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Apr 27 2009

On Butts

So I have this kid, right?  He’s a total goofball, but it’s 95% adorable.  A couple weeks ago, he declared “Miss, I’m going to be a pain in the butt this week!”  He can’t even compare to his classmates on the “pain in the butt” scale, but it’s cute to watch him try.

So today, he comes into class, and…

J:  What what in the butt.  I said what what in the butt.  What what in the butt. [Ad nauseum]

Me:  Uh, J, I’m not sure that’s a video you should be watching…

J:  What, Miss?

Me:  That video?  Not really appropriate.

J:  What video?

Me:  What what in the butt?  It’s from a YouTube video.

J:  Oh, really?  My friend was saying it earlier, and I thought it was funny!  What what in the butt!

Me:  Uh…ok.  Can we stop saying it?

J:  WAIT–Teachers are on YouTube?!?

So I may have just introduced J to a video that he did NOT need to find.  (If you, however, have not seen the video in question, it is pretty hilarious…and scandalous.)

I’m thinking that this will turn out one of three ways:  Either he goes home and searches for it and is all “EWW!!  What was Miss talking about?!?!”  OR  his mom notices and is all “What are you watching?!” and then he’s all “My teacher told me about it!!”  OR  he thinks it’s the most hilarious thing EVER and he starts singing it every day.

2 Responses

  1. A coworker introduced me to this video last summer and we still walk around going “what what?” to our VPs and such here at work. Some of them have picked it up and although we don’t add the “in the butt” part, we think it’s funny that our sr. staff don’t even know where it’s from – or that we watch it at work :)

  2. Wife Erin

    I knew you were a corrupter of youth

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