A few anecdotes - a Baab tale

1) While travelling the other day, the topic of conversation veered from mammals feeding their young to egg-laying animals to humans consuming eggs ...
Mom: Some people have omelettes for breakfast.
Kiddo: I know I know! They have cheerios in them, don't they?

Mom and Dad: What??!!
Kiddo: Well, you string the cheerios and ...

OK, What's The Good Word?

2) A short time later, after being bored at being quizzed, the kiddo goes: I am tired of questions.
Mom says: Let's reverse the situation and you ask me questions.
Kiddo: How many quarts in a gallon?
Mom and Dad (aka true-believers-of-the-good-old-SI-system-in-spite-of-a-combined-three-decades-in-this-land-of-the-FPS-system):
Kiddo: OK then, how many litters in one thousand gallons?
Mom (Counts fast, anxious to beat out Dad): o-n-e-t-h-o-u...
Dad (Does his best imitation of ROTFL while driving), while mentally thinking "what a language! Litters, letters, litres and liters!!"

3) After the entire family has (unwittingly or witlessly, whichever you think fits the situation) taken a bath in the Kali river rapids boat ride (Magic Kingdom), Dad stands over stroller as rest of the family is in the restroom doing as best they can to dry themselves off without change of clothes. At that moment (aka ऐनवक्तपर), another couple walks towards the restroom as drenched as the First Family (of this Blog). Now, among the park visitors, most of whom were prescient enough to have got, brought or bought ponchos, this couple stood out like a pair of sore thumbs.

Dad: Looks like we were in the same boat.
Sore thumbs: No, I don't recall seeing you in our boat!!
Dad (looks away; unfortunately, ROTFLing is not an option in the murky waters)

Who took/stole the cookie ...

... from the cookie jar?

Long long ago, more than twentyfive years to be precise, the author of this blog used to learn carnatic classical music (for three years). As the lone boy among a group of about eight girls, while waiting for all the rest of his classfellows to show up at the teacher's, he used to observe them from the sidelines, as they assigned each other numbers, and sing this song as a sort of a game.

Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
Who? Me?
Yes. You.
Couldn't be.
Then who?
Number N stole the cookie from the cookie jar.

All faces would turn to #N for the words "Who? Me?", the point being that you need to be alert when randomly picked and thrown under the bus, and immediately respond with your piece.

Anyway, why did I suddenly remember this? Today, kiddo #1 took the last cookie from the cookie jar and said "Who took the cookie from the cookie jar?" On cue, I just responded "Who? Me?" and he continued it. I was surprised that a game I had heard from girls in a then rustic Indian town (now famous as Dhoni's birthplace) is famous enough in the USA too. Turns out that kiddo learned it from his kindergarten teacher, and it is <a href="http://literacyconnections.com/LACookies.html">kinda famous</a>.

Mathematics questions ...

Without looking at the answer/comments, solve these two questions, and say how much time you took to come up with the answer!

Write an equation in slope-intercept form for a line that is parallel to the given line and passes through the given point. x=4; (-7,3)

Write an equation in slope-intercept form for a line that is perpendicular to the given line and passes through the given point. y=3; (4,-2)