For the last few months,
Asher has been using "my throat hurts" to mean anything on his body hurts. It could be he stubbed his toe, has a stomach ache, or even a poked eye. It has NEVER meant that his actual throat hurt. So a short while ago I said something to the effect of, "He just needs to have a sore throat once so that he can understand what part of his body it actually is." The problem is that I didn't really mean it, but sure enough he has come down with
strep throat.
So, to test my potential gift of issuing curses, I am trying the following: "The makers of Teletubbies just need to be forced to watch their own show for a few hours so that they will understand the error of their ways."
With any luck, the show will be virtually eliminated within a few weeks.

(Disclaimer - my kids have never really watched Teletubbies, but I personally am creeped out by that baby in the sun. It's just scary!)