Strange Brew by John Deering for June 07, 2021

The result is “mutant.”

Gender reveal parties ought to be against the law if there is anything more powerful than a box of matches involved. With escalating fines for each added elaboration that was involved.

Of course I’m not biased: We deliberately avoided finding out the gender until the parts could be directly examined with the Mark I eyeball. For the first, I created a couple of dozen “cigars” on my lathe, made from scraps of maple, walnut, tanoak, and I whatever I had. Then I made up pink and blue “cigar bands”. After we knew — and got some rest — I wrapped the appropriate ones and handed / mailed them out. Alas, I failed to keep one for us. Ah well.

Whatever happened to just telling…

The woman, who is mortified as to where it’s gone, started this just by baking the color into the inside of the cake. How about just doing that?

Last year, a huge wildfire in So. Calif was started by a gender-reveal party with fireworks that got out of control!!

They are getting dangerous.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/23/us/gender-reveal-explosion-new-hampshire-trnd/index.html

I like how Harry and Megan did it. The baby’s was born, and they said, “It’s a girl.” Simple and effective.

…it’s a what?

Just read the thriller “The Scorpion’s Tail” by Preston and Child. Today’stoon brings to mind this novel. Wow, it was VERY good reading, lotsa cool history in it.

Wait, is gender reveal parties politically correct? Who are we to determine what gender the person will grow up to be in how they feel on the inside?

Everything is to the extreme anymore. Ridiculous

interesting what people ‘think’ is important about a baby and make so much fuss over.

So is that a boy or girl

That party was a real blast.

How can you reveal a gender until the baby is born and old enough to decide it’s gender?

Ummmm…yellow?

I can’t believe the powers that shouldn’t be haven’t outlawed such parties. After all, you might accidentally claim the growing child is a “boy” or a “girl.” (Gaaasp!)