Whimsy

[unixronin]

I found myself thinking of the fabled Octomom this morning, and reflecting that while families were often very large in pre-industrial eras of history, primarily due to lack of birth control and high infant mortality that meant you needed to have lots of kids to be sure of being supported in your old age, no-one prior to the age of modern medicine would have dreamed of having eight children in a single pregnancy and having mother or children survive.

Prior to IVF, it was simply ... inconceivable.  ;)

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[lebo-superman.livejournal.com]

"You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." ;)

[glitch25.livejournal.com]

Beat me to it. :-)

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

*pregnant pause*

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

So you're saying part of the increased interest in recycling these days is due to increased littering?

[polaris93.livejournal.com]

GROAN

[lwj2.livejournal.com]

WAVES WHITE FLAG

[rob-thompson.livejournal.com]

Where did you get the French Battle standard?

[lwj2.livejournal.com]

Picked it up after it was dropped ;)

[rain-manpnw.livejournal.com]

Rainman's read the efforts of others and several puns die a-borning.

[lwj2.livejournal.com]

THROWS PEANUTS

[polaris93.livejournal.com]

That it was. I pity those poor children, all 14 of them, including the first 6 -- their mother is clearly several angstroms off cyan, not to mention not being the sharpest hypodermic needle in the alley, and if those babies survive in spite of their crazy mother, they can make a fine living as adults selling their memoirs, which ought to be utterly fascinating! Titles might be, The Crazy Years With Mom, Growing Up Chaotic, or just plain Somebody Please Call Child Protective Services! {shudder}

[polaris93.livejournal.com]

BTW, that's a terrible pun! (Take your bows, son . . .) [These days, I'm really great for the quadruple takes . . . about twenty minutes after I first ran into the joke. Am I senile yet?) -- Oh, and the doctor who enabled that birth ought to have been taken out and . . . well, recycled immediately afterward.

BTW, have you seen the "Octomom in a Blender" on Joecartoon.com (http://www.joecartoon.com/)?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

No, but (now) only because it won't seem to play for me.

[polaris93.livejournal.com]

I think it's working now: http://joecartoon.atom.com/cartoons/968-octomom_in_a_blender

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Finally got it to work on my Windows box. Still had to reload it three times.

[polaris93.livejournal.com]

When Bill Gates dies, he's going to Windows 95 . . .

[mrakg.livejournal.com]

I assume everyone has heard about the Octomom Breakfast Special at a diner.

14 eggs, no sausage, and everyone else picks up the tab.

[luxobscura.livejournal.com]

bass drum, tom tom

[polaris93.livejournal.com]

That's . . . infuriating, because I didn't think of it first! ROFLMAO!

[lwj2.livejournal.com]

RIMSHOT

[lebo-superman.livejournal.com]

That's what Octomom needed!

[lwj2.livejournal.com]

Now waving a thoroughly shot-up white flag.

[polaris93.livejournal.com]

BTW, off-topic, but have you read Jaron Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307269647)? Here's an example (http://polaris93.livejournal.com/2178347.html). Assuming you haven't read it yet, I think you'd like it.