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From: suhre@trwrba.UUCP (Maurice E. Suhre)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Dave Barry reviewed
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Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 18:40:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 27 18:40:58 1985
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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

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ps  The spell program does not recognize the word "boogers".  I
    hope I got it right :-)