J-RaD's son - newly 2 - loves to play the same game. Parents Words don't stand a chance against a two-year old's obstinance persistence.

Okay I am officially NOT PLEASED by the deceptive cheater LIVE Comment Preview, which DECEIVED me into thinking my clever strikeout tagging was working and then YANKED the proverbial rug from under my mixed metaphorical nose by NOT showing the strikeouts in the finished comment. And if I didn't at least split an infinitive or misuse a gerund phrase somewhere in here, my name isn't -- well okay, that's NOT my name but still.

Fixed! Cool! Thanks!
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Geesh, Mr. 5002...you are going to be Mr. 6002 in no time! :)

LOL Mr. 5000. It IS much funnier when you imagine it's Mrs. Omar. (not that it wasn't pretty funny to begin with. Gotta love a kid with a mind of his own!)

Crosty. Phew. Coulda been so much worse.

So, one day down at the Off Season Saloon where minor characters like to hang out and complain, Crosty The Snowman burst through the door and took a seat with his old pal, Crusty The Clown. They were there to discuss business and to check out the jugs on Lady Leprechaun. She was the bar maid, okay? Her jugs had frothy root beer in them. They decided to assemble one of the greatest hit squads known to minor characters where they would simultaneously elminate both Bozo and Frosty in one fell swoop, thus leaving Crosty and Crusty to reign supreme for all the rest of their days.

and it's orange just like onj! that's way cool, omar.

it definitely could be worse; i once read a story about a london family whose 3-year-old's favorite character was Percy from "thomas the tank engine," but he couldn't properly pronounce it, so he ran around town yelling [rhymes with "wussie"]. it was pretty tough on the family until they figured out what he was actually talking about.

cadiz 12, that's a Craig Shoemaker joke. One of his finest moments in comedy!

So, it's not Crosty? Wow. Um. That's kind of embarrassing for me. All these years...

Thanks for the clarification, man.

?? that bit was about machine-gun noises?

i was talking about a july 2004 article written for salon.com by Rob Wilder about his son London (i had mixed up the details).

warning: link contains that word as well other profanity, but all in the context of humorous stories about children.

Ok, that got a lot funnier when I took -ahem- Mr. 5000's advice and pretended it was you and the wife talking... I won't say which was which.

Ooops cadiz. I couldn't find the exact clip on you tube. All my years of google searches, and my training was insufficient to pull up one comedy bit. :(

So, maybe Craig Shoemaker stole it from Rob Wilder? The plot thickens. I first heard his bit in 2005, so its entirely possible that Craig did rip off the Salon article. I'm so very disappointed. Although, Robin Williams has been passing other peoples stand up routine bits off as his own for years too.

i wouldn't worry about the boy. even if his diction is off, he'll be able to manipulate his way into power in any situation. plus, he's off-the-charts gorgeous (for a two-year-old), and The Pretty People always win.

nice masthead, by the way. can you make me one, too?

I love the new masthead, I'm jealous of the Mr. 5000 ninja, and I think you should let the poor kid name his snowmen whatever he wants. So there.

You read a post, you think of a comment, then you go through all previous comments and then you're lost.

What was I going to say? Something about crustiness? Or kids? Or cool personalized wee ninjas? Or how Jon can have his own movie now and kick Bernie Mac's ass (maybe)?

I'm all commented out.

Pad, pad.

Naming snowmen will only set the poor kid up for disappointment as it melts away and dies.

Hey, Crosty! Where's Omar?!