Quips from the Natives
The Skype generation discovers General Conference. Joss to Elder Richard G. Scott: Hello? . . . Hello? . . . You talk to me? . . . Hello? Maddie: Can I has scriptures? Joss: Can I do yoga? Rob: Who would you like to meet in the afterlife? Mimi? MA: Grandpa Oscar. Rob: Madeline Kahn. Will: 'Someone broke my igneous rocks.' 'I feel your pain, man. I hate it when my igneous rocks are even touched.' * Joss: Papa, can we go to the zoo? Can we go to a schloss ? Rob, giving a lecture on social class in his turn-of-the-century Vienna writing seminar: So what are some indicators that someone is of another social stratum? crickets finally somewhere out of the back: Someone uses the word 'stratum'? Rob and MA waking up. Joss comes in Mama: Joss, why don't you go out and jump on the trampoline? Papa: That's a good idea Joss. Joss, settling in, intending to go nowhere: Hey, I love you guys! Maddie: Hold still or I'm going to give you fifty lashes! Joss: I don&