And on that note…
(while eating dinner)
Dad: I love that song. Maybe I could learn to play it on the piano!
LR: Or on the guitar!
RJ: Or on the ukelele!
LR: Or on the flute!
RJ: Or on the computer!
LR: Or on the drums!
RJ: Or on a violin, but the bow is made from lots of spider webs that are stretched very long on a stick… But you would have to play it very carefully.
So… What have the Romans ever done for us?
(while eating dinner)
RJ: I’d like to thank somebody tonight. I’d like to thank the Romans… for inventing toilets.
RJ: THANK YOU ROMANS!
(LR, Mum and Dad): Thank you Romans!
Dad: They invented plumbing and running water in houses too.
… a few moments later …
RJ: I’d like to thank somebody tonight. I’d like to thank the Romans again… for inventing running water!
RJ: THANK YOU ROMANS!
LR, Mum and Dad: (groaning) Thank you Romans!
… a few minutes later …
RJ: I’d like to thank somebody else tonight. I’d like to thank the Egyptians! For inventing paper!
(LR, Mum and Dad): ARRGGGHH!!
Not to put too fine a point on it
Even Malaysians get the blues
(while eating dinner)
LR: (singing) We all live in a yellow submarine!
RJ: I know that song! I love that song!
LR and RJ: (joyously singing together) We all live in a yellow submarine!
RJ: (after the cacaphony quiets down) When I was a little kid (in Malaysia), we used to sing that song all the time… But it was a bit different. It was about a blue submarine.
Revealing our glass ceiling
Your secret identity is secret no more…
(at the dinner table)
LR: I could be Wonder Woman! What does she do anyway?
Dad: Mostly fight bad guys, just like the other super heroes. She has an invisible jet to fly around in.
LR: An invisible jet? So you can’t see her when she flies around?
Dad: Not quite. You can see her, but no airplane. She looks like she’s zooming through the sky with nothing around her.
RJ: (suddenly paying attention) Are you talking about Martine?
(Martine is a friend of ours… and no, we’ve never seen her fly through the air in an invisible jet.)
When good silverware goes bad…
Warning: Do not read while eating. Contains tapeworms.
(while washing hands before dinner)
RJ: How do you get tapeworms?
Dad: From eating tapeworm eggs. They hatch in your intestines and the tapeworms start living there. That’s one reason why we wash hands before we eat.
RJ: Where do you get tapeworm eggs from?
Dad: They’re in poo from a person or animal that has tapeworms. If it gets on your shoes, or someone else doesn’t wash their hands properly they can get transferred around. If they end up on your hands and you get them in your food, you get tapeworms.
RJ: So when the eggs that go in the toilet hatch, way down in the drains, the tapeworms must be saying, “Oh help! Where am I? This is not right!? Oh no! This is not the right place!”













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LR was very excited to receive a package in the mail yesterday from Double Helix magazine. It turns out that her wonderful Solar System picture won her a prize in the competition!
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