IF YOU ARE OR HAVE BEEN PARENTS THEN YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THESE.

If you are planning or considering becoming a parent they you should think about it.

Here are a sampling of helpful questions and answers regarding

the miracle of childbirth.

Q. Should I have a baby after 35?

no 35 children is plenty.

Q. I'm two months pregnan. When will my baby move?

With any luck, right after college.

Q. What is the most reliable method to determine a baby's sex?

Childbirth

Q. My wife is 5 months pregnant and so moody she is borderline irrational.

So What's the question?

Q. The childbirth instructor says it is not pain you feel during labour,

but pressure. Is she correct?

Yes, in the same way a tornado can be called an air current.

Q. When is the best time to get an epidural?

Right after you find out you are pregnant.

Q. Is there any reason I have to be in the delivery room while my

wife is in labour?

Not unless the word 'alimony' means something to you.

Q. Is there anything I should avoid while recovering from childbirth?

Yes, pregnancy.

Q. Do I have to have a baby shower?

Not if you change the baby's diaper very quickly

Q. our baby was born last week. When will my wife begin to feel and

act normal again.

When the kids are in college.

my mom called from the hospital and I could tell by her voice that something

was desperately wrong!

Was one of my sisters in a car wreck - did the house burn down -

who got divorced or lot their job.

it was even worse than that:twisted:

Her Kindle died :cry:

she said if you call right now you can get me a new one tomorrow.

Don't laugh when I told them my mother was in hospital and

she was lost without her Kindle they sent a replacement by one day UPS.

this is, by the way the second time they have sent a replacement.

many kindles have been replaced and most I know of personally is 7.

despite an even worse record than xbox or PS3 they will continue to

replace them free of charge so people keep coming back.

not certain but I believe amazon prime is a huge advantage. it is like

having a warranty that doesn't expire until you drop the prime account.

MS and Sony take a lesson.

everyone who has gotten thereselves a free kindle from the amazon prime

has become a fan and has given them some free advertising.

also has been helping the advance of casual gaming and

we see more things like WWF, Bejeweled, Angry Birds, etc.

Android games are starting to have a huge impact.

The American political satirist Jon Stewart has appeared as a guest on Egypt's top

satirical TV show, which is modelled after his own programme "The Daily Show."

Stewart was brought onto the set of El Bernameg (The Programme) wearing a

black hood and introduced by presenter Bassem Youssef as a captured foreign spy.

Youssef, one of Egypt's most popular TV presenters, has been questioned by

prosecutors on accusations of blasphemy and insulting the president.

A trained heart surgeon, Youssef catapulted to fame when his video blogs

mocking politics received hundreds of thousands of hits shortly after the 2011

uprising that toppled former leader Hosni Mubarak.

photo and story from BBC 22 June 2013

It looks like he had as much fun as he usually does on his own show.

I joined Gamespot on June 16 2004.

in Instand ReKall of admins.

that was about the same time Bethany Massimilla started here.

Remeber those days? the glory days of Gamespot when

BethanyM was the community manager and CJayC was at GameFAQs!

when the boards merged she had admin powers on both sides

which were rarly used since she really was a link between the moderators

and CJayC but she was a more prolific poster and seen as an invader from

GS so when a popular GFAQer got banned for flaming Beth got blamed and

even after she was soley the Gamespot admin and CJayC posted that the

rumor was false and she never banned or evern modded GameFAQers they

always blamed and feared her.

Bethany was held in lower esteem at GameFAQs than the community here

has ever held any of our moderators, any of them you can name!

There was even a Make a BethanyM Mask day held in GF!

we liked and respected her in Gamespot even more probably because of the

way the GameFAQers disrespected our admint.

Jody came along to give her some assistance...then ........

Sophia....and ......

and so it goes......now we only wonder how long Syn will say with us!!!

I am back and may be preoccupied for a little while.

family issues.

I'm not going to whine about the problems.

They are not permanent, just annoying

I will be leaving.

for the weekend, gone from Thurday thourh Saturday for Father's Day.

eh, don't get your hopes up GSers......

like a Brad...I mean bad penny ...I'll be back.

hell Brad Penny just flopped in a bid to pitch with the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks :o

I remember when he pitched for the Dodgers I was making

Jake and the Fatman Joe Penny jokes when started to mess up so bad.

**I know what many guys would have said but mess up says it just as well""

it takes a little extra effort to use the curse words and you don't know

who you are going to offend. I am aware that many and maybe most

people don't care but I also realize that a few of my friends are offended

by such language and it does not take any effort to avoid using it.

with a dash of research one finds that the esteemed Reg Smyth was himself

a northerner and made Andy Capp from his own home town of Hartlepool.

So when Andy boarded a bus for the United supporters ....it was for the

Hartlepool Football Club.

I had assumbed Man U because for the last few seasons whenever you hear

United it is always Man U they are screaming about.

It does get tiring for those of us who are long time fans of other clubs.

(ask if I'm sorry to see the last of Sir Alex/Alec bad tempered cry baby) :P

and further more in "The Cigarette Book The History and Culture of Smoking"

leading off the chapter on Wills Woodbine is the following quotation:

"The history of Woodbines has glided over the last 120 years from the sylvan

glades to the rather glummer world of Andy Capp."

I remember decimalization and I could not believe it when I heard an Englishman

refer to 5 bob as the equivalent of 5 pence.

He does not remember what "real" money was and/or didn't bother to equat

it to the modern equivalent.

a bob was a quarter of a pound - a half crown - 10 shillings - 60 pence.

I stand corrected a bob was a shilling or 1/20 of a pound I feel embarrassed.

it is very simple and also a beautiful tradition I wish that had never been changed.

why the rush to decimalization?

this happened about the time I graduated high school and I still have a nice

stock of farthings, halfpenny, penny, tuppence, sixpence, halfcrown, crown, shilling.

I do not have a groat though:P

I was reading my Andy Capp books. I have 6 of them with publish dates from

1965 through 1986 and I've wondered about one thing.

found a seventh Andy Capp book . from the late 60s, early 70s.

in a 1975 cartoon I notice him getting on a United Supporters bus so I reckon

the writer was a fan of Man U before they became the big deal they are now.

and he always has a cigarrette dangling from the corner of his mouth.

is it a Park Drive or a Willie Woodbine?

since he reminds me of Onslow from Keeping Up Appearances in many ways

I'm going to guess at Woodbine the smoke of the common man.

about 1980 I spent 60 USD for a set of darts which at the time was around £110.

I was making good money then.

the inflation calculator said $60 / 1980 is worth 170 today.

and $60 2013 dollars would be 21 dollars in 1980.

in 1980 the pound was almost twice the value of the dollar and

it is getting there once again.

I also got a couple of sets of Union Jack flights..

my partner in the darts league was in the RAF - we met at work because I was

assigned to them

and one of the few Yanks who could play a decent game of darts and the only

one who knew Snooker.

I see people complaining about their work and some times their first jobs

fairly often on the forums here so I thought I would share my first work experience.

just to show that what you are doing might not be so very awful.:wink:

my first 'real job' was at a worm farm

when you buy a tub of worms for fishing remember someone picked them out

of the horse or cow manure and counted out 50 to a box.

also you have to make sure not to disturb the worms who are connected by slime

they are 'mating'

Then I advanced to a chicken ranch and moved from handling horse manure to

shoveling chicken crap. what a huge promotion :)

speaking of jobs Americans are not willing to do

Did anyone else pick tomatos during the summer?

that is back breaking work and the pay is not that good but some times

there isn't much else available.

Farm work has never been a high paying job...did spend half year helping

with chores for a farmer in between real jobs...you get fed and what ever he can pay

but they don't have a lot of cash on hand. The full time hand that lived

on the place would walk to Trowbridge two weekends a month to have a few beers.

THEN I finally got a real job that paid a decent wage as a janitor.

that was my first real job.

I won't say when this all was.

Trowbridge now has about 200 people - at the time there was just one building

With the news that Ford Australia is closing shop after 85 years because they now

feel that their business is no longer sustainable.

Holden is the only producer of automobiles left, will they now be in better shape?

After all they do have a history of fantastic trucks, utes and cars.

not to mention the absolute best advert of all time.

http://youtu.be/s4Ic3RqPIJo