This is just a quick entry... not sure how I could mangle it into a full story; it's a random odd comment by a visitor.

I have a group visit today from The Tabernacle of Our Lord Jesus Christ. (This is not going to end with anything religiously odd. This time...) The show went pretty fine, and at the end I show a little music video from a DVD hooked up to a digital projector. When I pull the lenscap off the front of the front of the projector, they can see the DVD menu for a second before I hit 'play'.

When that showed up on the dome, one kid yelled out, "OOH! Are we gonna watch XBox 360 commercials?"

Not "Are we gonna play XBox games?" or anything like that, he was just excited at the prospect of watching XBox 360 COMMERCIALS. Seemed odd.

I had a group of first graders yesterday from a camp. They were cool. I got them laughing in all the right places, and got them super, super wound up. they were all bouncy as they left. You're welcome, counselors!

Just a funny moment: I try to keep the kids interacting a little throughtout the show. It's a dark, comfy room. I do my best to keep them awake.

One of the interactions involves me asking simple questions. They can confidently answer, and feel they are part of the program, as well as feel good about knowing something useful in the show.

I was discussing Venus, and mentioning that it has a thick atmosphere. There's usually murmurs of "Ooh, does that mean we could live there...?" as I say that, so I quickly lead into a discussion of the fact that the air is not breathable at all.

So I yell to them, "We have an ingredient in our air that we need in order to breathe...?" I pause at this point in my psuedo-question because sometimes they immediately know what it is and yell it out. First graders sometimes need a tiny little bit more prodding, so I went on with the prompting, "...it starts with an 'O'...?"

A girl sitting right next to me excitedly shouted out, "OCTOPUS!"

We all laughed (including her). When I (and the rest of us) got my breath back, I asked her, "Did you just say...?"

She made a fake pouting face and said in a quiet pouty voice, "yes."

We all laughed again.