Atomic Web G

I've been traveling most of the past three weeks, so I haven't had much time to post. I'm back in Zurich today and trying to get past the jet lag, and right now, I'm sitting on the couch with LGG as she draws a series of pictures for me. Including this one:

According to LGG, that is the Atomic Web G family going from mid-right to lower center (the other bits are the Atomic Web G family's web and a spider, for those who are keeping track).

So now you are probably asking: 'ZDG, what is an Atomic Web G?'

Two weeks ago, I was visiting my parents, sister, and nephews (LGG's cousins) back in the US. I got to spend a lot of time roughhousing with my nephews, who are great fun. They kept saying, "Do it again, Uncle ZDG!", especially when I was throwing my oldest nephew into the air so he could splash down in the pool. However, there was one thing he was not so keen on: "Uncle ZDG, please no more Atomic Wedgies of Death!"

As a responsible uncle, I would never actually give anything beyond a standard wedgie (I can't believe I'm writing "standard wedgie", but I also can't say I'm shocked that Wikipedia has a page on all this). However, my nephew doesn't know this, so he accepted my label for it.

No doubt you can see where this is going. LGG heard about the Atomic Wedgie from her cousin over Skype, and not having heard it before, she translated it herself as Atomic Web G. As you can see from the picture above, Atomic Web G is a reverse-G-shaped figure with a face and is (according to LGG) "very strong, Dada, that's why it's atomic!" And now Atomic Web G and his (her?) family regularly appear in LGG's drawings.

We think this one is much too funny to correct.

It turns out there is a term for this kind of thing: mondegreen. I'd love to hear more of these things, dear readers, so please post your favorites in the comments.

Also, if you're interested, here's a Portrait of the Atomic Web G Artist as a Young Girl:

Time to pay attention to more drawings - tonight is a saga in Animal Land involving ducks "with bill-length hair", ducks pretending to be hammerhead sharks, octopi with the correct number of legs but unusual numbers of heads, hippos eating starfish, and other oddities.