Wednesday, June 22, 2011

overposting!

Excuse the overpost - if I don't write things down at the moment, I will forget.



Tonight Bodhi angled for a third book before going to sleep. I said no, so he offered to read it. We have a book from the library about a duck whose egg falls off the conveyor belt in the Alligator Duck Factory. A Alligator -worker takes him home in his lunch box intending to fatten and eat him, but they make friends and go out to dinner etc. In the end the duck liberates the other ducks from Ducktown where they're being fattened for slaughter, gets them fit enough to fly to some sort of Duck holiday paradise resort and they escape. The Alligator and the duck follow in a plane and all ends well by the pool (the Alligator eats chicken instead!)


Illustrations

Bodhi narrates away, and turns pages. When he gets to the picture that has the pair going out to dinner, he said,

'and then they start dating.'

I looked at him, and said, 'did you say dating??' and he smiled at me with a merry and mischievous smile, said, 'yeah, they start dating,' and carried on reading.





On an unrelated note, Jesus, Google Images should rename itself Image Roulette. I keep getting traumatised by horrible things that pop up in searches for completely innocuous images. 

11 comments:

morgor said...

do you have safesearch on?

Jo said...

er.. no.

Jo said...

I'm torn though. Sometimes I actually go looking for horrible things.

morgor said...

well then ...

*gives patronising look*

Jo said...

But I want to be able to choose! Not have children with bullet holes in them because I looked up a children's book!

Craig Sorensen said...

If only Google had various levels of filtering.

A traumatizing filter would have been the ticket, methinks.

Janine Ashbless said...

I LOVE the alligator-duck! Way cuter than the husky-penguin!

Jo said...

Exactly, Craig. I don't think it was real... but still!

Janine, I fear that attitude is going to piss Dan off. War of the mutant photoshops!

Mwa said...

Did you make that picture or was it already out there?

I find the whole story you retold morally quite dubious. I hope the book makes it clear. Maybe if it doesn't, you should tell the story next time making the duck a chicken and the chicken a duck and properly freak out your son, thus ensuring that he properly morally outraged. What a story!

Jo said...

Well, hon, it's no different than ... having a cat and eating a cow...

I did not make the picture, bless you! Zero photoshopping ability. Zero.

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