A wooden leg named Sniff

Riley loves, loves, LOVES the movie Mary Poppins. Specifically, he loves the chimney sweeps. Not only are they allowed to get into the fireplace but they in fact pew up the fireplace! (Pew, by the way, is a Rileyism, meaning something along the lines of zoom. To say the word pew correctly you must say it as if the word itself is blasting off) And if the fireplace thing wasn't enough, they dance, flip and hang upside down by their feet. Riley is sincerely impressed with these guys!

The movie has also delivered into the McClendon house a joke which Riley really appreciates the hilarity of, but which he doesn't understand one bit, which offers it's own hilarity to the adults in the household. Those of you who know the movie will remember that a key element in the plot involves a joke told by Michael Banks which goes something along the lines of The first fellow says 'I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith' and the second fellow says 'What's the name of his other leg?'. Much laughter ensues, and in the end the joke actually does one character in. But here at the McFamily house, Riley is three years old, and while he knows what a joke is, he can't deliver one properly yet, nor does he understand that Smith is a surname. So to hear Riley tell it, the whole entire joke goes "A wooden leg named Sniff!" That's it, folks!

Regardless of the lack of a buildup or the fact that it makes absolutely no sense, we all end up laughing anyway because it really is very funny.