Monday 25 April 2016

Another Groverism

I love Facebook's On This Day feature, since I get to relive all the cute things my kid said. Here's an antonymous one that didn't make it into the last list. She was 3.

Grover: Why did M's mummy say that [M had to do something]?
Me: Because mummies know what's good.
Grover: And childrens know what's bad.

the opposite of spoiled

Another one where a seemingly periphrastic 'the opposite of...' communicates more than saying the opposite would:


Do you have a word for the opposite of spoiled?

Saturday 23 April 2016

Are control and ecstasy opposites?

"Normally we think of control and ecstasy as opposites, but in Prince, they were just the two ends of the same breath — inhale, exhale. We need both to live."