Cooking, Kid Style
As she has in years past, Logan Elementary School teacher Dawn Bennett asked her kindergartners, “How do you cook a turkey?”
Their answers included:
“Go to the grocery store. Get one as big as a computer.”
“You kill it with a knife sometime and a gun.”
“You take all the fur off.”
“First you stuff it with I think chicken.”
“You have to cook him 9 degrees for 62.”
“When smoke and stuff is coming out it’s done.”
“It’s done when it dings.”
Bon appetit.
* Special prayers: Beth Biel heard her 6-year-old daughter, Courtney, ask God for the energy to chase boys during recess.
And Emily Simons told about how she sometimes tickles her young son’s back before he goes to sleep. Well, one night she was just too tired to do it. So during his bedtime prayers, her son asked for divine intervention in getting his mom to tickle his back.
The lad got his wish.
* Do-It-Yourself KO Department: About 10 years ago, when Grand Coulee’s Waylan Funk was in high school in Prosser, Wash., she was doing the backstroke during a swim meet when she hit her head on the end of the pool — hard. Later, she would be told that she kept swimming for a bit. But she had to admit she couldn’t remember much after bonking her head. “I think it’s hilarious now,” she said.
* Advice for the colds and flu season: Wash hands and avoid places where people breathe and touch things.
* Slice answers: Timothy Finneran filled in the blank this way:
“I’ve never met a Californian who didn’t find some way to refer to his/her occupation within the first 15 seconds of the conversation.”
J.B. Sing said he knows what makes Spokane Spokane. “Spokane is a mind-set,” he said. “No matter what the facts are, my mind is set.”
We’re told Rick and Marie Lambert’s daughter Allison attends MIT.
And Jenny Trainer told about the time she rented “The Three Lives of Thomasina” for her young daughter. Two of her sons — then aged 14 and 16 — asked what the movie was about. Trainer told them it was an XXX film she had chosen as a sex education offering. “They were ecstatic, to say the least,” she wrote. “Their joy was soon overturned when the movie started playing and they realized they had been duped.”
* Today’s Slice question: What lunch order virtually guarantees that you won’t be able to open your mouth after eating because of all the food stuck to your teeth and gums?