# Get your fucking kid out of my mailbox **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 5, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-fucking-kid-out-of-my-mailbox/173178 "2003-05-05T13:55:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-fucking-kid-out-of-my-mailbox/173178/41 "2003-05-06T15:13:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zebra \* > \*\*Do you have pets? Start sending him pictures of your ‘babies’. \*\* Better yet, tell him his plan worked…one of the pets is pregnant. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-fucking-kid-out-of-my-mailbox/173178/42 "2003-05-06T15:23:56Z")
This is what I thought the thread was about: [Get your fucking kid out of my mailbox](http://members.lycos.co.uk/loveatfirstsight4/babyinmailbox.gif) ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-fucking-kid-out-of-my-mailbox/173178/43 "2003-05-06T16:00:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > Oh, and no dice on asking him to stop. I did that once and he said “it’s good luck! I have to send them until you get pregnant! ENJOY!” Given that you’ve been trying (rough estimation, may be seriously or slightly skewed) to get pregnant for at least the past eight months, which is how long he’s been sending the photos, maybe it’s _bad_ luck. Think that angle might work? “My uterus is being so bombarded with pictures of your baby that it thinks it has its own and it isn’t bothering to make any more. It whispered to me yesterday morning that if it went more than a week without seeing fifteen pictures of a baby sitting doing nothing but with a vacant stare, it might go ahead and let Sam the Sperm mate with Ellen the Egg.” Just a thought, that’s all:) ---
**Author:** ![heresiarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@heresiarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heresiarch)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-fucking-kid-out-of-my-mailbox/173178/44 "2003-05-06T18:55:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ooner \* > \*\*Is it wrong that I badly wanted that to be a real site where I could make fun of pictures of ugly babies? Damn. \*\* BWAHAHAHA! You thought that was a real site!? 😃 That’s hilarious! **Elf6c** got you! [sub]I fell for it too 😉 [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-fucking-kid-out-of-my-mailbox/173178/45 "2003-05-06T19:05:02Z")
Dooku–If your friend got that mad over something so insignificant, then they’re the one with the problem. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-fucking-kid-out-of-my-mailbox/173178/46 "2003-05-06T19:36:02Z")
I appreciate that **Indygrrl**. **Rilchiam** , you would think they would be embarrassed, but no dice. What’s ironic about this whole thing is that the moment they announced to me that they were expecting, I pulled my friend aside later and told him to please not take it personally if I didn’t gush all over their baby, since children are not my cup of tea. Which he very well knew about me, since my wife and I are not having children and we have been together 8 years now. He agreed, and even joked about it. Unfortunately the second the baby was born he forgot all about that, and what I was afraid would happen did happen. We’re still not the same as before this incident, which is a shame. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-fucking-kid-out-of-my-mailbox/173178/47 "2003-05-06T22:30:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zebra \* > \*\*I’m the youngest of six kids. Let me tell you. My oldest brother has about 5000 baby photos and slides of him while there are about 3 photos of me as a baby and one of those was taken by the hospital. \*\* _Pssst . . . jarbabyj, write “Zebra in a sweater,” “Zebra eating breakfast,” etc. on the backs of the surplus photos of the neighbour’s baby, then mail them to Zebra._ ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-fucking-kid-out-of-my-mailbox/173178/48 "2003-05-06T22:46:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by c\_goat \* > \*\*This is what I thought the thread was about: > > [Get your fucking kid out of my mailbox](http://members.lycos.co.uk/loveatfirstsight4/babyinmailbox.gif) \*\* Same here, except I was thinking it would be a rant about Anne Geddes. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-fucking-kid-out-of-my-mailbox/173178/49 "2003-05-07T00:27:32Z")
I had the same thought about it being the first child. I’m the oldest, and I kid you not, there is a photo album starting with my birth that looks like a fresh batch of pictures was added every 48 hours. (Dad was at one point a semipro photographer, which certainly exacerbated matters.) Then there is a picture of my little sister, at her birth 2 years later, captioned “And then comes Sister Luna.” The album is completely empty after that point. No wonder my sister has always had an inferiority complex. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-fucking-kid-out-of-my-mailbox/173178/50 "2003-05-07T01:06:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by heresiarch \* > \*\* > BWAHAHAHA! You thought that was a real site!? 😃 That’s hilarious! Elf6c got you! > I fell for it too 😉 \*\* I actually did a search to see if such a page exists, thinking if there isn’t one, there \* should \* be. I did find [one](http://www.nmt.edu/~erenee/uglybabies.html) but it was taken down because of myriad complaints and poorly credited images. He says the gallery will return. I can’t wait. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-fucking-kid-out-of-my-mailbox/173178/51 "2003-05-07T01:32:08Z")
Here’s a nasty thought: Tell him your pregnant. Maybe you can buy a home pregnancy kit and figure out how to generate a false positive result, or maybe you have a pregnant friend eho can use it and get a positive. Anyway, the idea is to really reinforce your pregnancy. Get him to stop sending pics. A couple of weeks later, tell him that you missed his baby pictures so much you decided to have an abortion. So you’re not pregnant anymore, and he can send pictures. The goal is to make you seem so bizarre and creepy, he will never communicate with you again. Is that too extreme a solution? My second choice would be to stab him in the cheek with a pencil. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-fucking-kid-out-of-my-mailbox/173178/52 "2003-05-07T03:36:31Z")
Choose an inanimate object in your home. A lamp, perhaps. Begin a one-for-one email campaign of photos of this object. He sends you 4 pictures of his baby, you send him 4 pictures of your lamp. Eventually he will get the hint. Plus it would be funny. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-fucking-kid-out-of-my-mailbox/173178/53 "2003-05-07T03:41:40Z")
Choose an inanimate object in your home. A lamp, perhaps. Begin a one-for-one email campaign of photos of this object. He sends you 4 pictures of his baby, you send him 4 pictures of your lamp. Eventually he will get the hint. Plus it would be funny. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-fucking-kid-out-of-my-mailbox/173178/54 "2003-05-07T10:27:30Z")
I like **Opal** ’s idea! I might even use it myself next time . . . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-fucking-kid-out-of-my-mailbox/173178.md?page=2)