What's a nice way to tell someone that her 3 month old baby looks like a 40 year old Lighthouse keeper who shuts himself away from society because he's haunted by the accidental death of his wife?
@GroovyTasia the day after you leave town forever. By e-mail. From a burner account.
@GroovyTasia He’s the image of his grandfather.

@GroovyTasia You say "Oh, he's so beautiful!"

That's how you tell a new parent anything about their baby. Anything at all.

@GroovyTasia There's nothing wrong with that look is there?
@TheBreadmonkey @GroovyTasia That stands for Likely Owns Lighthouse, doesn't it? ;)

@scribblans @GroovyTasia

Trying to think of lighthouse related words and the very best my stupid brain could vomit out is Luminous Over Liquid, which frankly sounds disgusting and I cannot apologise enough.

@TheBreadmonkey @GroovyTasia Luminescent Ocean Lamp.

@scribblans @GroovyTasia

Beautiful.

Large Orange Lantern?

@TheBreadmonkey @GroovyTasia
Lanky Offshore Light

@scribblans @GroovyTasia

Looming Oscillating Lens

@TheBreadmonkey @GroovyTasia
I think it's time to finish this (just because I want to do something else this afternoon other than spend hours and hours thinking of another retort to that one), and also to deeply apologise to Groovy Tasia for tagging them into every post of that tortuous torrent of nonsense.
LOL.

@scribblans @GroovyTasia

You're quite right. Sorry Tasia. You probably called it at the right time aswell as I was about to go off in the direction of the Iliad and was trying to think how I could convey the lighthouse as one-eyed Polyphemus, leading Odysseus to land, but I couldn't quite make it fit so had started wondering what some of the words might be in Ancient Greek.

@TheBreadmonkey
Saving you from you, and me from me.
A good afternoon's work though. ;)
@GroovyTasia Buy the baby a yellow rain slicker, wool sweater, and corn cob pipe (with bubbles of course). It should be at least 1.17 sizes too large.

@GroovyTasia

What a cute baby. Looks just like you.

@GroovyTasia "Your baby has a very mature and serious face. I bet it will grow to bring light to a great many people."
@GroovyTasia
He has the look of an old soul.
@GroovyTasia arrange a baby sitter for them, and invite them over for movie night, and show them The Lighthouse.
@GroovyTasia Pshaw. All babies look like that.

@GroovyTasia 'Have you seen that film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'..?'

😅

@GroovyTasia he looks like churchill is the normal go to....
@GroovyTasia ask if his name is Benjamin
@GroovyTasia why on earth would you want to say this to anyone at all?
@GroovyTasia
Was it really accidental? 🤨
@GroovyTasia "Now *that's* a baby!"
@GroovyTasia anonymous postcard? This is a tricky one.
@GroovyTasia "My, what a pretty baby."
@GroovyTasia “doesn’t he look like his dad!”
@GroovyTasia "He's the spitting image of you!" directed at the most problematic mother- or father-in-law.
@GroovyTasia “what a cute baby!”