Daleks + children. But not at the same time.

[elisi]

I... have no words: Dalek found in pond.

Of course then fandom (yet again) goes and proves itself to be made of awesome, by immediately making a comm for 'How did the Dalek get there?' stories: dalekinthepond! :)

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And, since I'm here, I thought I could relate a couple of stories about the children, which is something I do far too seldom.

From this morning when we were walking to school:

Impish Girl (7): Mum! Guess what I found in school yesterday?
Me: Go on, tell me.
Impish Girl (triumphantly): A pen that doesn't work!
(She held it up under my nose - it is v. short & red)
Impish Girl: See I'm pretending that it is a sonic lipstick. And also an invisible pen and a laser!

And from a couple of weeks ago (but it really stuck with me):

Miss M (10): Mum - what does gormless mean?
Me: Um... stupid. Vacant-looking.
Miss M: OK.
(Pause)
Miss M: What's a gorm?
Me: ...

(Of course the second we got home I looked it up in the OED, and it turns out that 'gorm' comes from the old norse gaum, meaning 'understanding'.)

Comments

[chloris67.livejournal.com]

Go Impish Girl! Only a child would look at a broken pen and see a sonic lipstick/laser.

Heh. I thought gorm referred to something else entirely. Something in the male anatomy.

[elisi]

Go Impish Girl! Only a child would look at a broken pen and see a sonic lipstick/laser.
I know! And she was so HAPPY! *squishes her*

Heh. I thought gorm referred to something else entirely. Something in the male anatomy.
Well you learn something new every day. :)

[hello-spikey.livejournal.com]

woo hoo! Daleks were built to last!

Love that picture of the guy holding up the head, all covered in pond-weed.

And: woo OED! Another mystery solved!

I lovers the OED. Hope I never have to, like, buy myown copy!

Adore the snippets of childish wonder. Look! A pen that doesn't work! Legendary find!

[elisi]

Your comment made me grin muchly, and yes to everything. :)

(Darcy would LOVE his own [hardback] copy of the OED. I'm telling him to earn a million or two first...)

[hello-spikey.livejournal.com]

My husband has come close to getting me a copy - if by "close" you mean "Priced the DVD version".

Tempting!!

But I work for a university, and so the online OED is at my fingertips, 24/7! Whee!

Gorm away!

[elisi]

My husband has come close to getting me a copy - if by "close" you mean "Priced the DVD version".
I think there's some sort of two volume TINY print cut-down version that Darcy has his eyes on...

Words are fun! :)

[adoxerella.livejournal.com]

Your chillen's make me smile with their very quick minds.

Also, I have to ask, OED=Oxford English Dictionary, right? How much does one cost??!?!? I don't remember my paperback version being that expensive. OR are we talking about the full, bazzillion word version. All I know is I much prefer it to Websters or American Herritage. That's right, I'm dissing my own country's dictionaries, but seriously they add slang words to them all the time for no reason. /rant

Also, I may be begging for your help with Buffy in my GP fic. She is being annoyingly non-Buffy like. I need your expertise. (I don't know what her problem is, just because Conner and George are being purposefully non-helpful...)

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

My parents bought that, years ago. It came with its very own magnifying glass as part of the package...

[yourlibrarian]

Of course then fandom (yet again) goes and proves itself to be made of awesome, by immediately making a comm for 'How did the Dalek get there?' stories: [info]dalekinthepond! :)

Exhibit (Something) in why fandom is so awesome.

I love Impish Girl's imagination! And huh to gormless. That explanation makes perfect sense now.

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

Love the Dalek in the pond - and the fic comm too.

Love the gormless story - my 10 year old insists that if dismantle is a word then so must mantle be, and things now get mantled rather than put together.

[elisi]

That just makes me want it even more...

[elisi]

Your chillen's make me smile with their very quick minds.
*is proud mother* Although I wish they could be a little quieter on occasion...

Also, I have to ask, OED=Oxford English Dictionary, right? How much does one cost??!?!?
Yes, OED=Oxford English Dictionary. We only have a simple one volume one (still bigger than the collected works of Shakespeare though), and that was... um, £25? Darcy bought it for himself for his birthday. Proper ones are a lot more. *goes off to check* Here is a selection on Amazon. We have the second one down.

Also, I may be begging for your help with Buffy in my GP fic. She is being annoyingly non-Buffy like. I need your expertise.
Flattery will probably get you far! By when would you need it?

[adoxerella.livejournal.com]

Proper ones are a lot more.
I boggled at the 20 volume one until I remembered how peeved I get when I can't find a word in mine. I just have the wienie little paperback, although you will enjoy the fact I went out of my way to find and Oxford English Dictionary instead of an Oxford Dictionary of American English. My tiny Latin to English Dictionary I keep for HP fic is Oxford too. I am such a dictionary snob.

Flattery will probably get you far! By when would you need it?
Hey I'd offer to bake or knit if I could afford to ship it to you. ;-P I need to actually grit my teeth and write it down. Right now Conner and George are being stubborn and Buffy is stuck blinking at them a lot.

[powerofthebook.livejournal.com]

Impish girl may have something there with the sonic lipstick...I like the way lipstick looks, but not how it feels on my lips...tell her to run and patent it!

[elisi]

Exhibit (Something) in why fandom is so awesome.
There ought to be a list.

I love Impish Girl's imagination!
It really is brilliant. Although I wonder why I bother buying her toys - or rather, why she thinks she needs them...

And huh to gormless. That explanation makes perfect sense now.
That was my reaction too. I love words. :)

[elisi]

Love the Dalek in the pond - and the fic comm too.
The children thought it was brilliant too! I love it when RL is weird.

things now get mantled rather than put together.
Fantastic!

[elisi]

Heee! Although I have a feeling that the actual 'lipstick' function is the one she's least concerned about... ;)

ETA: Not sure how familiar you are with the Who-niverse, but Sarah Jane has a sonic lipstick (given to her by the Doctor), and this was what Impish Girl was copying.

[elisi]

I boggled at the 20 volume one until I remembered how peeved I get when I can't find a word in mine.
English has an ASTONISHING number of words.

I am such a dictionary snob.
Quite right too!

I need to actually grit my teeth and write it down. Right now Conner and George are being stubborn and Buffy is stuck blinking at them a lot.
Hee. Let me know when you have something for me to look at! :)

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

I just saw that Dalek-in-the-pond story on IO9.com-- why am I not surprised at a new com? ::loves fandom::

Pretend sonic lipstick, that's also an invisible pen and laser. I love how her little mind works!

[elisi]

why am I not surprised at a new com? ::loves fandom::
I swear it was created *seconds* after the story broke...

I love how her little mind works!
Me too! :)