose after she started speaking to him again, maybe.”

🙂