Plus ça change

Posted on 18 June 2008 by rpg

My two girls (aged 8 and 11 going on 36) are playing within earshot.

The eldest, just now, said

“We’re both the smartest, but I’m using DNA to make dragons.”

Call Social Services now. It’ll be kindest in the long run.

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9 Responses to Plus ça change

  1. Henry Gee says:
    18 June 2008 at 08:50

    Richard – mine are about the same age as yours (8 and 10). When she was four, the eldest looked at a fossil of a feathered dinosaur, then on display at the Natural History Museum, and asked me whether I had “punished it in Nature.” Bless.

  2. Richard P. Grant says:
    18 June 2008 at 08:54

    hahah.
    Apparently these dragons now have “miniature lasers”.
    I don’t know whether to be proud or scared.

  3. Henry Gee says:
    18 June 2008 at 09:27

    Apparently these dragons now have “miniature lasers”.
    It was the DNA that did this? Run for your life. Do it now.

  4. Jennifer Rohn says:
    18 June 2008 at 16:41

    Forget dragon cloning – it sounds like you need to instruct your eldest about the proper use of the superlative.

  5. Eva Amsen says:
    18 June 2008 at 17:56

    Well, how else is she going to make dragons?

  6. Richard P. Grant says:
    18 June 2008 at 20:14

    Jenny – I was just happy they agreed on something.
    Good point Eva. I look forward to the grant application (pun unavoidable, really).

  7. Massimo Pinto says:
    19 June 2008 at 08:08

    I suggest you help your younger daughter in a show-off in favour of the role of RNA.

  8. Richard P. Grant says:
    19 June 2008 at 09:22

    RNA? Do dragons have RNA? I might have to ask her.

  9. Maxine Clarke says:
    19 June 2008 at 13:06

    Was that a lesser spotted dragon or a blue-toothed dragon? (falls off bridge)

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