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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (12248)	1/20/2004 4:44:50 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

When my sister was pregnant with her first baby we read an advice column dealing with the "issue" of what to say to a new mom or dad about a baby that is, shall we say, only as cute as a button in parental eyes.<g> The columnist suggested that an appropriate response might be to state Oh, what an interesting* baby* Of course, we got a lot of teasing mileage out of that after the baby was born.... But, we finally did assure my sis that the baby was NOT "interesting" and that her motherly eyes had not been deceived.:-) I suspect Ms. Zonder's interest in the "interesting" comment was like remarking on an ugly baby....i.e., she did not agree with the assessment and preferred the darker interpretation of events.