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HAR! My daughter, at 18 mos, talked a lot about "Dirty Percy! Dirty Percy!" (yeah, there's an episode where Percy gets coated in chocolate).
She's a huge Thomas fan, so this went on for some time.
I just remember my husband looking at me, face a bit pinched, and saying "We're gonna get arrested, aren't we?"
I really have to stop reading your blog at work. I just about burst a blood vessel trying to control my laughter.
Tony's a lucky Lobster.
A party tree AND pussy? What a lucky kid!
My 2 year old daughter has a similar problem - she can't pronounce the s at the beginning of words. The result is that whenever she drops her spoon, she screams out, "Where's my poon???"
or Naughty Pussy.
(I'm now washing my own mouth out with soap, because that's how Mom would have wanted it)
I'm more concerned about the issues the dog is going to have when it grows up.
Am I the only one who thought a dog named with a word for cat was deliciously screwed up?
Honest. I didn't think of the sexual connotations until I read the last bit.
Ha! I just spit water out when I read, "Pussy."
Of course, it's Pussy. What little kid allows his parents a normal pet/dolly/etc. name.
my son did the exact same thing during his beloved-of-all-things-thomas toddler phase.
i think the creators of Thomas the Tank Engine did it on purpose, to alleviate some of the mind-numbing boredom that is that show. Can't you see it? They're all sitting around the table rubbing their hands together and cackling with glee at the idea of a whole planet full of two-to-five year olds who scream out "PUSSY!!" at the sight of a small green train engine....
Awww, that just reminded me of the time my son Than tried to say "Firetruck" and all he managed to say was "F-f-fUCK!" Sweet memories.
What's odd is that when you WISH they would mispronounce something, it comes out crystal clear. Like when I was fussing at the eldest, who was then 12 or 13, about his room looking like a "shithole" I hear this perfectly enunciated high-pitched echo behind me: "shit hole." Ryan screamed, "Bwahahahahaha!" as I clapped my hand over my mouth in shock. Josiah, the toddler at the time, just looked up at me and grinned.
Good times.
My sons are also both enamored of all things Thomas, but they pronounce Percy as "Purr-thee". For us, the embarrassing pronunciation issues came while they were still in their "Elmo" phase... At the beginning of one particular Elmo video, there's a shot of Kermit the Frog working one of those video cameras...you know, the riding ones? I was disturbed to hear my then-2 year old shouting F***! S***! repeatedly, when I *knew* we'd been careful not to say our "sailor words" around him. Turns out, he had noticed Kermit and was trying to say "Frog! Sit!"...only it didn't quite come out that way.
My oldest, now five, had issues with truck and fuck sounding the exact same as well. The issue was when he told everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, that his granpa had a "big blue fuck, it was so big, it could fit FOUR people!!!!" We changed libraries that day.
We had a bunny named Bobby the Duck for a lot of years, but this one takes the cake.
I worry about giving certain dogs and cats identity issues through my liberal use of 'ducky', 'duckface' etc as terms of affection, but never went in for interspecies naming.
Am I the only one who read about Tony and Pussy and immediately thought of Tony Soprano and his not-so-loyal follower, "Pussy" Bonpensiero? Oh well.
My son had a thing for clocks when he was about 18 mo. old. At the library book sale, where the little old lady volunteers outnumbered the buyers, I had him in a back carrier - until he started yelling "COCK! COCK! COCK!" and pointing across the room where some poor guy was standing under a clock.
I never thought I'd be so grateful for my four-year-old's terrible enunciation. Nobody but me can tell when he says something that might be interpreted as, well, interesting.
Yeah, Ben use to be all about the fire fuck, the garbage fuck, the big fuck, the blue garbage fuck. (Is a blue garbage fuck when the sex is so bad it makes you sad?)
Flea, your line about the uncracked egg is some grade A writin'. Beautiful touch.
I don't know what kind of animal we may get next; dog, cat, guinea pig. whatever it is, my vote for the name is Bobby The Duck.
I named my doll Beaver.
I think I associated the word "beaver" with "fever", and since the doll had a prominent forehead I thought she had a "fever" because of my mom putting her hand on my forehead to see if I had a fever. So maybe I meant to name her "forehead"?
I also named my goldfish "Cactus" because I thought it was a beautiful word, but had no idea it was a spiny plant.
My 2 year old nephew came into the living room with the Percy car from his train set in his mouth. So my sister asked him what he was doing with that. The reply? "Eating pussy." Then he offered it to her. "you eat pussy mommy?"
A party tree AND pussy?
Clearly I am on the wrong party list.
No, you're not the only one. Tony and Uncle Pussy, exactly what I thought.
My son liked to point out the "dumb fuck", as a three-year-old.
It was, of course, a dumptruck.
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