Interesting thoughts

This week Matt was attaching a story he'd written and printed out to some paper that he'd decorated. As he was cutting the double-sided sticky tape he asked me, "How much double-sided sticky tape would it take to cover an elephant?" I have to say that this question has never occupied my mind. My response was, "Why would you want to cover an elephant in double-sided sticky tape?" Back to Matt who said, "Because if it fell over it would stick to the ground." I could not help the further question, "Why would you want to stick an elephant to the ground?" Matt suggested, "So that you could go into a Ripley's Believe it or Not book."

At dinner tonight Mike was telling us all about the scary book that Matt was reading today. Anika disappeared for a while and returned with the French-English dictionary. She then told us that there is no French word equivalent to the word 'spooky' but that the phrase used is, "that which gives you the skin of a chicken." It makes sense. At least it makes more sense than wondering how many metres of sticky tape it would take to cover an elephant.

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And in case you're wondering, the larger font is for a certain person in our family who's about to have a huge birthday next week!