I love it when kids mispronounce things. Especially in public. Like what happened at the park this morning…
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It’s one of those idyllic Australian summer mornings -although I’m sitting in the shade of a European tree - mild temperature, no cloud, slight cool breeze. Families playing happily around me. My son and his friend are off playing Jedis and I’m reading my latest mindless fiction acquisition.
The two boys appear at my elbow, asking my help in deciding what their Jedi names should be. After I make a few suggestions - which are completely dismissed of course - Youngest Son’s friend says that he wants to be a certain character (a minor Jedi) who I can’t recall.
In his frustration to describe the character to me, he eventually blurts at the top of his voice “You know, the guy with the long testicles on his head!”
What episode of Star Wars was that in? I think to myself.
“I … think you mean, tentacles,” I chuckle, “Yes, I know who you mean now…” (See photo below).
Glad I worked that one out quickly…
Thanks to fellow blogger Tanya for recently recording a similar incident that made me chuckle also. You can visit Hard Teats for the full story…
…Oh, and here’s that Star Wars fellow we were discussing earlier.



5 responses so far ↓
bryan // Jan 25, 2008 at 2:46 pm
nice…we call that one obi-teabag-on
michmolk // Jan 25, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Oops!
Bill // Jan 26, 2008 at 4:28 am
That’s classic. The guy with the long testicles! HA! Jack still calls them tescalators and vagina is pajama… love kids and their verbal slip ups…..
tanya25m // Jan 26, 2008 at 7:02 pm
That was hilarious! And thanks for the link!
themolk // Jan 28, 2008 at 9:38 pm
I love kids mis-pronounciations/word-replacements. Just golden.
That Star Wars Jedi shall now be know as ‘Testiculus’ forever more…
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