# Hooray for Binkies!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-binkies/131256>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 7, 2002, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-binkies/131256 "2002-10-07T20:16:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Rutabegger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de0a6/32.png) [@Rutabegger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rutabegger)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2002, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-binkies/131256/1 "2002-10-07T20:16:56Z")

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[Binky Patrol (Weird Earl’s Oct. 7)](http://www.binkypatrol.org/)

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!

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**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-binkies/131256/2 "2002-10-07T23:56:39Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-binkies/131256/3 "2002-10-08T00:16:33Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-binkies/131256/4 "2002-10-08T05:02:09Z")

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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…

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**Author:** ![Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bren_Cameron_1)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-binkies/131256/5 "2002-10-08T05:40:45Z")

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“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.