How are male brains wired?

So this is a question that continues to intrigue me being surrounded by so many males in my life. I was listening to an audio book earlier this week that talked about that In Utero there is a fluid that goes through the womb around 13 weeks and that if the baby is female this fluid doesn't affect them but if they are male then it actually kills off a part of their brain (kind of makes me chuckle the jokes that come to mind!) and thus creates the males to be predominantly left brained and the females predominantly right brained. Now, I haven't had time to verify this information and I don't really know if its true or not but I thought it was as good an explanation as any.

I have visions of sitting around the dinner table involved in deep, meaningful conversations with my boys and handsome hubby and once in a blue moon this occurs but more often than not this is what happens...

After a blessing on the food we start eating and one of the boys (usually my second or third born) starts talking about a book that they have all read, or a joke they have all heard before or a cartoon or movie that they have all seen and one son starts quoting it. Then another son interjects and corrects the previous son making sure that the quote is verbatim. Then all the boys start talking over top of each other to have their turn to continue adding additional quotes from the "said" movie, book or joke.

I am continually amazed but the endless enjoyment that they all seem to get out of this mundane exercise and even more amazed at the accuracy with which they can quote book, movies, etc. that I too have seen with them! Often I sit there racking my brain trying to figure out what scene they are talking about. I have observed the same thing with handsome hubby and his brothers quoting childhood memories or movies they have seen together as children with mind boggling accuracy. As a result I have chalked it up to the way that the male brain is wired and I will not even attempt to compete in this arena.


This evening over steaming bowls of white bean chilli, the chosen quotes came from the movie "Hercules" that the boys find supremely hilarious or (i-larioust as S-dog says). S-dog in attempting to keep up with his older brothers tried to quote something that is said in the movie by Phil the centaur and it went something like this... "remember what Phil the red hamster said?..."  We spent several minutes trying to decode what he was referring to by "red hamster". When we realized it we all exploded in fits of laughter. I guess to a 4 year old a cartoon centaur looks a bit like a hamster...?