{"id":20,"date":"2008-07-27T02:13:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T02:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.oscarc.net\/?p=20"},"modified":"2018-01-28T06:39:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T06:39:11","slug":"why-babies-are-better-than-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oscarc.net\/index.php\/2008\/07\/27\/why-babies-are-better-than-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Why babies are better than cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny\r\nSubject: Re: Cat owners will agree...\r\nFrom: ianb@netcom.com (Ian Barkley-Yeung)\r\nDate: Thu, 30 Mar 95 4:30:03 EST<\/pre>\n<p>Kittens, better than babies? Hah! Here now are the top <strong>eleven<\/strong> reasons why babies are better than kittens (and, as any five-year-old will tell you, more reasons makes my list better. Nyah! Nyah! Nyah!)<\/p>\n<p>11) Babies are rarely known to shed on furniture.<\/p>\n<p>10) No one&#8217;s allergic to a baby.<\/p>\n<p>9) Having a kitten in the car doesn&#8217;t let you drive in the carpool lane.<\/p>\n<p>8) An exercise program you can really stick with&#8230; that you <strong>have<\/strong> to stick with, whether you like it or not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>7) With a kitten, you don&#8217;t get to watch otherwise normal adults making silly faces, jumping up and down, talking nonsense in a high pitched voice, and generally making fools of themselves. Hours of fun!<\/p>\n<p>6) For an initial investment of a camera and few pieces of film, you can convince baby&#8217;s grandparents to buy the kid all the cute but expensive clothes, toys, furniture, and major appliances s\/he will ever need &#8212; a good photographer can buy nothing but diapers for a year. Cats never buy their grandkittens anything.<\/p>\n<p>5) Babies don&#8217;t have fleas. Babies don&#8217;t give <strong>you<\/strong> fleas.<\/p>\n<p>4) Free pregnancy\/labor horror story with each baby. Commensurate with other mothers! Scare newly-pregnant friends! Get your husband to do twice the housework for months!<\/p>\n<p>3) Two words: Tax deduction<\/p>\n<p>2) Childbirth &#8212; the greatest crash diet ever! Lose 20 pounds in one day &#8212; and keep it off, too!<\/p>\n<p>And the number one reason babies are better than kittens:<\/p>\n<p>1) Kittens never grow up to look at you and say &#8220;I love you, Daddy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>[original to me]<\/p>\n<p>-Ian Barkley-Yeung<br \/>\nProud Parent of Stephen Skyler Barkley-Yeung &#8212; cutest baby in history!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: Re: Cat owners will agree&#8230; From: ianb@netcom.com (Ian Barkley-Yeung) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 4:30:03 EST Kittens, better than babies? Hah! 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