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Little Wise Guys

Overheard in the van, on the ride to school this morning:

Little Chic to Brainy Boy: "I'm rejecting your reality and substituting it with my own reality."

I'm thinking that somebody has been watching a little too much Dr. Phil.
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Laurie said…
Baaahahahhahahah! OMGoodness, that's too funny!

And I can sooo identify with the sound thing. I think with Claire's deafness, it has somehow made me more hypersensitive to sounds and protective of our hearing. The boys have these airsoft guns and the clicking makes me crazy! Must be done outside. Of course it may be making me nuts when I hear it inside because that could mean I will be finding holes in my lampshades and bb's embedded in the soles of my feet...AGAIN!
1/12/2007 3:54 PM
Anonymous said…
Jen this one made me laugh right out loud. I love Dr. Phil and some of his Philism's get thrown into some of my conversations, much to my husbands dismay. But for it to come from a young one such as Lil Chic, well that's just priceless. I would have loved to have seen Brainy Boy's face when he heard that one. Too funny!
-Charlene
1/13/2007 9:50 AM
PandaMom said…
I am seriously stealing that line and using it on someone this week! Toooooooo funny!
1/13/2007 9:33 PM
cabbey said…
hehe, that's priceless. :)

More likely though, was that she was quoting Adam Savage from the Mythbusters on Discovery, not Dr. Phil.
1/20/2007 2:31 PM
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