Bear: Crocodiles are the only living dinosaur.

Bacon: Are they really dinosaurs?

Me: Not quite. But the ancestors of crocodiles lived in the age of the dinosaurs.

Bacon: Oh. But they weren't dragons.

Me: No, definitely not dragons.

Bear: Dragons have poison spit.

Me: I thought they had fiery breath.

Bear: No, Daddy. Those are the story ones. The real ones have poison spit.

Bacon: Yeah. The Komoko dragons.

Me: Oh, right. The saliva of the Komodo dragons have virulent bacteria.

Bear: And if they bite you, you'll be dead in a day.

Bacon: And you have to be careful because they'll spit on you with their poison spit.

Me: Komodo dragons don't really spit. They just have saliva that's very poisonous.

Bear: Yeah, they don't spit poison spit.

Bacon: Oh.

Bear: You're probably thinking of Howard Dean.

I might make politics an off topic at the dinner table.