Hooray for Binkies!

Binky Patrol (Weird Earl’s Oct. 7)

OK, so these people have a simplistic solution to the woes of the world - but are they wrong?

Personally, my binky is red and very soft, and there’s nothing so nice as snuggling up by the fire with a book and my binky on a cold and rainy winter’s evening.

Go Binky Patrol!

it is a cool idea.

i think of the films i see of people who are in night clothes at 2 am watching their home burn. a binky would be perfect!

so many situations… so few binkys.

My very own mother makes binkys with her ladies’ group at church. I think it’s a nice thing. Sure, she’s not saving the world, but some scared kid will have a pretty, warm blanket to hug on a lousy night. I know I’d appreciate it, and I’m not even a kid.

Weird. <looks at pictures> Oh. Those are quilts(and a couple look like afgans and comforters, I guess). Does “binky” just mean a baby’s pacifier to anyone else? I guess those would be even stranger to be handing out to people…

“Binky” means pacifier to me, too. Although it comes out “gink” when the two-year-old says it. Here I was imagining Rutabegger sucking on a pacifier, and I was thinking, well, whatever gets you through, you know?

Blankie. Now blankie I would have understood.