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and a for broe

and a hi 5 plus a for her son

have a cigar!

Do we currently have an edited entry about the pain of labour and childbirth?

i knows the pain of labour, brother

and i still remember the pain in my feet when my first son was born and i had to wear those in surgeons clogs for hours

(lucky for me they were not obligatory when my other kids were born)

"i knows the pain of labour, brother"

If you'd said that here last week you'd have been moderated!

right . maybe i'd better add that i didn't mean any disrespect? i'm sure most of you know - or can guess it, anyway - but better safe than sorry, no?

i won't go into details but after seeing three children being born under less than optimal circumstances i can assure you that i have anything but disrespect for labouring women!

How wonderful, broe!!!

I'm so happy for you and sir broe. (let me know if broeboy likes older women, little ellie will need a date for the prom in about a decade and a half)

I think Parrfers was making a joke at the expense of Tony Blair and his political party Pierce, and the fact that all election talk was banned this time last week.

oh...

well...

but still...



ps: excellent joke, btw

Oh dear, a joke that needs to be carefully explained has probably missed the mark! My humble apologies.

I got it, PF!

don't worry, PF. it's not your fault that a foreigner like yours truely doesn't get all jokes right away. and since it's not my fault either i don't see any problem

it would get pretty dull around here if we only told jokes that we were sure everybody understood right away, so please get on with it.

who knows, i might even learn a little

and besides: no blood was shed and no other harm done either

(except maybe to tony's self esteem...)

I read in that Broelan's had a baby boy!

Congrats to all, and hopefully she'll be back soon & tell us all about itwell we don't wanna hear about the bad bits - just the good bits will do

for the new Mummy
for the new Dad
for the newest Hitchhiker on the block!

The good bits are that she has a beautiful baby!

Congratulations broe!!!

isn't it about time we opened a special thread for all the hitchhiker-babies?

a kind of hootoo-kindergarten?

I'm back

Well, almost, anyway. Thanks everyone for the well wishes! We're all doing great, but it's a lot harder to type with one hand than I'd anticipated .

I'm scheduled to return to work a week from Friday (about six months too soon if you ask me), so I'll be around more regularly after that and back to my old haunts.

See you all soon!

Hi there broe, and congratulations again!
Nice to see you back again.

How's the sprog?

typing with one hand? that can't be good.

oh wait, i only use five fingers myself

so i guess it's okay after all

Back to ten-fingered typing (or should that be )

How is he? The little tub weighs 12 pounds already! I've been calling him SuperChunk, which his brother thinks is quite funny.

First day back seems to be going alright. It only took me three hours to get through the 246 emails waiting for me. Surprisingly, only about 25 of them were spam.

Now I have to catch up on two months of back logs

superchunk? i like it too!

i have an average of 246 spam mails every day

Only 25 spam emails? We've been slacking off!

broe