Dandelion Babies
Do you remember when we were kids, and we used to pick dandelions on warm summer afternoons?
Remember how we’d flick the flower off the stem with our thumb and say, “Momma had a baby and its head popped off!”
Yeah…
That was more than just a little messed up, wasn’t it?
I mean seriously, Momma had a baby and its head popped off?! This was cause for serious concern and alarm, not an excuse for some morbid botanical re-enactment. Momma must have been having a very hard time grieving this tragedy, yet there we were, callously beheading dandelions like they were medieval gypsies.
Oh well. I guess this children’s rhyme is obsolete now that the Supreme Court has banned partial birth abortion.
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April 19th, 2007 at 9:52 am
My mom’s head popped off when she had my sister. But the doctor sewed it back on.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:44 am
i don’t remember that little rhyme at all. we used to rub dandelions on each other’s chins to see if that person liked butter. but enough of that… i can’t believe you didn’t blog today about the voting off of Sanjaya!!! what were people thinking??!!!
April 19th, 2007 at 11:51 am
sorry to do that again, peter. now everyone will be commenting on Sanjaya rather than dandelions. i can hear what you’re thinking: “if he always wants to talk about something other than what i’m talking about, why doesn’t he start his own damn blog?!”
simple answer: it’s easier to use yours.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
All comments pertaining to Sanjaya will be mercilessly deleted by me.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
did Mary Tyler Moore really die? kevin’s blog said so but i don’t see it anywhere else online.
oops, sorry peter, i did it again. well, at least it wasn’t about Sanjaya.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
I also couldn’t find anything about Mary Tyler Moore. Is Kevin playing us?
I was going to comment earlier Peter that I remember that saying when I was younger. My sibling and the neighborhood kids spent many a day running around saying “Momma had a baby and it’s head popped off”. It’s amazing how far these sayings travel. Maybe it’s just a saying particular to our age group; or maybe it’s carry down from the times of Moses when all male children were killed. The world may never know.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
no news about MTM on anything I’ve seen yet, Kevin’s gotta be messing with us~
as for the Dandelions…..I remember popping the heads off and saying that AND I remember rubbing them under chins to “see if you like butter”
I won’t mention names but in regards to Tom’s apparently forbidden comment…..I just have to say halle-freakin-lujah!!! )
April 19th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
what did you say about halle berry? what’s she got to do with it?
April 19th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Stan Daniels died - he was a writer for the Mary Tyler Moore Show and co-creator and executive producer of Taxi
April 19th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
tom-you’re a geek!
April 19th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
…but a loveable geek, no? (just like poor you-know-who!)
April 19th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
oh, of course
(awww)
April 19th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
What the hell are you talking about?
April 20th, 2007 at 10:20 am
STAN!!!!
April 20th, 2007 at 11:13 am
You’re dead Stan. You died yesterday.
April 20th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
….Stan?