How to know you're raising a nerd, Part II

93Devil · Mar 7, 2008

Biggest dork in the world owns the Redskins.

Just thought I would mention that.

Bob Cook · Mar 7, 2008

FirstDownPirates said:

For next Christmas, you can get them Dungeons and Dragons cards, or dice, or whatever it is you people dork out with.
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Sheesh, I hope you don't play fantasy sports, Mr. I'm-Not-A-Dork.

mike311gd · Mar 7, 2008

Who's up for a rousing game of Magic: The Gathering?

Armchair_QB · Mar 7, 2008

Bob Cook said:

Faithful SportsJournalists.com readers might remember the story I told about my 5-year-old arguing with another kid at Chicago's Museum Science and Industry over whether the Star Wars pod racer on the other side of the glass was Sebulba's, and that my son was right that it was. That was Part I.

Part II happened this week. My 10-year-old son has been laid out with the flu, so he's had some time to do a bit of movie watching. I introduced him to one of my favorites, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which I've seen so much I can recite all the dialogue from memory, like every other Python nerd. Would my son follow in my footsteps?

Oh, hell yea. He's watched it, it seems, 20 times, and is constantly reciting dialogue. He's even watched some of the extras, like the Lego version of the song and dance at Camelot.

I'm shedding a tear of joy right now.

Ni!
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The guys I ran with in high school were, and still are, big Monty Python fans. Well a few weeks ago one of those buddies called and left a message that his 11-year-old son came home from school quoting Holy Grail lines.

When I got ahold of him a couple of days later he said that he called me as soon as his kid got home that day. His son asked him who he was calling and my buddy told him "Somebody who will appreciate this."

As soon as he got off the phone they went downstairs and watched the DVD. Said it was his greatest day as a dad.

93Devil · Mar 7, 2008

Armchair_QB said:

Bob Cook said:

Faithful SportsJournalists.com readers might remember the story I told about my 5-year-old arguing with another kid at Chicago's Museum Science and Industry over whether the Star Wars pod racer on the other side of the glass was Sebulba's, and that my son was right that it was. That was Part I.

Part II happened this week. My 10-year-old son has been laid out with the flu, so he's had some time to do a bit of movie watching. I introduced him to one of my favorites, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which I've seen so much I can recite all the dialogue from memory, like every other Python nerd. Would my son follow in my footsteps?

Oh, hell yea. He's watched it, it seems, 20 times, and is constantly reciting dialogue. He's even watched some of the extras, like the Lego version of the song and dance at Camelot.

I'm shedding a tear of joy right now.

Ni!
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The guys I ran with in high school were, and still are, big Monty Python fans. Well a few weeks ago one of those buddies called and left a message that his 11-year-old son came home from school quoting Holy Grail lines.

When I got ahold of him a couple of days later he said that he called me as soon as his kid got home that day. His son asked him who he was calling and my buddy told him "Somebody who will appreciate this."

As soon as he got off the phone they went downstairs and watched the DVD. Said it was his greatest day as a dad.
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Does your wife, and his mother, smell of elderberries?

Bob Cook · Mar 7, 2008

No,

93Devil said:

Armchair_QB said:

Bob Cook said:

Faithful SportsJournalists.com readers might remember the story I told about my 5-year-old arguing with another kid at Chicago's Museum Science and Industry over whether the Star Wars pod racer on the other side of the glass was Sebulba's, and that my son was right that it was. That was Part I.

Part II happened this week. My 10-year-old son has been laid out with the flu, so he's had some time to do a bit of movie watching. I introduced him to one of my favorites, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which I've seen so much I can recite all the dialogue from memory, like every other Python nerd. Would my son follow in my footsteps?

Oh, hell yea. He's watched it, it seems, 20 times, and is constantly reciting dialogue. He's even watched some of the extras, like the Lego version of the song and dance at Camelot.

I'm shedding a tear of joy right now.

Ni!
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The guys I ran with in high school were, and still are, big Monty Python fans. Well a few weeks ago one of those buddies called and left a message that his 11-year-old son came home from school quoting Holy Grail lines.

When I got ahold of him a couple of days later he said that he called me as soon as his kid got home that day. His son asked him who he was calling and my buddy told him "Somebody who will appreciate this."

As soon as he got off the phone they went downstairs and watched the DVD. Said it was his greatest day as a dad.
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Does your wife, and his mother, smell of elderberries?
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No, she would be a hamster, and he would smell of elderberries.

zebracoy · Mar 7, 2008

But does he, Bob, know the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Buck · Mar 7, 2008

You might as well start knocking him down when he walks past you.
Get him used to it.

Bob Cook · Mar 7, 2008

zebracoy said:

But does he, Bob, know the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
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African or European?

You knew I was going to say that when you asked, didn't you?

zeke12 · Mar 7, 2008

Buck said:

You might as well start knocking him down when he walks past you.
Get him used to it.
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Quality.

a_rosenthal · Mar 7, 2008

When you give the 'birds and bees' speech, make sure you let him know he won't actually be having any sex until his college years at the earliest.

Ace · Mar 7, 2008

I've got a nerd and a jock. No Monty Python, but I may wean them on Time Bandits.

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