Evangeline and I took the train today.

On the train, we told jokes. Well, I told jokes, and Evangeline tried to keep up.

So, how do you know if there's an elephant in your refrigerator?

( How, Connie? )

How do you know if there are two elephants in your refrigerator?

( How, Connie? )

How do you know if there are three elephants in your refrigerator?

( How, Connie? )

How do you know if there are four elephants in your refrigerator?

( How, Connie? )

Evangeline thought that last one was pretty funny, so she decided to try a few of her own. I'm not quite sure she got the point, though....

How do you fit four elephants in a cloud?

( How, Evangeline? )

How do you fit four elephants in a kitchen?

( How, Evangeline? )

When she got to this one, I was a little tired and I sighed a bit.

How do you fit four elephants in a baby?

( Wait for it.... )

I lol'd. Shouldn't've, it only encouraged her, but I was so surprised! Morbid child.

(This is only topped by the time she asked me, with great ceremony, "How does a fish eat a sandwich?" and then gave me the punchline "WITH HIS BUTT!". She gets the form, but not the content yet.)

I like poems.

I do! I memorize them, and I read them, and I recite them.

I was in the bookstore, anyway, thinking about the books I'll buy month after next. Ana's proven to be madly in love with Shel Silverstein - she worked her way through Runny Babbit as I read it, and that's a bard hook! - so I was thinking I'll get his opus used, and then I saw some Prelutzky.

I had a book by him as a kid, I'm thinking, so I pick it up and flip through it. Mind you, the *only* thing I remembered by him was "a bouncing mouse is in my house". And yet, I saw one page. I saw the title: Homework. And instantly, years since I've read it (and I know I never tried to memorize this one, I lost the book before I realized one could just *do* that), the first line sprang to mind:

Homework, o homework, I hate you! You stink!

*giggles*

Oh, well, I never did do my homework as a kid!

It's amazing the things that stick in the mind, though, isn't it?

Hey, incidentally, is there a reason YouTube has stopped working for me?

No sound on any videos? Most of them freezing up three seconds in *anyway*, so the lack of sound matters not?