Posted by Jim at January 20th, 2007

This Christmas my sister bought my kids CD’s. One of them was They Might Be Giants’ album Here Come the ABC’s.

As ever with They Might Be Giants, the album is surreal and silly at the same time. It also leads to amusing conversations with children.

There’s a song on the album in which they sing the alphabet all in names of countries. It lead to what follows:

Daughter:That’s not a real country.
Me: What country?
Daughter: (giggling) Surinam
Me: No that’s a real country. It’s in Africa.
Note: I was totally wrong on that one. It’s actually in Latin America.
Me: They’re all real countries.
Daughter: West Xylophone?
Me: Well, maybe not West Xylophone.