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  How about those Dolphins?

  w00t!

  - bob | 03:43pm 5 Feb 07
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  This is a very endearing tale - a young boy with a dream, who does not yet realize that marrying a football team is socially unacceptable and that even if it weren’t, he probably wouldn’t enjoy being married to a football team. I spent some time with the lad a few years ago, and aside from being a stunningly attractive child, he is also a very intelligent and inquistive little one. Since working out the details of what football team to marry provide us with the building blocks we will use to answer questions in our adult life, I feel that the child has stumbled upon something that is much deeper than he could realize at his tender age. If the Chargers are his favorite team, why is he going to marry the Steelers? Does he feel obligated to marry the Steelers because he lives in Pittsburgh? Because they are the same? The Steelers live in Pittsburgh (in theory,) and he lives in Pittsburgh. Just like Prince Charles had to marry Diana instead of Camilla Parker-Bowles because Diana was born of royal stock and Camilla was born of the proletariat. Ok, in my head this made more sense, but I think I’ve lost my own point. Anyway, hi Tristan, and don’t ever stop saying adorable, creative things that are more astute than you could ever know until you’re a little bit taller.

  - Mollie | 05:47pm 6 Feb 07
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  Height definitely does equate to wisdom, you’ve got that right.

  Great insights into the mind of the ever-baffling Tristan David.

  And nice to hear from you, Mollie!

  - nathan | 08:23pm 7 Feb 07
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  Nice sarcasm, Nathan!

  I didn’t say that height equates to wisdom. Obviously, it doesn’t. I just thought it was a cuter way of saying older, but being older obviously doesn’t equate to wisdom either.

  I also did not say that Tristan is baffling. I was simply implying that sometimes children (Tristan in this instance) say things unintentionally that are far more in tune with our widely accepted, societal mores than they (obviously) could realize at their young age.

  Thanks for being an m-fer. Sorry that my blog banter isn’t up to par. I’ll try to stop myself from posting absurd comments in the future.

  - Mollie | 01:44am 8 Feb 07
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  i’m pretty sure that your last comment was the only absurd one…but i suppose it’s possible that i could be wrong

  - chad | 03:01pm 10 Feb 07
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  Whoazers. Sorry to hit a nerve, I was just kidding and completely agree with you.

  Except that sometimes I wonder how much “more” I actually do know, being a grown-up and all. Sometimes I really believe that he just has an insight into the world that makes more sense. Or that the things that take adults some time to digest and interpret into their own personal experiences which have resulted in our individual “moral fibers”, kids can often just digest and express like their youthful metabolisms do to their mac and cheese.

  So, I guess I’m the one who finds Tristan baffling and I really liked hearing what you had to say, FYI. Very little sarcasm involved.

  - nathan | 03:27pm 10 Feb 07
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  Shut up, Chad. (Sike.)
  Well, dear, I’m sorry for being so inflammatory then. I think I assume you’re being sarcastic most if not all of the time, but I don’t hang out with you regularly anymore, so perhaps I’m running outdated software. Plus, when I retorted, it was about 4:00 in the a.m., and I had a headache, and I was strung-out and cranky from doing my statistics homework and looking at Excel spreadsheets for a good eight hours. So, my nerves were already frazzled, and I’m a sensitive, paranoid individual to begin with.
  Anyway, yeah,…..I don’t think we give babies/children (many children but some in particular) enough credit for what they are aware of. I think they’re often more open to being aware in general because they have not yet clogged up their synapses by worrying about things like, am I a good person, how am I going to pay my electric bill, is my resume eye-catching, if I take this job, will I be selling out everything that makes me who I am for the almighty dollar, do these jeans make me look fat and so on. And I think Tristan is an old soul, which only serves to heighten his sense of awareness. P to the E A, C to the E OUT.

  - Mollie | 09:01pm 10 Feb 07
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  word.

  - nathan | 11:24pm 10 Feb 07