Better peanut butter from the tub than silver polish, I guess.

I'm surpised only 100 people die annually from anaphylactic shock from peanut allergies (according to Betsy's first link)

Yes, but that doesn't take account of how many people had near-death experiences. When you're trying to control measles, you look at measles cases, not measles deaths.

Most of the anecdotal peanut stories I hear are along the lines of "and if I hadn't had my Epi-Pen I would have died". Making a kid run to the office for his epinephrine is worth avoiding in its own right.

Sonofabitch is gone.

[link]

He's being replaced by the head of the Coast Guard, who by all accounts did a great job.

I was blown away when I found out that "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" is actually about Art Garfunkel.

I'll see your "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" (which is easy, since I've never heard of it) and raise you a "Little Red Corvette."

In my defense -- Trojans weren't a popular condom brand where I grew up.

It's not much of a defense, but it's all I have.

Or, upon noticing it has been awfully quiet for a just a smidge too long, wander into the kitchen to find a not-yet-walking babt happily sitting in the cabinet, chortling with quiet glee as he consumes fistfuls of peanut butter straight from the tub.

BWAH!

Funny cause that was me yesterday.

Better peanut butter from the tub than silver polish, I guess.

Given it was very clear from early on that my nephew was going to be Danger Boy, everything clearly toxic was housed elsewhere. Well, as long as you count all my brother's flipping car parts and sockets and wires as nontoxic. But the child learned early how to work a socket wrench!

I'll see your "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" (which is easy, since I've never heard of it)

Architects may come and architects may go
And never change your point of view

all of those nights we harmonized till dawn...

Given it was very clear from early on that my nephew was going to be Danger Boy, everything clearly toxic was housed elsewhere.

See, this is reason 1,529 why I should never be a parent. I see a bottle of roach spray under the sink and think, good place for it. Near any potential roaches. Who on earth would try to eat roach spray anyway?

Apparently nearly any toddler on earth, that's who.

As for the reason they're dangerous, maybe it has to do with the fact that they contain protein? I don't know why I think that, I just do.

IIRC, it's something about the structure of the protein in peanuts.