What's mildly amusing you today?

[Sundae]

Yesterday I looked through the pictures in a book with Tiger.
We were due to start reading it. This helps children gain an idea of the narrative and allows them to decode unfamiliar words using context.

Seeing a spider illustrated, I used our old family word of bider. Look, Tiger! Bider.
Of course we then had a discussion abour spiders and biders and what the difference was.
I did not continue the fiction, but explained that this was a word used when I was growing up as my brother could not pronounce spider correctly.
All fine, all understood.

Except today, when actually reading the book, he identified the creature in the picture as a bider. He had counted the legs and there were six. In fact two were raised ready to walk, but Tiger assumed they were antennae (without knowing the actual word) as we have looked at mini-beasts in Science this year.

That's a bider Mrs Sundae, isn't it? A bider is different to a spider. But this one is a bider.

It didn't affect his reading, and was irrelevant in the story as it was just a detail in the illustration. But Note to self: do not assume you can explain whimsical anecdotes to an autistic boy.
In general I use humour to indulge in flights of fancy, to develop his understanding of idioms. Biders were a factual-sounding step too far.

[Gravdigr]

I was checking out a Wiki article about groins. No, not yours and mine, these groins (groynes in England) are used to help control shore erosion.

However, w/my juvenile mind in, uh, ahem, high gear, so to speak, I was breaking up reading this article.

Picking and choosing phrases gives us these gems:

A groyne (groin in the United States) is a rigid hydraulic structure...

All of a groyne may be under water, in which case it is a submerged groyne.

Groynes are generally made of wood, concrete, or rock...

A groyne's length and elevation,...

Groynes that are too long or too high...

Groynes that are too short, too low, or too permeable...

Flanking may occur if a groyne does not extend far enough...

...groynes are often constructed...with a root...and a head.

Groynes can be distinguished by how they are constructed...

Groynes can be attracting,...or repelling.

Attracting groynes point downstream...

Repelling groynes point upstream...

Groynes can be built with different...shapes. Examples are straight groynes, T head, L head, hockey stick, inverted hockey stick groynes, straight groynes with pier head,...and tail groynes.

What shape is your groin? And, how permeable is it?