Anything you can do...
So one of the detergent companies ... I think it's Tide ... has recycled an Irving Berlin tune for one of its new ad campaigns, comparing itself to Oxy Clean. The song is from "Annie Get Your Gun," it's called "Anything you can do I can do better."
Well, the tune features two alternating voices -- one's a soprano, the other's a baritone, singing "Anything you can do I can do better, I can do anything better than you" "No you can't" "Yes I can," etc.
James LOVES this. For an almost-three year old, he's got a really good sense of the absurd, and a wicked sense of humor. So every time this ad comes on, I noticed that James watches it with rapt attention.
The other morning I come down stairs, and I hear little voices. Emme and James specifically, and I can't quite make out what they're saying. As I get to the bottom of the stairs, I hear James shouting, in his deepest voice, "NO YOU CAAAAAN'T." He had the inflection and the tone perfect.
He's gonna grow up to do stand up comedy or something, I swear.