I have trained (more or less) that from 8:55 a.m. to 9 a.m. there is to be no speaking while Writer’s Almanac is on. For those five minutes I insist<\/i> on absolute silence in the car (because inevitably we are on our way somewhere). I’ve had a bit of luck with this. The other 12 hours and 55 minutes of their waking hour is filled with chatter, specifically questions. Specifically questions from Doodles. Specifically inane questions that I attempt to answer accurately for about the first 37 minutes before giving in to the pat answers of “I don’t know,” “Why don’t you ask your father?” and “What?!?”<\/p>\n
Doodles has a question matrix. Basically, column A is a noun. Column B is a verb. Column C can be just about anything. Column A’s nouns consist primarily of the following words, although others can be added at any time: volcanoes, dinosaurs, pharaohs, trees, babies, grown-ups. Column B includes: born, die, have, make. Column C is completely random. So for instance, today we had: Did pharaohs die in space? Do trees have bones? Do volcanoes have bones? Occasionally, he throws a real question in there (“Mommy, why did the dinosaurs die?”), just to keep me on my toes and to keep me tuning out completely. Of course, half the time I don’t know the answer to the question, to which my pat answer is, “Let’s call Peter” (who is Doodle and Pie’s grandfather). Peter doesn’t know everything, but he thinks<\/i> he knows everything, and right now, that’s good enough for me.<\/p>\n
So let me ask you: Do pygmy warthogs like to eat dessert?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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