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Title: Sucking Your Thumb
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UncleBob's Treehouse
URL Source: http://uncabob.blogspot.com/2011/02 ... 749966724#c4095330707912753044
Published: Jul 23, 2011
Author: Bob Wallace
Post Date: 2011-07-23 15:18:42 by Turtle
Keywords: None
Views: 401
Comments: 7
Years ago I owned a taxi. I noticed something interesting about many of the five-year-olds girls I took to and from kindergarten: many of them sucked their thumb. What surprised me about it is that every time they did, they calmed down. Some of them got very rowdy in the car. But, as soon as the thumb went in the mouth, they were calm and quiet. I remember one little girl in particular. My taxi had a bench seat, so I stretched my right arm across it. She would lay her head on my arm, turn her head so she could see me, put her thumb in her mouth, and be completely calm. Not a word out of them or any of the other thumb-suckers. I know that sucking your thumb goes back to an infant’s feeding behavior. And everyone knows about pacifiers, which today are apparently called “binkies.” I have seen adults suck their thumbs or binkies. I saw an obese woman in a motorized scooter, who had binkie in her mouth. When I mentioned it to my girlfriend, she said she had heard of adults using them to try and stop smoking. Maybe, or maybe the woman was just nuts, just as the woman I saw in an elevator sucking her thumb was nuts. In her case she was coming out of a public mental-health center. I once asked my mother if I sucked my thumb. She said no, I sucked my little finger and the ring finger on my right hand. Incidentally, I know a woman who once, when about 11, took a picture of her 12-year-old sister, asleep in bed, sucking her thumb. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of adults still do it in private. I’ve read that kissing runs back to an infant’s feeding behavior, too. Sounds about right. If you think about it, it can be considered odd for adults to press their mouths together (I wonder what aliens might think the first time they run across this behavior in humans?). Since many women babble way too much. I have an idea: all men should carry binkies. When a woman won’t shut up, just stick it in her mouth. It should even be a law. It would be a much more pleasant world.
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#1. To: Turtle (#0)
Well yeah, but some unfortunate guys simply have a bink.
Quote of the Day.
When a woman won’t shut up, just stick it in her mouth. Quote of the Day. I suppose this might be considered a double entendre.
*Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch, I invite you to compare the number of Irish, Italian, German, and Scandinavian political philosophers who have written on liberty and limited government with the number of English philosophers who published works on the subject" - Vox Day
I guess that depends on what your definition of it, is.
Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson I guess that depends on what your definition of it, is.
God, how I miss Bentmember. One of the greatest presidents in memory. All that he wanted was to get toked...how bad was that?
Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson Lord, you know it's bad when we've got Clinton nostalgia.
It is a violation of Natural Law to use this document in a manner inconsistent with its labeling. all men should carry binkies
#2. To: Turtle (#0)
When a woman won’t shut up, just stick it in her mouth.
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#3. To: X-15 (#2)
#4. To: Turtle (#3)
#5. To: Lod (#4)
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#6. To: X-15 (#5)
#7. To: Lod (#6)
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