# Babies are cute!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babies-are-cute/294388>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 14, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babies-are-cute/294388 "2005-03-14T01:55:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babies-are-cute/294388/21 "2005-03-14T20:21:51Z")

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[Leo Blair](http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1740000/images/_1742220_leoblair300_pa.jpg)

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**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babies-are-cute/294388/22 "2005-03-14T22:17:00Z")

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> [@phouka](#):
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> When I was a mean, cruel teenaged phouka, my favorite torment to apply to my mom was to pick up any handy baby, cuddle it desperately and say in a longing tone, “Ooooooh, I want one!”
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> It was pretty funny watching her go from 0 to freak out in .5 seconds.

I like to do this to my fiance. (We’re 19, broke, and in universities hundreds of miles apart.) He looks scared and says “No!” and I add “but I could keep it in my drawer when I’m in lectures!” or “but it could live with you!”  
😃

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