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[ SECRET POST #2543 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2543 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Fangirl]

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[Anne Neville, The White Queen]

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[Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan]

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[Merlin]

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[Elementary]

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[Whitechapel]

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[Grey's Anatomy]

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08.

(Legend of Korra)

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[Papa Pear Saga + Doctor Who]

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[Godfrey Gao as Magnus Bane in "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones"]

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[Kwon Yuri, Tiffany Hwang and Jessica Jung of Girls' Generation]

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[Les Miserables/Anton Zetterholm/Rob Houchen]

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... tell me what profound or funny things children have said to you.

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How about creepy? I was skyping with my neice and she started telling me about the shadow figure who turns her lights on and off, and walks through walls. O.O

Recently, I was at a friend's house and described someone I knew as "acting like a robot." My friend's son (4 years old) was very alarmed:

Him: Is he really a robot? They're scary!
Me: No, no, sweetie. He's a person.
(My friend started to explain to metaphors to him, but then her other child demanded attention and I was left alone with her son.)
Him: (whispering) Maybe he's just playing a game and pretending to be a robot.
Me: Yeah, maybe.
Him: Or maybe he really *is* a robot and you were right.

I ised to live 13 hours away and only came home twice a year. One time, I was getting ready to leave and trying to get a hug from my niece. This exchange happened:

You better come give me a hug, because I won't be back for a long time.

How long?

Probably six months. *she runs over to hug me*

Let's hug for six months!!

I teach elementary school english in Korea, and my students use the funniest Konglish.

'Sandy': *raising hand indignantly* Teacher! Teacher!
Me: What's the matter?
'Sandy': *points at neighboring student* She is...look my paper, she is...*flails hands a bit* she is HACKING!
Me: Hacking? ...OH, she's CHEATING!

My little brother also had a way with words when he was little. When he was no older than 3 he would consistently say "Too long journey" instead of "Too far away." "You want me to throw that away, bud? Your legs aren't broke, why don't you do it yourself?" "No, sissy. Too long journey." And when he was eight he described the feeling of sleepwalking as "IT's like I'm falling into a vortex!"

"Class, can you tell me what other objects are cylinders?"

"Daddy's beer can!"

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I was stocking at the grocery store a while back when a woman came through the aisle leading a line of kids, so I moved aside to let them through. A couple of them nodded or smiled at me as they passed, but the last one -- a little boy, probably about six or seven years old -- shouted, "Yo, whazzup!" and held up his hand for a high-five. Of course he got one.

I don't really have anything but my roommate is a teacher and she has a million of them. I'll have to tell her to come here and share.

I don't get to see my niece as often as I would like and she doesn't have the best home life so I try to cram in all the affection and self esteem building I can whenever we're together. So one day when I was doing my usual ~you must like being you a lot look how wonderful and special and smart you are~ Mr. Rogers impersonation she looked me in the eyes put her tiny hand on my arm and said "Like you."

eta: I don't remember the exact comment I made to prompt her but I think it was something about how proud of her I was for her being kind to a moth.

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One time my great nephew was doing something and we were telling him no, no, don't do that, it's dangerous. His reply: "I'm no stranger to danger!"

Also, my neice took the same great-nephew to some little park that had alligators and he was acting out. She told him if he didn't stop, she was going to throw him in with them and he said, "But C, the sign says you're not suppose to feed the animals!"

My sister is a preschool teacher so she has a ton of these stories. One of her students was particularly quotable. He called a boiled egg a "wild egg" once, and Jamba Juice was "Pajama Juice."

i work at a childcare centre and today we had our chistmas concert where all the kids sing for the parents. our santa was the teenaged brother of one of the preschool girls. while he was santa, she went up to one of the other teachers and said "i know santa's real name!" and we got kind of nervous, including her brother and then she said "it's nicholas!" and we were relieved.

after he got out of the santa costume, he went back to see his sister and she said "hey where were you?! you missed santa!!" it'll be funny for when she's older.

I teach 2-year-olds, I hear crazy shit all day every day. I have one little boy who declares everything to be "straight from Germany!", and once a different boy called from his napmat, "Teacher, I forgot how to go to sleep!" and I said "Close your eyes!" and he said "Oh yeeeah! Thanks!"

"It's Rapunzel!"
"He's from Rapunzel!"

Yesterday, watching Frozen with a 6 year old. I laughed.

Another favourite, she's come home and can't have an icecream. Didn't know that yet but she's sulking in bed, asked her what's up. "EVERYTHING IS TERRABABLE"

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I was helping to supervise some preschoolers at recess once, and a girl was feeling down because her twin brother didn't want to play with her. I went to sit with her, and at one point she gave the most world-weary sigh and said, "Now I know crazy runs in my family."

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One day I was explaining astrological signs to my siblings when my brother asked what his was. I wasn't sure and was tying to remember which signs went with what months when my little sister (who was about seven at the time iirc) piped up and said "Oh I remember. He's a Feces."

To this day I am unsure if she was honestly mispronouncing Pisces.

I have a little sister ._. I feel like I should have something to contribute, but for the life of me I can't remember any quote.

This must speak terribly of me as an older sis.

I was babysitting a three-year-old one time, and we were just kind of hanging out, playing a pretend game or w/e, when she just turns to me and goes "when I was really little I was big in my mom's tummy but then her brain wanted to squirt me out."
Probably the most succinct summary of childbirth I've ever heard.

A little awkward, but I was watching the same girl another time like a year later, and she was crying and throwing a bit of a fit because I pinched her while putting on her bike helmet (I felt real bad about it). Her older brother (like six y.o.) brings out his bunny Blueberry to distract her, and she finally calms down and walks over to see him. She's holding the bunny on his back and petting his tummy, then after a minute loudly declares "BLUEBERRY'S BALLS ARE BIGGER THAN DADDY'S!!!" I'm dying and meanwhile her parents were still there in the process of getting into the car, her dad's like "what'd she say????" and her mom's like 'nothing nothing don't worry!" her older brother meanwhile is like "no you don't need to say that so loudly....but yeah they are pretty big" omg I couldn't handle it what do you even say to that??

I remember when my youngest brother was like 4 (and I was in my early 20s), he saw me folding a load of my underwear, and... well, I'm small, so I have to wear girls' underwear, and it's hard to find girls' underwear that isn't frilly or has cutesy crap printed on it, so my underwear had glittery pink flowers on it. And my brother sees them, and he goes "I wish I had underwear like that!" I kind of wanted to laugh, because THERE'S something I could tell his friends about when he's a teenager, right?

Except that honestly, if he grew up and wanted to wear underwear with glittery pink flowers on it? I would absolutely defend his right to do so. So I was like "I really sort of wish I had some plain underwear like you have. But hey - when you get older, you can wear whatever underwear you want to wear."

Now he's a teenager, a proud brony, identifies as pansexual, and has an interest in social justice when it comes to gender/LGBT issues, so for all I know he might still be into the idea if I were to remind him of it.

I teach Drama (and have taught Kindergarten to 12th grade over the last 13 years.) Definitely some fun quotes over the years. :-)

Most profound ever (from the mouth of a boppy 8th grade cheerleader when answering the question of whether teenagers know what true love is): "I think kids know what love is; we just don't know how to be IN love."
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Most cringe-inducing (when discussing all of the ways you can die in a restaurant bathroom - um, long story): "Yeah! You could poop out an orgasm!"

Me (after I picked my jaw up off of the floor): "Um...I think you mean ORGAN."

Her: "Oh, yeah! That's what I meant!"
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Most unexpected (from the big, huge 15-year-old boy who is doing an anti-drugs puppet show with the most shy, innocent 12-year-old girl in the room): "Drugs made me a crack addict. They also made me a pimp. GIMME MY MONEY, HO!"
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From a boy when my classroom was a one of those mobile trailers: "CAN I GO OUT BACK AND PEE?!"

Me: "No."
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One year I had this class that was REALLY difficult. So when I had to be out for three or four days because I came down with the flu, I had them watch "West Side Story". *ahem* When I got back, one of the kids said, "Ms. G! This be the lamest gang I ever saw! They don't be fightin'! They just be singin' and dancin'!"

Heh. :-)

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When I was a kid back in the days before this would have resulted in a call to Children's Protective Services, I didn't like to take baths, like, AT ALL. So my mom would literally throw me in the bathtub with my dad, because hey, at least I'd get clean that way. This continued until the day I walked up to my dad and his best friend in church and said quite matter-of-factly, "My daddy has a pretty penis."

Well, you know - congrats, Dad!

At a funeral, the adorable 5 year old grandson of the deceased pronounced "Have you seen my pop-pop? He's all laid out cold as a chicken."

My nephew told my sister once, "Mommy, what's an undertoad?" I laughed so hard at that.

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Maybe not profound but it still makes me tear up thinking about it

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