# Booby Hatches

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/booby-hatches/129955>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [September 27, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/booby-hatches/129955 "2002-09-27T23:56:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/booby-hatches/129955/1 "2002-09-27T23:56:51Z")

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[http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mbooby.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mbooby.html)

“Mental institution”? Nah, "institution has a negative connotation. “Mental health center” is more like it.

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**Author:** ![Virtuosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/35a633/32.png) [@Virtuosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Virtuosity)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/booby-hatches/129955/2 "2002-09-28T10:58:07Z")

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more like “Mental Health RE-centering”

🙂

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**Author:** ![cdhostage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@cdhostage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cdhostage)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/booby-hatches/129955/3 "2002-09-29T00:40:36Z")

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kill the bunnies!

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/booby-hatches/129955/4 "2002-10-01T20:01:27Z")

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I just wanna thank **Dex** for mentioning my idol, [Milt Gross](http://www.bpib.com/gross.htm)!

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**Author:** ![I\_am\_Sparticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@I\_am\_Sparticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_am_Sparticus)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/booby-hatches/129955/5 "2002-10-02T00:57:39Z")

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Hey! I once played the husband in Unicorn in the Garden in high school. And the narrator had enormous boobies. She didn’t get that the joke was on her till years later. She was also a cheerleader and didn’t get “push push through the bush”. Ah, good times.

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**Author:** ![gslmtlzoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e95f7d/32.png) [@gslmtlzoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gslmtlzoe)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/booby-hatches/129955/6 "2002-10-02T02:34:03Z")

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‘Bubos’ was the term applied to the swollen lymph glands symptomatic during outbreaks of the bubonic plague–I think you’re missing somekind of link, as I see nothing connecting ale with grotesquely swollen lymph nodes…😃

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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/booby-hatches/129955/7 "2002-10-02T22:11:10Z")

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> [@](#):
>
> _originally written by James Thurber_
> 
> “Here, unicorn,” he said. “Have a lily.”
> 
> The unicorn ate it, gravely.
> 
> With a high heart, and because there was a unicorn in the garden, he went in to breakfast…
> 
> \<snip\>
> 
> “You are a Booby,” she said, “And I’m going to have you put in the Booby Hatch.”