# Infants Fly Free! Hurray! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 1, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infants-fly-free-hurray/620529 "2012-05-01T17:06:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infants-fly-free-hurray/620529/21 "2012-05-01T22:09:03Z")
Duck Season! Rabbit Season! Duck Season! Rabbit Season! Duck Season! Rabbit Season! Baby Season! ---
**Author:** ![pudytat72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@pudytat72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pudytat72)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infants-fly-free-hurray/620529/22 "2012-05-02T02:49:57Z")
Reminds me of a cartoon I saw of a newborn nursery and there was a baby flying around the room like a balloon losing it’s air. It was titled “Belly Button Slip Knot” I thought it was a Gary Larson cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infants-fly-free-hurray/620529/23 "2012-05-02T02:56:40Z")
Are any of these flying babies going to be flying and crying at the same time? Because that would upset some people. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infants-fly-free-hurray/620529/24 "2012-05-02T10:38:27Z")
Fish gotta swim. Babies gotta fly. _wink_ ---
**Author:** ![SticksAndString](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@SticksAndString](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SticksAndString)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infants-fly-free-hurray/620529/25 "2012-05-02T10:57:38Z")
> [@Lissla\_Lissar](#): > > Also, my three month olds do have pockets. Why do manufacturers put pockets on clothes for kids who can’t even move their arms on purpose? They don’t have any money, though, because so far they’re stubbornly refused to go out and get jobs. Clearly you never were around my child. From the very beginning, he was an arm waver. I remember when we were still at the hospital, a nurse was showing us the proper way to turn him into a baby burrito, with his arms tucked in. Five minutes after she’d wrapped him up, he’d wriggled his arms free and continued to do so EVERY TIME somebody wrapped him up. He didn’t mind being wrapped up..he just didn’t want his arms confined. Personally, I think it wasn’t so much that he didn’t want his arms confined but that he wanted to show off his dangler–he was born with an extra bit of flesh (the doctor called it a ‘digit’ and we usually referred to it as a finger, for simplicity’s sake) dangling from his right hand. I was a little sad we had to have it removed for safety’s sake when he was a few months old. It was kind of cool to see people lean over and go “Oh what a cute..OMG WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING ON HIS HAND?”.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infants-fly-free-hurray/620529/26 "2012-05-02T11:44:49Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > Aw cute naked babies. I wish I was a braver person, I’d let my daughter crawl around without her diaper more often. By which I mean, it would happen sometimes as opposed to not at all… Particularly during summer (but whenever it’s warm) we have Pants Off Fridays, when we can give the baby nappy off time on a towel outside, while her older sister frolics around without her big girl pants. It’s fun! And good for their bums. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infants-fly-free-hurray/620529/27 "2012-05-02T12:28:13Z")
> [@Girl\_From\_Mars](#): > > Pants Off Fridays I predict this will soon become a new Doper Tradition.™ ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infants-fly-free-hurray/620529/28 "2012-05-02T12:33:44Z")
Just remember that those cute little naked babies flying around overhead… … have not yet been toilet trained. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infants-fly-free-hurray/620529/29 "2012-05-02T12:34:18Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > A few days ago I poked my nose into the BBQ Pit for some reason I cannot remember, and was drawn immediately to this thread, the enticingly named [Infants Fly Free](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=648851). > > Imagine my disappointment when it was not, as I imagined when I clicked, about winged infants soaring overhead, free, at last, to fly as they desired. My first thought upon seeing that title was “Infants Fly Free; they fit in the catapult bucket.” > [@pudytat72](#): > > Reminds me of a cartoon I saw of a newborn nursery and there was a baby flying around the room like a balloon losing it’s air. It was titled “Belly Button Slip Knot” I thought it was a Gary Larson cartoon. He also had one with pilots sitting on top of a giant baby; “Everything checks up and is ready to go. OK, let’s get this baby off the ground.” ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infants-fly-free-hurray/620529/30 "2012-05-02T12:39:26Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Imagine my disappointment when it was not, as I imagined when I clicked, about winged infants soaring overhead, free, at last, to fly as they desired. Could have been worse - if it was a story about a teacup ride that sped up out of control… ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infants-fly-free-hurray/620529/31 "2012-05-02T13:46:22Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > He also had one with pilots sitting on top of a giant baby; “Everything checks up and is ready to go. OK, let’s get this baby off the ground.” I remember that one! It still makes me laugh to think of. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infants-fly-free-hurray/620529/32 "2012-05-02T13:48:16Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I remember that one! It still makes me laugh to think of. Me too. That’s a classic, along with “Kat Fud” and “Birds of prey know they’re cool.” ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infants-fly-free-hurray/620529/33 "2012-05-02T16:00:31Z")
> [@Girl\_From\_Mars](#): > > Particularly during summer (but whenever it’s warm) we have Pants Off Fridays. I wanna work where you work. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infants-fly-free-hurray/620529/34 "2012-05-02T16:04:04Z")
Pants off Fridays…we could pair that up with _pants on the ground_ Saturdays! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infants-fly-free-hurray/620529.md?page=1)