Phil the orator: recent excerpts (updated Jan. 16)
January 4, 2012“Are clone troopers on [Santa’s] naughty list?”
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Phil: “Look, Dad, you forgot your phone in the car. I got it just in time.”
Me: “Phil to the rescue!”
Phil: “I’m not a hero, Dad.”
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Me, reading from the Judith Viorst book: “It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.”
Phil: “Why doesn’t he [just] say it was a bad day?”
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“When I get peas at school I pretend that the peas are army guys and the [pod] on the outside is the plane and when it comes close to crashing the guys jump out.”
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Me: “It’s bad to throw snowballs made out of ice.”
Phil: “Why?”
Me: “Well, if you hit someone in the right place, it could really hurt.”
Phil: “Don’t you mean, if you hit someone in the WRONG place?”
Me: “Right.”
My Track Record 
“Phil: ‘Why doesn’t he [just] say it was a bad day?'”
please do not let phil ever read my blog.