Wednesday, May 28, 2008

A conversation with Toddler Jeneric

One thousand points to the first person who can correctly translate!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

"This goes this way. That's what Frank Lloyd Wright said."

Prove us wrong.
Grandma and Grandpa

Anonymous said...

Oh please, it's obviously a discussion of the fluid nature of pre-legonian architecture with a demonstration of the design considerations that must be made when working with materials that incorporate multi-variable surface dimensions.

I think Toddler Jeneric should submit this work to a peer-review journal, as she presents some fascinating points.

AKW said...

Toddler Jeneric:

"Gaze ye all upon my great works!"

"Tremble as I build a tower of Babylonian excess utilizing my sheer Ozymandias-like will and, uh, Kubrickian imaginative power!"

"I shall leave an everlasting edifice, and alter by which future generations shall worship...."

"Whoops!"

"Darn, it fell..."

"Where did Mommy and Daddy put the mortar mix...?"

Anonymous said...

Not bad but I wonder if mommy would mind if I used some glue now and then?

grammy and grampy

astrojob said...

Here's the full text of what Toddler Jeneric is saying, cleverly disguised in her "baby talk" language:
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"The key to escaping from this room is to construct a “Toddler Jeneric lookalike” from these blocks. The lookalike will stand in for me, so that my parents will not know that I've gone to the kitchen to steal some food. Now, I have completed the lookalike by attaching the cylindrically shaped head.

No! That doesn't work. The lookalike isn't tall enough. I need two purple blocks for the torso. And here we are, I've added the purple torso, and now place the cylindrical head atop the body.

Applause! Applause! The lookalike is completed!

What's this? A camera lurks in the corner of the room, watching my every move. I must destroy the lookalike immediately. Let's knock these purple blocks away, and the upper body of the lookalike is destroyed. I will, however, assemble a completed upper body here on the floor for later use.

No, that's too obvious. Better that I destory these upper body components immediately so as not to arouse suspicion. Here, I'll make it look like I'm just clumsily knocking them over by adding other blocks to the structure that won't balance properly.

Now this is serious. I'm going to have to make it look like I'm just playing with blocks. First, I'd better sit cross-legged, as that's a more appropriate pose for idle block stacking with no diabolical purposes involved. Now, I'll just do some simple stacking, and make it look like I'm just an innocent clumsy baby who can't even handle stacking four blocks on one another. And yes, look Mom and Dad, it's fallen over. See, I don't really know what I'm doing here, do I?

No, this charade can't go on any longer. Perhaps by combining this yellow and this orange block together, I can construct a crude device to jam the signal in the video camera. There, it's done. They have stopped recording, and I can return to my original plan."
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There, that's what she's saying, isn't it? I can clearly make it out in my deciphering of her baby talk language.

Now, where's my 1000 points?