Stop, or the pumpkin gets it!

Thumper was sitting on a stool at the bench watching as I cut up a pumpkin. As I started cutting the skin off it, Thumper suddenly started crying. I looked up from the pumpkin and asked her "What's wrong?".
Thumper just said "No! No!" and continued to cry.
I asked her again "Why are you crying?"
She said "Hurting! hurting..."

I wondered if she had somehow hurt herself, but couldn't see how, so I resumed cutting the skin off the pumpkin and she immediately cried out "Stop hurting it!".
And then I finally realised.... "Do you think I am hurting the pumpkin?"
"Yes! Stop hurting it!" Thumper insisted.
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Uh-oh broccoli

"Oh no! I broken the handle!"
- Thumper holding a piece of broccoli, with the stalk in one hand, floret in the other.

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What goes, ninky-donk, ninky-donk, ninky-donk?

"There's the Ninky-Donk. The Ninky-Donk is walking."
- Thumper, watching In the Night Garden... and let's face it, making about as much sense as the show itself does!
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