No "L"

[Mkaz]

This has to be the funniest conversation I have ever had with my son. This is how it went.

DS: Mom? What's this word?
ME: What word?
DS: He spells out N-O-E-L
ME: NO-EL
DS: Mom, it has an L
ME: (Starting to chuckle) Yes, I know but it's NO-EL
DS: Mom, I told you it has an L
ME: Yes, I know that. It's called NOEL.
DS: I know what you said, but it has an L.
ME: Listen to what I am saying. The word is NOEL.
DS: (lightbulb finally goes on) OH! I get it.

My daughter and I were laughing so hard we were crying. He has heard this word a million times, but I have no idea what he was thinking.

 

[tchrrx]

This has to be the funniest conversation I have ever had with my son. This is how it went.

DS: Mom? What's this word?
ME: What word?
DS: He spells out N-O-E-L
ME: NO-EL
DS: Mom, it has an L
ME: (Starting to chuckle) Yes, I know but it's NO-EL
DS: Mom, I told you it has an L
ME: Yes, I know that. It's called NOEL.
DS: I know what you said, but it has an L.
ME: Listen to what I am saying. The word is NOEL.
DS: (lightbulb finally goes on) OH! I get it.

My daughter and I were laughing so hard we were crying. He has heard this word a million times, but I have no idea what he was thinking.

That is hilarious! You have to love it when people have those 'duh!' moments.

 

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[GRUMPY PIRATE]

hehehehe

that joke is still funny after all these years!

 

[Mkaz]

hehehehe

that joke is still funny after all these years!

No joke. It was a real conversation with my son. I didn't make it up.

 

[Ppufi]

Hehe, too funny!

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

No joke. It was a real conversation with my son. I didn't make it up.

Okay.

Thats a comedy bit I heard in the 60's or 70's,

And they was even an (irreverent) song that explored that spelling idosyncricy.

 

[Imzadi]

Thats a comedy bit I heard in the 60's or 70's.

It's like Abbott & Costello's "Who's on first?"

 

[Cindy's Mom]

Chicago has a variation on that joke as well.

The First Noel was on the radio the other day. I take the "L" (public transportation) every day to work.

So me and the kids are singing the song in the car and I lower the music and tell the kids that the 3 wise men were really wise, because we sing this song every day at the train station...they were like

then I sing to them: "No el, no el, no el, no el....I just want to get to Clark and Lake"

(get it, no el, as in "no train coming"

Thank you people, I'm here all week.....don't forget to tip your waitresses.

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

Great conversation - keeper to remind him years frm now

Cindy's Mom

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

Hey can you do us a favor a whip out the camcorder when you teach him how to spell Mississippi.