Aimée: My MIL is nuts. She sent me an email that basically said, "Joe couldn't suckle when he was born so they took an X-ray of his throat and that fixed it. His father had it, too. It's rare and the 2 doctors I asked have no idea what I'm talking about but tell your OB and your pediatrician that the magic x-ray machine fixes this thing I do not know what it's called."

amych: It explains a lot, really. The whole mutant powers thing, all of it.

The Splendiferous Sean K: Aimee, is she getting nuttier?

Aimée: Totally. Tomorrow, I'll get an email that Joe was really a girl when he was born but the magic MRI machine grew him a penis.

Cass: So is the magic MRI machine available for rental stuff?

Aimée: I'll find out. It might have clicked 3 times and gone back to Oz.

Cass: If it's only good for three times, well I have batteries that last longer.

Aimee, is she getting nuttier?

(That was me)

I might as well mention this here -- one thing that will keep babies from suckling correctly is a short tendon in the front of the tongue, which is often referred to as being tongue-tied. The correction for this is a teeny cut at the underside of the tongue, which tends to upset new parents a whole lot, and I've heard of doctors advised to take the baby out of the room to do it. It wouldn't surprise me if Joe-Mom had a pediatrician who told her he was taking Baby!Joe to "get X-rayed", made the little nick, waited a few minutes for the bleeding to stop, and brought little Suckling!Enabled!Baby!Joe back to her.

Or maybe she's just getting nuttier.

Betsy, In Bitches:

F, C, M: Eeyore, Pooh, Owl.

shrift in Natter:

My work e-mail has inexplicably stopped working.

Woo hoo!

Heather Alayne in Natter, responding to a story of a pharmacist who refused to fill a prescription for birth control pills:

It would be interesting to see what would happen if everyone engaged in this kind of occupational activism.

"I'm sorry I can't bring you another cheesecake, I believe that our bodies are our temples and cheesecake is bad for you."

"I'm a vegetarian so I won't be ringing up that filet in your cart."

"I believe SUV's are killing our environment. I refuse to sell you $50 in gas."

ita: Sometimes, if a thing comes to easily, we don't value it. If you need to block the whole board, the investment of doing it one poster at a time will be reward in and of itself.

I COMMed too early!

Aimee in Natter:

"Hi. I'm Aimee. Welcome to The Gap."

"Hi. I'm Orlando Bloom."

"Yes, I know."

"Anyway, I'd like to buy some pants."

"No."

"I'm sorry?"

"No. I can not sell you pants."

"Jeans, khakis, trousers?"

"No."

"Why?"

"I don't believe that hot guys that I lust after should ever wear pants. Expecially around me. It is against my beliefs that hot guys that I lust after wear anything that covers what God gave you and intended for me to worship."

"Okay, guess I'll have to go to Abercrombie."

"Yeah, they believe as I do. No pants."

"Can I wear a skirt?"

"Yes. As long as you wear this eyeliner."

"You yanks are nuts. Much easier in Britian."

"I know. And to think we left all those years ago."

Polter-Cow in Natter:

I need to find a Chick-Fil-A and go bang on their doors one Sunday: "Dammit! GOD WANTS ME TO HAVE LUNCH!"

Deena: Aidan is watching Elmo. Elmo may be evil, but Aidan's getting the most insane glee out of it. He screams like a girl at her first rock concert every time Elmo starts to sing his song.