January 27, 2003
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As I was driving home, my prescription on the seat beside me, I passed a sign that proclaimed "Babies'R'Us". I've passed that sign and the associated store many times before, but this time there was an extremely gravid person walking below the sign, which made me believe the sign referred to her in some special, significant way. Then my mind started to drift.
With a minor change in spelling, the message becomes "babysaurus", a small, seemingly innocent and helpless creature that somehow transforms, over time, into the evil, loud, hyperactive, mischievious "kidsaurus", a creature that has another store dedicated to its needs, using a similar misspelling: "Kids'R'Us".
Contemplating the nature of these two beasts, I soon found myself driving past an elementary school as it was letting out. The kids were reasonably well behaved. Their parents were blooming idiots.
No wonder so many of them get knocked up. They're a brainless lot. However, the only way I can see to prevent their spread is to systematically work at the reduction of the babysaurus population, on which all else depends.
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Another solution is to make sure they receive adequate education so they don't grow up to be blooming idiots.
It doesn't work.
Somewhere between the pupil stage and the adult stage they become blooming idiots, probably about the time they learn to drive or, perhaps, when they start dating. However, it is only during the adult stage that they are able to do something about the educational system and, as blooming idiots, whatever they do is what produces blooming idiots.