March 5 -- Fun and Games Sunday

Sure beats the first gif I had. (Woman covering herself with a fan.)

But elephant != goat.

@PlacidPenguin Giphy can be pretty confused.
/giphy clumsy penguin

@narfcake

@PlacidPenguin
/giphy elephant slapping

@narfcake

I call dibs on http://giphy.com/posts/10-gifs-of-penguins-being-jerks

@PlacidPenguin
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@narfcake

Why are you slapping an elephant?

@PlacidPenguin Both clumsy goat and clumsy penguin yielded elephants. I was counting that giphy would not find a slapping elephant if I searched for that.

Also you edited your post even more than I did. I blame the goat penguin for that.

/8ball Should I stop going off-topic in this thread now?
Signs point to yes

@narfcake

(And btw, I didn’t edit. I deleted.)

@f00l doesn’t have to be an official event…I remember eating ice cream cones snuggled in my dad’s lap…or snuggling with him in my grandparent’s yard at family picnics because the other cousins were sooooo much bigger than I was… He always made me feel safe.

Mom and I would shop…one day she and I were in the store (she is as blind as I am) and she picked something out of someone else’s cart, thinking it was mine, and started explaining why it would not compliment my skin color. She then looked up and realized the person wasn’t me…

I took advantage of the situation and yelled something to the effect, “Jeepers, Mom, they said when I took you out today the meds would help!” …oh did we laugh!

@mikibell
I’m afraid I remember our family teasing. Mom kept a billion things in her head and kept juggling them for efficiency all day. So my older brother and I used to question her a bit to learn was was up for the day, and then offer all sorts of alternative plans for how to proceed. We would discuss all this with her, with great seriousness.

The goal was to see if we could get her so confused that we could introduce redundancies or convince her that stuff from today was really for another day or vice versa. She took this in good humor, and was completely onto us. Sometimes she would pretend to be confused and then deliver an elegant winning blow by “re-confusing” us all the way to the bookstore or ice cream shop or record store or a surprise drop-off at a friend’s house - in which case we were very gracious about losing.

On weekends she and Dad would practice "revenge confusion jointly on us. It all got to be very complicated and we all introduced elaborations, to the point where many weekends all of us got confused, and no one could remember what we were actually supposed to do. If everybody lost track to that degree, we all got ice cream that night for dessert.

So there was a substantial “cheat incentive” for losing as long as everyone else lost.

This all worked better in the days when everything was far more leisurely, and since Mom didn’t work when we were young, and had free time, it didn’t destroy important life priorities if we wasted a few hours of hers and we all had fun. I think this would not work as well in many families now, unless it was occasional.

@f00l I am the person who keeps all the strings from coming unraveled in our family. It gets so complicated, I call myself “just in time” mommy. I have things organized in my head to get things done in the most expedient manner…I think the kids throw things into the works just to see me work out the knots!

@mikibell

Bad memories are memories nonetheless.

@PlacidPenguin it was neither good nor bad…just meh…
.luckily I bought him a new teeturtle shirt
http://www.teeturtle.com/products/super-villain?variant=26559413449

And his favorite dark chocolate…instead of flowers… Those should be memorable…

@mikibell

T-shirt & chocolate = says a lot.

@PlacidPenguin His mother wasn’t going to spend $40 on flowers for herself??

@mikibell

Just so I know how to read your comment, how did you interpret my comment?

@PlacidPenguin as a compliment… I am too cheap to spend that much money on flowers that won’t last the afternoon.

@KDemo he is my love… I hope he stays this good at heart. I fear he will use his powers for evil…

@mfladd

On the topic of handegg…

@mfladd
Go look at the blame thread already. Honestly.

@mfladd you would go and play games with your son…even if there was a football game on…