Always two there are: a master and an apprentice

Monday, Amy had a lady over to help with a bit of spring cleaning.  Dear God but our kitchen needed it.  I got home from work to find every room but the nursery holding court with impromptu gatherings of erstwhile kitchen cupboard denizens.  The squatting was only  temporary, but it made meal preparation a little challenging.

So we went to Taco Time.

I ordered, Amy sat the boys.  Tavish flirted with an entire family a couple tables over.  I brought our meal back to the table and Dex randomly handed out food in a surprisingly accurate manner.  I opened my paper wrapper to find that Declan had given me Amy's burrito. 

"I think I have yours here, Hon."

"Oh?  This one isn't mine?  But I already opened it."

"No, this one has veggies -- it's yours.  Mine just has meat and cheese."

"Oh really?  You trying to tell me you have cheese on your taco?"

"Well, I hope there's not too much cheese on my taco.  That could be unpleasant."

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Later, at home, it was my job to keep the boys occupied in the backyard while Amy continued the reassembly of our kitchen.  Dex likes to play with the sidewalk chalk; Tavish likes to gnaw on it.

"Hey Daddy!  Lookit me!"

"Whatcha doin', Dex?"

"Wanna help me draw?  Onna patio?"

"Sure thing.  [...]  Do you know what this spells?"

"What?"

"It spells 'Declan'."

"No, Daddy.  It spells 'ME'!"

Comments

[Tal]

That was DIRTY! I didn't even get it right away...heh!

[Alvis]

It took me a minute to get what Tal was talking about. Apparently I haven't kept up on my euphenisms/slang.

Anyway...a quote from that other trilogy, hm....

Episode I, Yoda talking to Mace at the end.

[Paul]

I got the reference right away. I was just confused as to who was speaking. Left me wondering exactly what else I didn't know about Simon.

[Mark]

We get one funny quote from innocence, and one after its fall (though not in that order).

I still think I'm not sure who was talking at what point, in order for that dirty play on words to make sense.

[Simon]

Tal, that's why my wife is the Master.

Alvis, your ability to extract the Star Wars references brings warm feelings to my heart.

Paul, the unknowableness of Simon is huge beyond imagining. Huge like the Death Star, but without lasers.

Mark, I'm very good at not making sense. And that moment was very improvised, so we both just said whatever came to mind.

[Moksha Gren]

I'm with every one else. I had to reread it several times to figure out who was talking. In the end it was not only dirty...but just as alarming as it originally appeared to be.

Remind me not to engage you in dinner conversation, Si.

Simon's unknowableness may be huge...but I have it on good athority that there is a small exhaust port that leads to the main reactor. So there is, at least, a new hope of knowing the seemingly unknowable Simian.

[Simon]

Moksha, I don't know if you just used "a new hope" intentionally, but I love those little references.

And I swear I can be good over dinner conversation. I'm telling you, it's my wife!

[Moksha Gren]

Well..I would have worked in some of the other titles...but they're pretty unwieldy for normal conversation. I suppose I could have tried to describe the Simian's cheesy taco lurking like some sort of phantom menace. But really...no one wants that.

And really...picking on your poor, innocent wife like that. You should be ashamed... besmirching her reputation.

[Mark]

I have a reference.

By the power of Greyskull, I have... oh, wait, wrong universe.

These aren't the droids you're looking for.

[Émilie B]

Yay! First title I could recognize. Don't know when they say it, but I definitely recognized it as a SW quote.