Setting: Dinner tonight
Background: Assume Bones' name is Aiden. My sister changed the Dreidel song, about 12 years ago, when he was a toddler, to "Aiden Aiden Aiden, we made you out of clay..." It's just something we've always sung ever since.
Tonight's Conversation:
Me to the older boys: During the winter concert, the girls choir sang the Dreidel song. Afterwards I said to Bones, "Hey, they sang your song." And Bones looked puzzled so I said, "You know the song that Aunt Mo sings, "Aiden, Aiden Aiden, we made you out of clay..." That song... and Bones said to me, "OH! THAT'S where she got it?!!!"
Ringo: Bwahahaha. After all these years Bones didn't know Aunt Mo used the Dreidel song?
Mr. T: Sheesh. *laughing*
Ringo to Bones: You're so uncultured...
Bones: Hey. I'm cultured. I know that Martin Luther King was killed by James Earl Jones.
Collective *blink* from the four of us.
My husband: Bones. That was NOT James Earl Jones. I'm sure he'd be surprised to learn he was responsible for Martin Luther King's Death.
Ringo, in a Darth Vader Voice: Luuuuke... I killed Martin Luther King...
Holy crap. You can't make this stuff up.
Posted by Boudicca at January 17, 2012 07:55 PMA few years back James earl jones won a mlk award of some type, the Texas based company contracted to make it engraved it with: "thank you James earl ray for keeping the dream alive"
http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/mlkplaque.asp
Posted by: K-nine at January 18, 2012 12:54 AMLots of color in your world lately. ;-)
Posted by: vwbug at January 18, 2012 05:51 AMK-nine beat me to it; I was going to share the same thing. I don't know how surprised Jones would be after that mishap.
Posted by: amelie /rae at January 18, 2012 08:09 AMThat article on Snopes is CRAZY! The way that company handled it was horrific. I like how James Earl Jones handled it, however. That man has class...
Posted by: Bou at January 18, 2012 08:36 AMdying over heah.
Posted by: caltechgirl at January 19, 2012 03:15 PM