Aphorims of a Chloe
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october 17 2010
explaining to an eight year old what cannonization is
"he was a very good man who never ever did anything bad"
...
"you mean he never drank beer?"
nov.26 2009jeudi
so the traffic lady on the radio is reporting that the 15 south is
locked in solid and that a good alternative is the 13 south.
chloe pipes up,
"if she tells everyone to take the 13, then the 13 will be locked up
and she'll have to tell people to take the 15! she should tell half the
people to go one way and half to go the other way"
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september 12
chloe, it's very late, time to go to bed, it's nearly the middle of the
night
how late is it, like, if i was an owl, what time of day would it be?
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september 09
age 7
category: CLASSIC
dad puts bread on the table,
right in front of her, where she is happily eating pasta
i say
"i don't know
why dad gave you bread, that wasn't such a good idea, now you'll eat
the bread and not eat your pasta"
later, Ernie brings EVEN more
bread, this time it's toasted garlic bread which he's toasted for us.
chloe says
"Is
that
part of our supper, or is it just another BAD idea?"
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December 2 2008
age 6
I'm kissing her goodnight, and
couldn't remember if I had told her something or not, so I told her
just in case i hadn't.
she says:
"you already told me that! you
already told me that ten times!"
and, raising her eyebrows, says very
seriously,
"and that was the number eleven!"
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June
2009
on the way to work...
The news on
the radio was talking about Peloquin being ‘an excellent’ soldier (he
died yesterday in Afghanastan)
And chloe
repeats, “He was an excellent soldier?” in the sense of, "what a shame,
they lost an excellent soldier"
Then she
says “Soldiers mostly walk but when they tired they go in their trucks”
and they walk mostly at night cause that’s when there are voleurs”
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Then,
totally out of the blue, she says:
“Did you
invent your code to go on the internet (in french) at work?”
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Last night,
while she’s sitting on the toilet, she says
“So what
time again do the news people get up?”
I say ‘It
depends on what time they have to be on the radio”
Then she
says “Is there more than one news person?” (she is fascinated with the
fact that the radio is always on, and wondering how that person talks
on the radio 24/7)
Then she
answers her own question “Well yes, there has to be one for Montreal, one
for Africa Spain etc”
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April 2009
CLASSIC
So tonight before bed, chloe chose the
children's bible that Kathy sent her in 2005.
She chose to read the story about
Solomon. (One I have to admit I wasn't fvery amiliar with).
As the story goes, there's two woman,
one dead baby, and one living baby. Both women are arguing that the
living baby is theirs, so Solomon orders the guards to cut the baby in
half and give each woman half. Of course one of the women (I'm still
not sure if it was the real mother giving up her child to save it or
not) falls down shouting to save the child and give it to the other.
(That Solomon sure knows how to put an
end to an argument.)
After the story I asked Chloe if she
understood what happened. She says "It's like if there is only one free
cell phone for 5 dollars and someone wants to break it" !!!!!!!!!!!
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chloe quotes for nov.11:
"ok, there's something strange. i want to know why do we exist. why do
i exist, and why does the planet exist?"
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August 2008
CLASSIC
So she's
sitting on the couch watching PBS and they are explaining that
you have to choose your words carefully because words have power.
so i ask her, Chloe, did you hear
that? Words have power, you have to choo- and she interupts me, her
right hand making a small chopping motion, to indicate the
determination of her words,
"What is the power for? What is the
power for words, I don't understand..."
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"Alot of things decaved"
August 2009
(alot of things decay)
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CLASSIC A1
"Did the 'fin du monde' ever happen?
April 20 2008
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August 14, 2008
"Mommy, yesterday when I was waiting for you, i was lonlier than a
guinea pig who was missing it's family"
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