This story made me so angry yesterday.

Here's a border guard taking pity on the guy at Christmas to do the right thing, make a judgement call and let him pass and what does he do?

He shoots his mouth off to the world because getting his face on the internet is more important than protecting the guy who did him a favour from getting into trouble/losing his job.

I hope that next time they 'find' crack in his beard and terrorist pornography on his ipad and ship him off to Guantanamo.

I think it's a Santa Lie.

All well and harmless. The little girl gets to have a nice experience and is excited about the ewoks that hid in the bushes and one day when she's older, she'll work it out or have it explained and it will be a nice thing to have happened.

....until you can't help yourself and TELL THE INTERNET.

Next thing you know it's the talk of your town, parents are talking about it in front of their children, then your daughter finds out from someone else that daddy's being playing tricks on her.

I think the internet and the Star Wars nostalgia will still be around in a couple of years. I'd have waited.

My guess is also that it was deliberate. It's a cartoony graphical representation and in children's cartoons playing with pronunciation and grammar is a common word game because most of the characters are meant to be stupid in the eyes of children.

Did her parents take her to Toys R Us next?

It's hard to push past the reflex 'it would be a shame...' but I think that there is much more to this. You can point at the rare occasions where a keyboard device isn't available (desert island, kidnapped etc) as a ridiculous investment of time but the dexterity and hand/eye coordination learned in writing also lends itself to other skills. I'm convinced that a 23 year old with no handwriting skills would find a career in surgery more difficult and there are many other careeers involving similar tools.

What worries me more is the linear thought involved in typing. The mind-Map camp will tell you that it's a very constricted way of creating prose and not efficient for note-taking and in a more informal way, handwriting can be quick, messy, scrappy, open to speedy revision while keeping disguarded ideas and can blend into drawing in terms of exploring rough ideas. I'm sure that a lot of the best well organised tightly written fiction and non-fiction started off as a sprawling hand-written mess that couldn't have got there any other way.