Some of Radu's pearls

`Dad, do you know what I saw on Animal Planet when I was three years old?'
(indication that the imagination is kicking in and it's time for a good story)

`I only like Jurassic Park I and III. Jurassic Park II is filled with humans!'(12/26/04)

`The snake has sixty percent power to run ... faster than a monster truck.' (11/20/04)

Radu, looking at the screen saver of my Linux computer: `Is the computer sleeping now?'
Dad: `Yes.'
Radu: `Are these (that is, the funny shapes from the screen) its dreams?'
Dad: ` ?! ... Never thought of it this way :-( ' (11/16/04)

(We were talking about even and odd numbers...)
Radu: `Infinity is not even a real number.'
(Dad: `I wonder how many of my Calculus students realize this ?!') (11/12/04)

`Dad, Mom! Percy looks like a bottle of ice cold Coca-Cola!'
(October 2004; Percy is how we call our car)

`Dad, you are my hero!'
`Why is that?'
`Because sometimes you sleep with me at night.'
(his comment after hearing a discussion on Disney channel about heros, spring 2004)

`Mom, I only like medium and small fires.'
`Why don't you like big fires?'
`Because big fires hurt my feelings.'
(Dartmouth, homecoming week-end, the `big fire on the Green' experience, 10/24/03)

`Ce faci (what are you doing)?' (he's lying on the floor, sucking thumb)
`I'm doing nothing.' (8/2/03)

`Last time I was a baby I was drinking all the beer.'
(dinner time sweet memories contemplating my beer bottle, 8/1/03)

`My na~suc is curge.' (7/9/03)

`There are different kinds of females.'
(thinking at animals, but nevertheless a deep one! 7/1/03)

`I want to be coach potato watch TV!' (6/11/03)

`Coca-cola is delicious!' (said with an ecstatic tone, 6/10/03)

Dad: `Have a small sip!' (trying to make him drink milk before going to bed at night)
After the sip, Radu: `It was a medium one!' (6/9/03)

`I don't want that!' (most common arrangement of words)