Would you say this is weird?

“Hey Mummy, would you say this is weird?”  Says Rissa, upon her arrival home from school.  She pokes her head around the corner and sticks her tongue out of her mouth and makes this noise: “Lardl-lardl-lardl-lardl…”

“Yes.  I would say that is weird.”

“How ’bout this?”

She ducks out of view for a second and then comes around the corner once more, her face screwed into a fishy semblance making this noise: “pwuh-pwuh-pwuh-pwuh…”


“That, too, is weird.”

“Would you say they are equally weird…?

“As opposed to?”

“One being decidedly more weird.”

“Let me see them again.”

Like daugther like mother…

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