# 9lb Sentient Meatball **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 30, 2005, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9lb-sentient-meatball/319228 "2005-08-30T09:59:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9lb-sentient-meatball/319228/21 "2005-08-30T17:15:02Z")
Congratulations! So, where’re the pictures, huh? Huh? ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9lb-sentient-meatball/319228/22 "2005-08-30T18:21:03Z")
Well, congrats to you and to **Nurse** as well, for entirely different reasons. One’s the result, t’others the cause! ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9lb-sentient-meatball/319228/23 "2005-08-30T18:36:27Z")
Congratulations to you, Mrs. **Meat** , and welcome to the new **Meatling**! Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9lb-sentient-meatball/319228/24 "2005-08-30T19:01:21Z")
Congratulations on your new **Meatball**! I wish you and your family all the best. The only parental advice I can give you on the care of a **Meatball** is limited, but here goes: Avoid putting him on top of any spaghetti, and most certainly avoid the kind covered in cheese. Someone is almost certain to sneeze, and then Og knows what could happen! However, many scientific texts believe that placing your **Meatball** near spaghetti or even under spaghetti is quite safe, and even occurs naturally. However, if you _do_ find your **Meatball** on top of spaghetti, despite your best efforts, no worries: doctors say, minor complications aside, ultimately, all they do is turn to mush, at which point all you need do is change his diaper and he’ll be good as new. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9lb-sentient-meatball/319228/25 "2005-08-30T19:14:22Z")
You should’ve named him [meatwad.](http://members.aol.com/xstricklyghettox/CrazyShady/meatwad.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9lb-sentient-meatball/319228/26 "2005-08-31T00:09:25Z")
Not just any ol’ Woody, she popped a nine pounder! 😃 Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9lb-sentient-meatball/319228/27 "2005-08-31T00:54:00Z")
Wonderful! Isn’t life great? - RickJay, still six weeks from meeting LittleJay ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9lb-sentient-meatball/319228/28 "2005-09-01T03:12:40Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > Were you talking to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin’ to? You talkin’ to me? Well I’m the only one here. Who do you think you’re talking to? Well, that was fun. No, actually. Only just discovered that you were a bloke, so your woody comment mystified me. Mind you, I spend much of my life in a state of mystification - not quite in the loop here, frozen out there. Off to release my sense of alienation by getting myself a Mohican… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9lb-sentient-meatball/319228.md?page=1)