MeFi post: Lies I've told my three year old recently.

My daughter, nine, sleeps in; I like to get up and be in front of the computer working by four or five a.m. Last weekend when I was putting her to bed she looked at me and said "Dad, I want to get up really early tomorrow morning like you and we can go for a walk—I've never seen what it was like outside that early." Then she told me she knew that when the morning came she would be asleep and I would decide not to disturb her, so she made me promise to wake her up no matter what.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Turtles all the way down at 11:12 AM on April 9, 2008

Sometimes kids won't believe the truth anyway. True story. I'm in a taxi with my niece, who is five, and my sister (her mother).

Niece: Were there dinosaurs when you were little?
Me: No the dinosaurs were all gone a long time before that.
N: Before Grandma was little even?
M: Yes, even before Grandma was little.

[Pause as five year-old tries to imagine such a time]

N: What happened to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by The Bellman at 12:35 PM on April 9, 2008

Ask post: Touch me, I'm Dick

don't why more people didn't like Tad

I'll second you on that. TAD were fantastic! Shame their stuff is virtually all out of print now (come on Sub Pop, where are the reissues of God's Balls/Salt Lick/8-Way Santa???).
posted to Ask Metafilter by macdara at 11:11 AM on August 5, 2007

Page: 1