BorkUncle

What can I say, BorkUncle is one of those things that tends to defy explanation. Like the words Jamey and I used to use to elaborate on “dibs”. Remember Clickitat? Anyway, BorkUncle morphed from one thing to the next, between one 3 year old mind and the other (mine), from one game to another such that you don’t know how you got where you landed but damn it feels natural at the time and it’s funny like a 5 minute tummy tickler.

Let me ‘splain, partly for a peek into “a day in the life” and partly for posterity.

The Bork:
I was singing Abby’s Alouette song about 3-4 weeks ago but I didn’t know the French words. So I filled the gap with nonsense and my imagination (lack of) quickly degenerated into nothing but Borkish ala The Swedish Chef.

Two days ago, while playing Buttercup and Wesley (running down the hall at full speed into my arms and knocking me over) Abby and I fell back on the old standby of tickle-letmego-tickleme-letmego-tickleme-letmego. Something she was saying in mid-tickle quickly got mushed together and she said ‘Bork’ instead. I laughed out loud at the ingenious application of Borkish…but then it changed again to the point where I questioned whether she was asking for mercy.

The Uncle:

Do you want me to stop?
BORK! [affirmative tone]
Okay. [I stop]
BORK!
Were you, like, crying uncle or…?
Bor….Whadyou say?
I asked if you were “crying uncle”. You know, asking me to stop?
Uncle?
Yeah, Uncle.
[pause then at the top of her lungs] Bork!…[and then]….UNCLE!

The BorkUncle:
I was cracking up. Since we had already backed down to tickleme-letmego and my laughter momentarily disengaged the tickleme part she tried to tackle me and, naturally protecting my vitals from ‘V is for Vitalslayer’, I pushed her up over my head and she flipped her legs over her own head and well, describing it just doesn’t do it justice. But because I was laughing so hard, the last words she said ‘Bork Uncle’ became the thing she said before the maneuver and, well take a look for yourself and observe the newest game for three year olds sweeping the neighborhood. Behold the BorkUncle.
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