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Old September 18th 03, 01:43 PM
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Follow these 15 simple tests before you decide to have children.
.. .
Test 1
Women: To prepare for maternity, put on a dressing gown and stick
a beanbag
down the front. Leave it there for 9 months. After 9 months
remove 10% of
the beans.

Men: To prepare for paternity, go to local chemist, tip the
contents of your
wallet onto the counter and tell the pharmacist to help himself.
Then go to
the supermarket. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to
their head
office. Go home. Pick up the newspaper and read it for the last
time.

Test 2
Find a couple who are already parents and berate them about their
methods of
discipline, lack of patience, appallingly low tolerance levels
and how they
have allowed their children to run wild. Suggest ways in which
theymight
improve their child's sleeping habits, toilet training, table
manners and
overall behaviour. Enjoy it. It will be the last time in your
life that you
will have all the answers.

Test 3
To discover how the nights will feel . . .
1) Walk around the living room from 5pm to 10pm carrying a wet
bag weighing
approximately 4-6kg, with a radio tuned to static (or some other
obnoxious
sound) playing loudly.
2) At 10pm, put the bag down, set the alarm for midnight and go
to sleep.
3) Get up at 12pm and walk the bag around the living room until
1am
4) Set the alarm for 3am.
5) As you can't get back to sleep, get up at 2am and make a cup
of tea.
6) Go to bed at 2. 45am.
7) Get up again at 3am when the alarm goes off
8) Sing songs in the dark until 4 am.
9) Put the alarm on for 5am. Get up when it goes off
10) Make breakfast.
Keep this up for 5 years. Look cheerful.

Test 4
Dressing small children is not as easy at it seems.
1) Buy a live octopus and a string bag .
2) Attempt to put the octopus into the string bag so that none of
the arms
hang out. Time allowed for this - all morning.

Test 5
Forget the BMW and buy a practical 5-door saloon. And don't think
that you
can leave it out on the driveway spotless and shining. Family
cars don't
look like that.
1) Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove
compartment. Leave
it there.
2) Get a coin. Insert it in the cassette player.
3) Take a family size package of chocolate biscuits, mash them
into the back
seat.
4) Run a garden rake along both sides of the car. There. .
perfect!

Test 6
Get ready to go out.
1) Wait
2) Go out the front door.
3) Come in again.
4) Go out.
5) Come back in.
6) Go out again.
7) Walk down the front path/driveway.
8) Walk back up it.
9) Walk down it again.
10) Walk very slowly down the road for five minutes.
11) Stop, inspect minutely, and ask at least 6 questions about
every piece
of used chewing gum, dirty tissue, and dead insect along the way.
12) Retrace your steps.
13) Scream that you have had as much as you can stand until the
neighbours
come out and stare at you.
14) Give up and go back into the house. You are now just about
ready to try
taking a small child for a walk.

Test 7
Repeat everything you say at least 5 times.

Test 8
Go the local supermarket. Take with you the nearest thing you can
find to a
pre-school child. (A full-grown goat is excellent). If you intend
to have
more than one child, take more than one goat. Buy your weeks
groceries
without letting the goat(s) out of your sight. Pay for everything
the
goat eats or destroys. Until you can easily accomplish this, do
not even
contemplate having children.

Test 9
1) Hollow out a melon.
2) Make a small hole in the side.
3) Suspend the melon from the ceiling and swing it from side to
side
4) Now get a bowl of soggy cornflakes and attempt to spoon them
into the
swaying melon by pretending to be an airplane.
5) Continue until half the cornflakes are gone.
6) Tip the rest into your lap, making sure that a lot of it falls
on the
floor.
You are now ready to feed a 12 month old child.

Test 10
Learn the names of every character from the Fimbles, Barney,
Teletubbies and
Disney. Watch nothing else on TV for at least five years.

Test 11
Can you stand the mess children make ?
To find out, smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the
curtains.
Hide a fish behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.
Stick your fingers in the flower beds then rub them on the clean
walls.
Cover the stains with crayon.
How does that look ?

Test 12
Make a recording of Janet Street-Porter shouting "Mummy"
repeatedly.
Important: No more than a four second delay between each "Mummy
" -
occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet is
required). Play
this tape in your car, everywhere you go for the next four
years.You are now
ready to take a long trip with a toddler.

Test 13
Start talking to an adult of your choice. Have someone else
continuously tug
on your skirt hem/shirt sleeve/elbow while playing the "Mummy"
tape
made from Test 12 above. You are now ready to have a conversation
with an
adult while there is a child in the room.

Test 14
Put on your finest work attire. Pick a day on which you have an
important
meeting. Now:
1) Take a cup of cream, and put 1 cup lemon juice in it.
2) Stir.
3) Dump half of it on your nice silk shirt. Saturate a towel with
the other
half of the mixture.
4) Attempt to clean your shirt with the saturated towel.
5) Do NOT change. You have no time.
6) Go directly to work.

Test 15
Go for a drive, but first. . . .
1) Find one large tomcat and six pit bulls.
2) Borrow a child safety seat and put it in the back seat of your
car.
3) Put the pit bulls in the front seat of your car.
4) While holding something fragile or delicate, strap the cat
into the child
seat.
5) For the really adventurous. . . . Run some errands, remove and
replace
the cat at each stop.

Got this far???.... You are now ready to have kids!


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Old September 18th 03, 03:11 PM
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My side is hurting I laughed so hard!....love the Goat in the grocery
store! haha!!

~Cassie

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Old September 18th 03, 05:19 PM
Fer
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ROFLMAO !!!!!


~~~Cheers!~~~
Jenn-WAHM-DS11-DD6-TTC#3
wrote:
|| Follow these 15 simple tests before you decide to have children.
|| . .
|| Test 1
|| Women: To prepare for maternity, put on a dressing gown and stick
|| a beanbag
|| down the front. Leave it there for 9 months. After 9 months
|| remove 10% of
|| the beans.
||
|| Men: To prepare for paternity, go to local chemist, tip the
|| contents of your
|| wallet onto the counter and tell the pharmacist to help himself.
|| Then go to
|| the supermarket. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to
|| their head
|| office. Go home. Pick up the newspaper and read it for the last
|| time.
||
|| Test 2
|| Find a couple who are already parents and berate them about their
|| methods of
|| discipline, lack of patience, appallingly low tolerance levels
|| and how they
|| have allowed their children to run wild. Suggest ways in which
|| theymight
|| improve their child's sleeping habits, toilet training, table
|| manners and
|| overall behaviour. Enjoy it. It will be the last time in your
|| life that you
|| will have all the answers.
||
|| Test 3
|| To discover how the nights will feel . . .
|| 1) Walk around the living room from 5pm to 10pm carrying a wet
|| bag weighing
|| approximately 4-6kg, with a radio tuned to static (or some other
|| obnoxious
|| sound) playing loudly.
|| 2) At 10pm, put the bag down, set the alarm for midnight and go
|| to sleep.
|| 3) Get up at 12pm and walk the bag around the living room until
|| 1am
|| 4) Set the alarm for 3am.
|| 5) As you can't get back to sleep, get up at 2am and make a cup
|| of tea.
|| 6) Go to bed at 2. 45am.
|| 7) Get up again at 3am when the alarm goes off
|| 8) Sing songs in the dark until 4 am.
|| 9) Put the alarm on for 5am. Get up when it goes off
|| 10) Make breakfast.
|| Keep this up for 5 years. Look cheerful.
||
|| Test 4
|| Dressing small children is not as easy at it seems.
|| 1) Buy a live octopus and a string bag .
|| 2) Attempt to put the octopus into the string bag so that none of
|| the arms
|| hang out. Time allowed for this - all morning.
||
|| Test 5
|| Forget the BMW and buy a practical 5-door saloon. And don't think
|| that you
|| can leave it out on the driveway spotless and shining. Family
|| cars don't
|| look like that.
|| 1) Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove
|| compartment. Leave
|| it there.
|| 2) Get a coin. Insert it in the cassette player.
|| 3) Take a family size package of chocolate biscuits, mash them
|| into the back
|| seat.
|| 4) Run a garden rake along both sides of the car. There. .
|| perfect!
||
|| Test 6
|| Get ready to go out.
|| 1) Wait
|| 2) Go out the front door.
|| 3) Come in again.
|| 4) Go out.
|| 5) Come back in.
|| 6) Go out again.
|| 7) Walk down the front path/driveway.
|| 8) Walk back up it.
|| 9) Walk down it again.
|| 10) Walk very slowly down the road for five minutes.
|| 11) Stop, inspect minutely, and ask at least 6 questions about
|| every piece
|| of used chewing gum, dirty tissue, and dead insect along the way.
|| 12) Retrace your steps.
|| 13) Scream that you have had as much as you can stand until the
|| neighbours
|| come out and stare at you.
|| 14) Give up and go back into the house. You are now just about
|| ready to try
|| taking a small child for a walk.
||
|| Test 7
|| Repeat everything you say at least 5 times.
||
|| Test 8
|| Go the local supermarket. Take with you the nearest thing you can
|| find to a
|| pre-school child. (A full-grown goat is excellent). If you intend
|| to have
|| more than one child, take more than one goat. Buy your weeks
|| groceries
|| without letting the goat(s) out of your sight. Pay for everything
|| the
|| goat eats or destroys. Until you can easily accomplish this, do
|| not even
|| contemplate having children.
||
|| Test 9
|| 1) Hollow out a melon.
|| 2) Make a small hole in the side.
|| 3) Suspend the melon from the ceiling and swing it from side to
|| side
|| 4) Now get a bowl of soggy cornflakes and attempt to spoon them
|| into the
|| swaying melon by pretending to be an airplane.
|| 5) Continue until half the cornflakes are gone.
|| 6) Tip the rest into your lap, making sure that a lot of it falls
|| on the
|| floor.
|| You are now ready to feed a 12 month old child.
||
|| Test 10
|| Learn the names of every character from the Fimbles, Barney,
|| Teletubbies and
|| Disney. Watch nothing else on TV for at least five years.
||
|| Test 11
|| Can you stand the mess children make ?
|| To find out, smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the
|| curtains.
|| Hide a fish behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.
|| Stick your fingers in the flower beds then rub them on the clean
|| walls.
|| Cover the stains with crayon.
|| How does that look ?
||
|| Test 12
|| Make a recording of Janet Street-Porter shouting "Mummy"
|| repeatedly.
|| Important: No more than a four second delay between each "Mummy
|| " -
|| occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet is
|| required). Play
|| this tape in your car, everywhere you go for the next four
|| years.You are now
|| ready to take a long trip with a toddler.
||
|| Test 13
|| Start talking to an adult of your choice. Have someone else
|| continuously tug
|| on your skirt hem/shirt sleeve/elbow while playing the "Mummy"
|| tape
|| made from Test 12 above. You are now ready to have a conversation
|| with an
|| adult while there is a child in the room.
||
|| Test 14
|| Put on your finest work attire. Pick a day on which you have an
|| important
|| meeting. Now:
|| 1) Take a cup of cream, and put 1 cup lemon juice in it.
|| 2) Stir.
|| 3) Dump half of it on your nice silk shirt. Saturate a towel with
|| the other
|| half of the mixture.
|| 4) Attempt to clean your shirt with the saturated towel.
|| 5) Do NOT change. You have no time.
|| 6) Go directly to work.
||
|| Test 15
|| Go for a drive, but first. . . .
|| 1) Find one large tomcat and six pit bulls.
|| 2) Borrow a child safety seat and put it in the back seat of your
|| car.
|| 3) Put the pit bulls in the front seat of your car.
|| 4) While holding something fragile or delicate, strap the cat
|| into the child
|| seat.
|| 5) For the really adventurous. . . . Run some errands, remove and
|| replace
|| the cat at each stop.
||
|| Got this far???.... You are now ready to have kids!

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Old September 18th 03, 05:30 PM
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So true So true i hear. LOL That was funny. My wife wet her self
laughing..
Mark
EDD 11/03
"Mrs. Evil" wrote in message
...
My side is hurting I laughed so hard!....love the Goat in the grocery
store! haha!!

~Cassie



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Old September 18th 03, 08:26 PM
Linz
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On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:19:35 GMT, "Fer"
wrote:

ROFLMAO !!!!!


Thanks for reposting the whole thing again...
--
EDD 1/11/03
33 weeks
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Old September 19th 03, 01:08 AM
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"Linz" wrote in message
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On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:19:35 GMT, "Fer"
wrote:

ROFLMAO !!!!!


Thanks for reposting the whole thing again...


Why your welcome! :-)

--
EDD 1/11/03
33 weeks



 




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