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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)

Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 05-01-2002 08:27 PM
Rated G Anonymous Author I work in a pharmacy and a lot of customers(men) bring in prescriptions for "viagra" to be filled. My daughter and I were in the grocery store one day and a man that comes into the pharmacy asked me out loud "when are you going to give me some viagra"? My daughter , of course heard him and asked me what that was. I did not know what to say to her and just changed the subject. She then answered to me "I know what it is"......It is medicine to make you poop!!! I said yes trying to hold back from cracking up!!! She is 10 years old and to this day, she tells all of our family members what viagra is...!!!!
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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)

Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 05-10-2002 10:15 AM
Rated PG  A Frenchwoman took her little daughter to the Louvre where they saw a statue of a nude male. "What is that?" asked the child pointing to the penis. "Nothing, nothing at all, Cherie," replied the mother. "I want one," said the child. The mother tried to focus her daughter's attention on a more suitable subject, but the little girl persisted. "I want one just like that," she kept repeating. At last the mother said, "If you are a good girl and stop thinking about it now, when you grow up, you will have one." "And if I'm bad?" asked the little one. "Then," sighed the mother, "You will have many."
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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)

Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
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posted 05-15-2002 12:49 PM
Rated G  The Cost of a Child The government recently calculated the cost of raising achild from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140.00 for a middle-income family.Talk about sticker shock. That doesn't even touch college tuition. For those with kids, that figure leads to wild fantasies about all the things we could have bought, all the places we could have traveled, all the money we could have banked if not for (insert child's name here). For others, that number might confirm the decision to remain childless. But $160,140.00 isn't so bad if you break it down. It translates into $8,896.66 a year, $741.38 a month or $171.08 a week. That's a mere $24.44 a day. Just over a dollar an hour. Still, you might think the best financial advice says don't have children if you want to be rich. It's just the opposite. There's no way to put a price tag on: Feeling a new life move for the first time and seeing the bump of a knee rippling across your skin.Having someone cry, "It's a boy!" or shout, "It's a girl!" then hearing the baby wail and knowing all that matters is it's healthy.Counting all 10 fingers and toes for the first time.Feeling the warmth of fat cheeks against your breast.Cupping an entire head in the palm of your hand.Making out da da or ma ma from all the cooing and gurgling. What do you get for your $160,140.00?Naming rights. First, middle and last. Glimpses of God every day.Giggles under the covers every night.More love than your heart can hold.Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs.Endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds and warm cookies.A hand to hold, usually covered with jam.A partner for blowing bubbles, flying kites, buildingsandcastles and skipping down the sidewalk in the pouring rain.Someone to laugh yourself silly with no matter what the boss said or how your stocks performed that day. For $160,140.00, you never have to grow up.You get to finger-paint, carve pumpkins, play hide-and-seek, catch lightning bugs and never stop believing in Santa Claus. You have an excuse to keep reading the adventures of Piglet and Pooh, watching Saturday morning cartoons, going to Disney movies and wishing on stars. You get to frame rainbows, hearts and flowers underrefrigerator magnets and collect spray-painted noodle wreaths for Christmas, hand prints set in clay for Mother's Day and cards with backward letters for Father's Day. For $160,140.00, there's no greater bang for your buck.You get to be a hero just for retrieving a Frisbee off the garage roof, taking the training wheels off the bike, removing a sliver, filling the wading pool, coaxing a wad of gum out of bangs and coaching a baseball team that never wins but always gets treated to ice cream regardless. You get a front-row seat to history to witness the firststep, first word, first date, first time behind the wheel. You get to be immortal. You get another branch added to your family tree, and if you're lucky, a long list of limbs in your obituary called grandchildren. You get an education in psychology, nursing, criminaljustice, communications and human sexuality no college can match. In the eyes of a child, you rank right up there with God. You have the power to heal a boo-boo, scare away monstersunder the bed, patch a broken heart, police a slumber party, ground them forever and love them without limits, so one day they will like you. Love without counting the cost.
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