Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site trwrba.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!suhre From: suhre@trwrba.UUCP (Maurice E. Suhre) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Dave Barry reviewed Message-ID: <1301@trwrba.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 18:40:58 EST Article-I.D.: trwrba.1301 Posted: Wed Feb 27 18:40:58 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 05:43:32 EST Organization: TRW EDS, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 42 I have thoroughly enjoyed the Dave Barry excerpts/essays which have appeared on the net. As I mentioned previously, I was attracted to and bought a paperback titled "Babies & Other Hazards of Sex" by Dave Barry. There is a subtitle "How to make a tiny person in only 9 months, with tools you probably have around the home". I found this book fairly funny, probably matching the average of the articles on the net. Here is an excerpt: When our son was about 18 months old, my wife, who has purchased every baby-improvement book ever published, got one called How to Teach Your Baby to Read. The chapter headings started out with "Can Babies Learn to Read?" and worked up to "Babies Definitely Can Learn to Read" and finally got around to "If You Don't Teach Your Baby to Read Right Now, You Are Vermin." Me, I was dubious. I thought it was better to teach out child not to pull boogers out of his nose and hand them to us as if they party favors. But my wife gave it the old college try. She did what the book said, which was to write words like DOG in big letters on pieces of cardboard, then show them to Robert and say the words out loud as if she were having a peck of fun. She did this conscientiously for a couple of weeks, and then she realized that Robert was paying no attention whatsoever, and her I.Q. was starting to drop, so she stopped. My theory is that there is a finite amount of intelligence in a family, and you're supposed to gradually transfer it to your children over a period of many years. This is why your parents started to get so stupid just at the time in your life when you were getting really smart. If you are a Dave Barry fan, I recommend this book. It was $4.95 plus tax. Enjoy. Maurice {decvax,sdcrdcf,hplabs,ucbvax}!trwrb!suhre ps The spell program does not recognize the word "boogers". I hope I got it right :-)