We had a The Day Jimmy's Boa Constrictor Ate the Wash moment after school. Dorothy told me, "There was a dead squirrel on the playground today." "Oh?" I asked. "How do you know it was dead?" "Because we poked it with a stick." "You poked it?!" I exclaimed. "Well, I didn't, but Clara poked it with a stick," she continued. "And then Raphael threw it."
We were doing a Highlights picture page which had some nonsense drawings, and Dorothy observed, "That's funny. The cow is holding a cowculator."
"Langston was really mean at school today," Dorothy said. "He hit people. A lot." (pause) "Langston sits at table 6." (pause) "Langston is the only person who sits at table 6."
"Dorothy," I said, "I love the dress you're wearing. When I saw that in the store, I knew I had to get it for you." "No, Mama, you're wrong," Dorothy corrected me. "The Easter Bunny brought me this dress."
We see a flock of birds on the same corner on the way to school every morning. We were joking about what the birds do all day, and whether they go to school.
"Do you think they go to music class and learn to tweet?" I asked. "Do they go to p.e. and learn to fly?"
Dorothy countered, "Actually, they do flapping jacks."
[Her grin was enormous as she realized how funny this was.] "That's the funniest thing you've said all week," I told her. Dorothy offered, "You can put it in The Sunday Funnies."