There have also been documented cases with wild chimps of females killing other female's offspring.

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Then there are gorillas. If a female has her child killed by an outsider male she will leave her current mate and mate with the killer of her child. It might sound terrible to us, but the outside male "proved" he was stronger than her mate as her mate couldn't protect the child. Persumably the murdering male will be strong enough to protect her next child.

I don't get it how taping a pacifier killed him. Someone care to explain?

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I presume it was taped over the mouth and prevented breathing. Not everyone can breath properly through their nose all the time.

Yes. I knew a pretty damn good athlete that had trouble breathing through his nose. He used to always say that if he was ever gagged he would surely die. He eventually had an operation to correct it.

...and most infants and tots that I've seen, usually have runny noses anyway.

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Haven't met a baby yet whose nose wasn't constantly clogged.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19350561/


I've got to wonder when that sounded like a good idea...

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Smaller hands can reach into the incision more easily? heh. or perhaps bill's filimg a new show, "Kids biopsy the darndest things".

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The family that cuts together, goes nuts together.

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It's one thing to be cute with kids, but I would consider sticking a kid with this to be child neglect.
N.Z. Couple Can't Name Their Son '4real'
Or maybe the thought of being named like a license plate is a sign of possible things to happen the way he will grow up.

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From the article:
Yeah, it means your parents were idiots.

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Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Same reason as the giant pig shooting discussed in another thread.

"Let's get our kid in the Guinness book of records, then we'll make money on him."

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No kidding.

Now, I do have a list of more unusual names that I want to give my prospective kids, but I wouldn't do that to them. Nor would I give them an oddly-spelled name in the hopes that using a "y" instead on an "i" will make them interesting. And, of course, the name that was my first choice for a girl's name--Rowan--is right out now, because Graham's last name is "Berry."

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

That's up there with naming a kid Nosmo King.

I wonder when we'll start getting kids named for Net/Text-messaging abbreviations...
"Lol Smith, I'd like you to meet Rotfl Jones and her sister Imho. I think you girls have something in common. I bet you'll all become BFFs".

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Hehe.

Variations on existing names are fine by me, so long as they're actually variants on normal names that in conversation won't have peoples' eyes crossing, its all good.

My neice's name was Tarra. When she slipped into the Terrible Twos, she was thusly anointed "Tarra the Terror".

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I guess "Straw", "Razz", and "Blue" are by the boards too.

Let's just hope your kid doesn't join the Amish and grow up to be an Elder!

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"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

What a goose!

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Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

I felt bad for the baby. And for the mom, yes she made a fatal mistake not thinking that taping the pacifier on the face of the baby can lead to death.
Thinking of how the mom was raised by her mom, in this incident, I think she's a good mother , just "dumb" because it looks like she didn't intentionally wanted to kill her baby , she just taped the pacifier bec it always drops from the mouth of her child.

We cannot control people having babies , its part of our life cycle. But maybe we cantrol teenage pregnancies, or unwanted pregnancies , which sometimes gives results to physical abuse by the parent to the child, beatings and such.


Just my comment.