Friday, August 13, 2010

Those pesky state names

Tonight at the dinner table we were discussing various things that were going on in our family as of late. I mentioned some of our relatives, and then Emma asked, "Who's that?" David then explained who they were and where they live.
"They live in Massachusetts." he said.
"No. They live in New Hampshire." I told him.
Emma then said, "Do they call it New Hampster because people always get new hamsters there?"
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David then tried to get her to understand that it was Hamp-SURE. "Hamp-sure." Then he said, "Shire."
I quipped, "Yeah. You know, where Frodo lives."
I don't think she got my joke. ;-)

3 comments:

Amanda said...

LOL! :D

Carrie S said...

that is hilarious! New Hampster... i guess we hear what is familiar to us. :)

Anne from New Hampster said...

Well where the heck do you guys THINK hampsters come from?! Vermont??