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Three random snarks my dad would play with me from time to time:

• A typical response to me asking "Have you seen my shoes?" was "Well, the last time I wore them..." At one point I thought I would out clever him and ask "Yes? Yes? What did you do with them?" but he was disarmingly quick to respond with a "Well I put them right back where I found them."
• Another favorite to almost any semi-rhetorial query like "Where's my book?" was (in a certain sing-songy voice) "Ok, I'll play your silly little game, where is your book?"
• Finally, this exchange:
  Him: "Lets do a knock-knock joke!"
  Me: "Ok!"
  Him: "Great, you start!"
  Me: "Knock knock!"
  Him: "Who's there?"
  Me: "..."

I'll be playing some of these games with the kids of my friends, having already instructed my (now college aged) cousins in the fine art of video game trash talking.

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