If You Were The World's Best Mechanical Engineer....

...you could answer questions about mechanical engineering until the Dew runs dry. But you might have a few questions for a six year old boy about stuff that a six year old boy might think about.

Here are the answers to your questions, World's Best Mechanical Engineer!

1. Who is your hero?
My neighbor Vic. He saved me when I fell down and went and got mom and dad. (after some pouting from his mom, he guessed his mom and dad are his heroes too.)

2. What is man's greatest accomplishment?
God. (It's that Lutheran Preschool he went to)

3. Who's your favorite cartoon character and why?
Daffy Duck & Sylvester, because they talk with lisps, like Thufferin' Thuckotash.

4. What is your idea of a perfect day?
Spending the day at my grandma and grandpa's house.

5. Are you ambidextrous?
No, I'm left handed.

6. If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
I would tell people it's bad to smoke cigarettes.

7. Do you think man will ever go to Mars?
Well...I don't think so. Well.... maybe I guess. Okay!

8. And most importantly: what is your favorite junk food?
Carmel and Doritos and Pixie Sticks.



But, sadly, not Mountain Dew.

The World's Best Mechanical Engineer had one more question for the boy, and it's this:
What's the best thing about being a six year old boy?

It's thinking about the good stuff you get to do when you're a grown up.
Oh. And playing.

Thanks for the great questions, World's Best Mechanical Engineer. You are the World's Best!

More Questions Answered...

....from, as he now calls himself, The Blogspot Buddha.

from Carter, we have: Do you draw pictures at school? Of what?

Yes. Self-portraits.

Spencer would like Mommy to hold him. NOW.
I don't know what that means.

Katie wants to know if you like to play with trains. (Some residual trauma, I think, of my confiscating a handful of toxic Thomas trains yesterday. I swear that I was trying to be as subversive and sneaky as possible, but preschoolers are maddeningly, uncannily perceptive.)
Yes. That's a short answer.



And my question is: what will be the name of your first full-length CD? And will you autograph my copy, please? Thank you.
"The Freightliners". And Yes, of course!

Your Questions Answered by the Buddha Boy

Tracey R. asks:
oh young Siddhartha, riddle me this - what is the best sport and why?

Baseball. Because you get to bat and throw and catch. You can get a bat and ball at Walgreens because they sell things nicely. The other bestest sport is football because they have lines on the grass and my favorite color is brown and white. And yellow. I like a lot of colors actually.

iRodius asks:
Joe-Henry, if you could name a baby boy anything you wanted, and nobody would say, "You can't call him that!", what name would you choose?

Alexander. It sounds like a good word. Also Sean, Andrew, Arthur*, Zephir*, Isaac, Alex**. And that's all. P.S. - Mubarik (that's his best friend at school)
* We are reading Babar right now
**For Alex Trebek

And finally, EnglishGarden asks:
My question is. why do 3 yr olds never want to nap or go to bed but as soon as you get older (like 30) thats all you want to do, sleep!!

Because they don't know that they will feel better after they take a nap, because all they do in the beginning is cry and cry and cry. When you get older all you want to do is take naps because you're lazy. And another word about 3 year olds is... Big sneeze, followed by "Mom, look at the size of this boog!", then, "just a sec, I need to go pee") always be sure for your baby to take a nap. So that is the news.

Mom, I can't wait for anybody else to ask me more questions. This is fu-unn! Even more fun than riding a bike.

Questions for the Buddha Boy

We have been blessed, oh so blessed, and I say that in a very Unitarian, not exclusionary way, to have many, many questions about how things work answered for us by THE WORLDS BEST MECHANICAL ENGINEER. There is another hysterically funny, mind-bendingly great post over at Suttonhoo, where TWBME answers another of Joe-Henry's many questions about how things work.

Mr. TWBME also left a comment that Joe-Henry might be able to answer a few questions for him. It hit me like I was wearing a gong on my head (or perhaps a mechanically engineered buzzer of the type they use on Jeopardy!). Here's my idea - Joe-Henry routinely dispenses with pearls of wisdom to me, because six year olds have this uncanny ability to not get in their own way with manners and rules and such, and their truth is absoute and uncluttered. He teaches me daily how to clean up my act and be a better human, and stop obsessing over the wrong things.

So I thought I'd start a new weekly thing here on my blog: Questions for the Six Year Old Buddha. It will deal with matters of the heart and how to be a better person and make good decisions. Any questions asked anonymously will be automatically deleted, and no sex questions please. Unless you want to get confused even further.

If anyone has any questions for the little guy, let me know, and I'll ask, and we'll post the answers on Friday.