Convention

December 31, 2023

Non-Veteran Friend:  Isn’t that the Geneva Convention?  You can’t leave a dead person behind?
Veteran Friend:  That’s called a “dead check,” and it’s frowned upon.

Forcefully

December 30, 2023

Friend:  It had to be removed and forcefully disassembled.

Expel

December 29, 2023

Eleven-Year-Old:  I need to expel useless fluids from my body.
Me:  We will be home in one minute.
Eleven-Year-Old:  I need to pee.
Me:  Yeah, we got that.  As I said, we will be home in about one minute.  Do you want me to pull over so you can go in someone’s yard?

Butane

December 28, 2023

Sixteen-Year-Old:  If you caught fire, why are you covered in butane?

Cheerleaders

December 27, 2023

Man:  Only in high school are there allowed to be butt ugly cheerleaders.

War Horn

December 26, 2023

Eleven-Year-Old:  How about having a war horn?  Is that bourgeois?

Okay, that’s pretty bourgeois.

Barge

December 25, 2023

Eleven-Year-Old:  “Sounds like a barge coming through.”  Is that bourgeois?
Me:  Yes, barges are very bourgeois.
Eleven-Year-Old:  No, I meant belching!  Calvin and Hobbes reference!
Me:  I know what you meant.

Father

December 24, 2023

Eleven-Year-Old:  I hate it when my father is right!
Me:  You must hate it all the time then.

Shaving

December 23, 2023

First Friend:  Do you know where [Bartender] is?
Me:  I think she’s cutting limes.
Second Friend:  She’s cutting limes, and I’m afraid she may also be shaving the back of my head.

Pellets

December 22, 2023

Friend:  We should have cut open the stomach of the owl.  A six-hundred-pound owl, it’s owl pellets might have had something valuable—magic items, or….