Whose Line is it anyway - #3

• Our young man is in the exciting phase of exploring the world of words in both English and his mother tongue, Tamil. True to our Indian roots and to parenting in general, sometimes we couldnt help ourself shouting at our little one when his acts becoming unmanageable. Suddenly he will cut a cute face, come and embrace you. This time, he wanted to say that we should talk to him softly and not harsh. The word harsh hasnt come under his radar yet. Here he goes - "Appa, you should to me softly. You should not talk to me BIGLY".
• Qualcomm is the name of the company I work for. Our young man had noticed the Qualcomm sign board outside my office building when he sometimes accompanies him mom for dropping me off. He wanted to master the spelling. But incidentally the logo of our company has the ending two "m" entwined to resemble an electrical signal. Our guy was able to make it that there is an "m" there. so he goes, "Q-U-A-L-C-O-M-M-M-M-M-M". See here for our company logo as to why it confused our lad on the number of M's in the end.
• We went in a train ride in Yosemite. The train was pulled by a Steam Engine which greatly attracted our kid's attention with its huge black body and steam bellowing nose. Back home, my wife decided to build on the inspiration and was trying hard to find an equivalent item to demonstrate it. She was contemplating all things from pressure cooker to mimic the steaming part. To our surprise, our man came out telling we already have a steam engine at home. Only when he pointed out to the object, we realised how observant he is and how out-of-touch are we with creativity. The object is none other than - our house humidifier - shown in today's pic - shaped as the cartoon character "Thomas" the engine. And the vapor coming out of its nose exactly resembled a steam engine in motion.