Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from
crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud
"snort" noises.) I don't know why parents don't do this more often. Usually
it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it
quiets him down. If you're a parent, acting like a rhino has another
advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won't
have his friends hanging around your house all the time.
-- P. J. O'Rourke
Ever since I was a young boy,
I've hacked the ARPA ne
From Berkeley down to Rutgers, He's on my favorite terminal,
Any access I could get, He cats C right into foo,
But ain't seen nothing like him, His disciples lead him in,
On any campus yet, And he just breaks the root,
That deaf, dumb, and blind kid, Always has full SYS-PRIV's,
Sure sends a mean packet....
Kids have *never* taken guidance from their parents. If you could
travel back in time and observe the original primate family in the
original tree, you would see the primate parents yelling at the primate
teenager for sitting around and sulking all day instead of hunting for
grubs and berries like dad primate....