Silly comebacks was pronounciation

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "joywitch_m_curmudgeon" 
<joym999 at a...> wrote:
> My father also likes silly comebacks, the most common being:
> 
> Other person:  I'm going to take a shower.
> Dad:  Then there'll be one missing.
> 
> Like most people with "funny" fathers, I've heard that one a few 
> million times, at least.
> 
> --Joywitch

When I was fairly small, my father was very fond of surreal ripostes 
that often led to major confusion among his children who took things 
more literally:

Me:  "Dad, what's the time?"

My Dad:  "Half past cheese"

I know...

Me:  "Dad, what kind of flowers are they?"

My dad:  "Those would be castelfrats, and those over there are 
hoozlegriggs"

I actually cheerfully named some flowers thus at school, to the 
utter mystification of my teacher.

Mind you this was a man who once drank too much with friends and 
returned late home with a placatory gift for my mother of a string 
of onions...

So you see...

June