X-Ray vision? Nah, Zurg Vision
I was starting to wonder this evening if the boy had X-ray vision. Since we got the new fridge we've been really careful to make sure we always put the child lock on after getting water or ice, and when it's tea-time we stand between him and the machine so he can't see what's happening.
So when he got a glass, shouted "water" and pressed both levers with it, realised nothing was coming out, and started pressing buttons to unlock the child lock I started to think he could see through me.
"You make a better door then a window"A phrase I used to hear often when I found myself stood in the line of sight of my mother and the latest episode of Emmerdale Farm (as it was then). Or other phrases too dodgy to publish on the internet. No matter when there's x-ray vision on the go.
Or could there be an alternate explanation????
Buzz is his favourite pal at the moment. Somewhere slightly ahead of Sully, way ahead of Wallace, and a gazillion miles ahead of Daddy. As there's no such thing as a gazillion you can ignore that last bit. Unless any retired maths teachers out there want to correct me, that is.
The opening sequence of Toy Story 2 stars Buzz trying to infiltrate Zurg's lair in a quest to find the source of Zurg's power. And this scene is well known by our little observer.
In a tunnel, Buzz is chased by a spiked wall. Just before the spikes start, we watch the tag race between sofas as the wee fella imitates what is about to happen. Then the spiked wall starts to chase buzz, and we see a jump - again, just before Buzz jumps through the closing door at the end.
The floating discs bridge. As Buzz approaches: Jump, jump, jump, jump-jump. Closely followed by Buzz doing the same. And so it goes, "uh-oh" just before Buzz falls as the bridge collapses, right arm up just before Buzz switches on the anti-gravity belt yelling "To infinity, and beyond" with his left arm out - AH-HA! - Got you, wrong arm!!!
And thus, the boy does NOT know the entire scene at all. Only 99% of it!
Observant? Learns? Remembers? Not at all....
Actually, that reminds me of my GCSE maths teacher spending 3 nights with her husband going through my mock GCSE paper looking for a mistake because she refused to give me 100% - she found one, right enough... 99%
And if you are wondering what Zurg vision is, I suggest you watch the film!
Comments
For the gazillionth time - Buzz is king!
In another life as a maths teacher (pre-GCSE when the subject was still challenging) a googol was regarded as the largest named number and was 10 to the power 100.
It's all relative however and in class I once mentioned the number 378. A kid at the front gulped "threeee-hundreddd-and-sevvventy-eigghht!", almost fainted and fell off his chair.
Posted by: Snoopy | January 18, 2009 2:52 PM
It wasn't because he got a whiff of your feet was it? He was at the front, after all!
Posted by: Lee | January 21, 2009 8:48 PM