Elephants and Space Needles

Last night, I was babysitting and the kids were watching Babar on Netflix. If you're not familiar with Babar, Babar is a Cartoon Elephant King who lives in a universe that consists of about 500 elephants, about 10 rhinos, and one Old Lady. I think what happened is that humans started going extinct, so the Old Lady is the last human on Earth, and elephants and rhinos started evolving in their intelligence and took over the world. That, or people thought they found a cure for cancer and tested it on elephants, and it made the elephants a billion times more intelligent, so they thought they'd try it on humans, except for it killed off all the humans except for the Old Lady who's immune to the serum's adverse effects, so it's a bit like Planet of the Apes only with elephants. AWESOME.

When I got home, Thomas and Isaac were playing Halo. Maisie was watching.

Maisie: What're all those things sticking out of your gun?

Thomas: Those are needles. 

Maisie: No they're not. Those are big thick pointy things; needles are skinnier. You can't sew with those. 

Isaac: That's what aliens use to sew. 

Maisie: Oh. So they just stuck a bunch in the guns?

Thomas: Yeah. 

a bit later, Maisie went to bed and Isaac stopped playing and we just watched Thomas build some kind of floating tunnel with a bunch of pipes that went around in a circle.

Me: That's the most pointless structure I've ever seen.

Isaac: Your face is the most pointless structure I've ever seen.

Thomas: OHHHHHHHHHHH!