> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lawrence Kestenbaum
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 3:30 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Post No Bills and clogging sewers (a child's perspective)
>
>
> When I was a child, age about 7 or 8,

> Now that I'm a parent myself, I expect to experience some of these
> creative misunderstandings from the other point of view.


Indeed.  My favorite childhood misunderstanding is related to my hearing
disability.

I remember as a child being totally confused by "The Wizard of Oz" movie.  A
lot of it didn't make sense, and those flying monkeys were scary as hell,
but what most perplexed me was why Cowardly Lion wanted carrots.  I always
had it figured, from watching Bugs Bunny, that _rabbits_ wanted carrots.  It
wasn't until later that I got myself straightened around with the phrase
that had me all mixed up (you need to hear this in your head to make it
work: spit out that final epithet):

"Whadduz 'e got that I haven't got?......

"Carrots!"
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