I’m visiting extended family for the first time in a long time, and one of my nieces has reached the impressionable age where she keeps mimicking things that she sees me do. what’s a really funny but fairly harmless thing I should teach her to do?

  • ace_garp@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The drums.

    Or a less chaotic-evil suggestion, that water-drop sound made by flicking your cheek.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago
    • Beatboxing. “Boots and cats and boots and cats”-style.
    • The pulling your thumb off trick.
    • The Macarena.
    • “The Game”. (“You just lost The Game.”)
    • Chopsticks on the piano/keyboard/toy xylophone/etc.
    • “The Name Game.”
  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Greasy, grimy gopher guts
    Mutilated monkey meat
    Dirty little birdy feet
    Floatin in snake eyeballs

    Too

    Bad

    I

    Forgot

    My

    Spoon

    But I got my straaaaaawwwwww. sluuuuurp

    • ettyblatant@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Wow!!! This is fascinating-- I was raised with

      Great big gobs of Greasy, Grimy, Gopher Guts Propagated Porcus Puts Sterilized Monkey Eyes, And me without a spoon! scoop Too Bad!

      I think my mom was crazy on second thought

      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        A good mom is always a little crazy lol.

        I’ve heard that version, and there was a version of the one I wrote out that started “great green gobs” too.

        You wanna know what’s surprising though? We were taught the song in school, by the elementary music teacher. She’d come through the district one school at a time, once a week and we’d have music class. Basic rhythm instruments (like those ridged sticks you rub together that we canned rhythm sticks, maracas, cabasas, etc) and folk songs and such.

        It was awesome. Mrs Gore was her name. Really tall blonde lady with an incredible voice that had infinite patience with kids that couldn’t sing worth a damn lol.

        I’ve never been good at rote memorization, but I remember every damn song she taught us.

        Michael row your boat ashore, Puff the magic dragon, she’ll be comin round the mountain, Mary Mack, John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith (usually pronounced Yon Yacob Yingleheimer), and a bunch more.

        Oh man, and my entire class when I was in second grade took part in a school show, where each class did a song. We did Amazing Grace, and there were tears among the parents, and not just of boredom or because we sounded like a random group of kids trying to sing lol. We wore these blue vests and pants (I think the girls could choose to wear skirts, I remember that not all did, but not any discussion about it). It was so damn fun.

  • nomad@infosec.pub
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    2 months ago

    I taught my kid to say “mom drinks beer for breakfast” as soon as she could talk. Wasn’t that popular with the family xD

    • Zoop@beehaw.org
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      2 months ago

      Lol! That reminds me of how (when AOL was thing and I was probably way too young to be on it but would use it to talk to family) my mom had me type out and send “I bought a bunch of cars and RECTUM!” via email or AIM out of nowhere to random family members with no context, even though I had no idea why that was funny, but she thought it was hilarious. Which is pretty damn funny looking back!

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Teach her to say “I was born on a pirate ship”

    Once she’s able to say it properly, tell her to open her mouth with a finger at each corner and say the phrase again. Get her to shout out out

    Then tell her to show her new trick to mom and dad.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    If you know how, teach her how to whistle real high using the fingers on top of the tongue. One way is by making an O with the thumb and the index finger, bending/rolling your tongue backwards a bit and pressing your fingers against it.

          • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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            2 months ago

            I did for like a decade. I’d still play, but I was never as good as my peers, and that shit’s expensive.

            It still took a long time to nail the exact movements down, after I made the sound accidentally a couple times. There’s no resonance to rely on the way you can for low brass, at least.

  • gac11@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I have had pretty good luck with doing

    High five Up high Down low Too slow

    My nephew would just let me do it forever, always trying to beat me on the too slow bit.