{"id":323,"date":"2015-06-25T15:25:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T22:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2015-06-25T15:25:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T22:25:09","slug":"2012-ruby-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/2012-ruby-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Ruby Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2013-03-03<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2008,\u00a0shortly after she began talking, Steve and I started\u00a0capturing Ruby’s\u00a0funny quotes in a Twitter account (@areyoubewhy<\/a> if you’d like to follow it). Here are the tweets\u00a0from 2012 – all are her exact words.<\/p>\n

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Papa, how did you send email in the olden days?<\/td>\n1\/4\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
So who actually releases the Kraken?<\/td>\n1\/5\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I love getting passport photos. I try to look like I mean business, so they don’t mess with me.<\/td>\n1\/7\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I love pork belly, you know.<\/td>\n1\/13\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Flowers don’t poop.<\/td>\n1\/14\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mama, this bullet train reminds me of how fast I was skiing.<\/td>\n2\/26\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Let’s practice headbanging!<\/td>\n2\/29\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Papa! Playing lego made me feel better!<\/td>\n3\/18\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I know REAL pretend karate.<\/td>\n4\/12\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
You know what? Hot water has a flavor. Kind of a yucky flavor.<\/td>\n5\/12\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Can we look it up? [Me: Sorry, there are so many answers to that…] That is totally worth looking up! [The question: “Why do we exist?”]<\/td>\n5\/21\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I want to do so many things when I grow up. I want to be everything! Except the president.<\/td>\n5\/23\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
If I drop any corn on the table, you can eat it, but you have to give me one kernel. [Why?] It’s the corn tax!<\/td>\n5\/24\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
When I grow up I want to be an astronaut. I want to go to the moon and mars. And Jupiter. No, wait, that’s a gas giant.<\/td>\n6\/2\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I’m your pet baby hamster. So I’m very curious, and I love art.<\/td>\n6\/9\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I’m called Werewolf Scientist. That’s my lab name.<\/td>\n6\/12\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
What do you call it when your mind explodes?<\/td>\n6\/18\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
What’s your favorite thing about an octopus?<\/td>\n7\/18\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
When I grow up, I wanna be a police person… but in outer space.<\/td>\n8\/2\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
So Papa, how was your day at [air quotes] “work”?<\/td>\n9\/13\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I wish it was tomorrow. Because then I’d have new feelings!<\/td>\n9\/21\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
How much do I like V-8? One hundred percent.<\/td>\n9\/24\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Space would be a great dancing place. That’s a great idea! I should tell NASA.<\/td>\n10\/2\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I wonder, I wonder, I wonder… if you read too much, do you become the place that you’re reading?<\/td>\n10\/6\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I’m part ninja, part fish, part love, and part punching girl. The rest of me is normal.<\/td>\n10\/10\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Guess what? Gertrude is at Bebe’s house! And, Oong Goong Goong turned into Gertrude.<\/td>\n11\/1\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
When I talk to the monsters, I tell them I’ll give them peace and darkness.<\/td>\n11\/15\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Who is your second favorite person?<\/td>\n11\/29\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
This is my love sword. It gives people extra love.<\/td>\n11\/29\/2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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