Monday, October 15, 2007

Parenting Tip #319

If you're in a situation where you need to identify a Pokemon, and you cannot do so because my god there are millions of them and you can't possibly remember any more than maybe three, just use the name of a popular prescription drug.

(it's bedtime)
KATE: I need to find out which POKEMON THIS IS! I'm going to go ask Charlie.
JILL: No, Kate, Charlie's almost asleep, don't go wake him up.
KATE: But I NEED TO KNOW!
JILL: You need to get some sleep, Kate.
ME: (walking in) What's the problem?
KATE: I NEED TO KNOW WHAT POKEMON THIS IS AND MOM WON'T LET ME ASK CHA--
ME: I can help you. Which one are you wondering about?
KATE: this one.
ME: Oh, that's Lipitor.
KATE: Lipitor! Okay! Thanks Dad!

Future emergency Pokemon names include Zoloft, Levitra, and Xanax.

2 comments:

scouter573 said...

That's great - but which one evolves to be Aspartame? And does pseudoephedrine hydrochloride evolve to become Sudafed or Claritan?

Scott Chicken said...

Much better than our old Pokemon naming convention of describing them by what they do...luckily Logan wasn't in to the whole Pokemon thing so he never complained that he was teased for calling them "Squirty" and "Firey".