# And the mother of the year award goes to...

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 26, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-mother-of-the-year-award-goes-to/366169 "2006-07-26T22:58:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-mother-of-the-year-award-goes-to/366169/61 "2006-07-27T15:38:29Z")

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Sounds like an Onion article.

Mmm, onions. Why does she have kids at all, if she hates having anything to do with them?

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-mother-of-the-year-award-goes-to/366169/62 "2006-07-27T16:22:17Z")

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[QUOTE=jjimm]  
I’m certain this article is not a spoof - but it is clearly exaggerating an unpopular feeling. Trolling to stimulate debate.

But being a devilled avocado for a second, to those who say she shouldn’t have become a mother - how was she to know she was going to find child rearing so tedious until she had kids?  
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If that’s the case, then why didn’t she stop after one?

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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-mother-of-the-year-award-goes-to/366169/63 "2006-07-28T08:39:59Z")

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[QUOTE=Dead Badger]  
In which **Malacandra** outs himself as a _Mail_ reader and thus loses the respect of the teeming millions. Tut.  
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Yes, but I only read it ironically. I could save myself 40p a day, I suppose, but I get it along with my lunchtime sandwich and by the time I’ve finished the sandwich I’ve also read everything of note in the paper. And that’s not saying much for the size of the sandwich. 😃

> [@Dead Badger](#):
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> A smiley might be appropriate here but it simply isn’t cricket, so you’ll have to infer any joviality you feel appropriate. Perhaps “Harmison: 13-7-19-6” will convey the mood adequately.

::does the happy dance::

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