# Octomom resurfaces; supposedly planning to go back on welfare **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 19, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301 "2010-09-19T16:49:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/21 "2010-09-20T00:01:29Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > Sorry, guy, no flip-out. Try again. You wrote a serious business post to respond to a one-liner joke post. That qualifies. Sorry for your humorlessness. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/22 "2010-09-20T00:04:11Z")
A serious replay to an inept joke ≠ flip-out. Sorry. Off to bed with you, Mikey, the grown-ups are having a grown-up discussion. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/23 "2010-09-20T00:08:08Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > A serious replay to an inept joke ≠ flip-out. Sorry. > > Off to bed with you, Mikey, the grown-ups are having a grown-up discussion. Ahahahahahahahahahahaha you’re terrible. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/24 "2010-09-20T00:20:19Z")
8 children was the norm long ago. Of course, that wasn’t by choice, and I am thankful for birth control. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/25 "2010-09-20T00:27:37Z")
> [@Michael\_Ellis](#): > > I’m just excited we found an example of the illusive species known as the “Welfare Queen”. I never pictured her looking like a microwaved Angelina Jolie. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/26 "2010-09-20T00:28:42Z")
> [@BigBertha](#): > > 8 children was the norm long ago. Of course, that wasn’t by choice 8 kids at once was never the norm, that is strictly the result of modern fertility treatments. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/27 "2010-09-20T00:40:49Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > > [@Michael\_Ellis](#): > > > > I’m just excited we found an example of the illusive species known as the “Welfare Queen”. > > I never pictured her looking like a microwaved Angelina Jolie. I don’t think anyone did, honestly. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/28 "2010-09-20T16:32:37Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > I’d bet money that they wind up in foster care. Personally, I think that would probably be the best outcome of this mess. Hopefully then they might have a chance of ending up with parents who aren’t crazy. But unfortunately I think instead what will happen is that she will keep custody of them and keep using them to continue to be a parasite feeding off of the rest of us. In a way it was sort of savvy of her to realize that people can’t stand the thought of children going without and knowing that was her ticket to exploit the public’s generosity. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/29 "2010-09-20T16:42:45Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > Anyone famous solely for having too many children by any rational standard should not be allowed within ten miles of a television camera. Totally agreed. How about, “We’ll leave you two children, and put the rest up for adoption, because there are too many people in the world already and you idiots aren’t helping. We’ll let you choose which two you keep.” > [@Chimera](#): > > God willing, this TV fad shall also pass into the night, and some years from now we’ll be grateful that these shows are no longer on the air. Unfortunately, I don’t see this happening. Reality tv is far too cheap to produce. What is more likely is 16 years from now, we’ll have shows like, “I Was an Octo-Mom Baby!” ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/30 "2010-09-20T16:51:26Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Unfortunately, I don’t see this happening. Reality tv is far too cheap to produce. What is more likely is 16 years from now, we’ll have shows like, “I Was an Octo-Mom Baby!” If this show ever happens, I am so blaming you **CW** for even bringing it up. That was enough to make me gag a little. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/31 "2010-09-20T17:07:08Z")
Crap, I should have posted in a blog instead of here - now the Straight Dope will get my copyright money. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/32 "2010-09-20T17:30:05Z")
I’m eagerly awaiting Jinger Duggar’s tell all book. At the very least I hope she gets to read this message board: > **[Free Jinger](https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/freejinger/)** > > A discussion board nominally related to our collective obsession with the Duggar specials on the Discovery Channel that has evol At least one of the Duggars must rebel and turn into a nice normal human being who doesn’t confuse her uterus with a clown car, doesn’t promote ultra religious insanity and doesn’t believe that her children exist to serve as extra parents. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/33 "2010-09-20T23:09:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Totally agreed. How about, “We’ll leave you two children, and put the rest up for adoption, because there are too many people in the world already and you idiots aren’t helping. We’ll let you choose which two you keep.” “Oh, and since you’ve already contributed enough genetic material to the race…you’re getting a tubal/vasectomy on Thursday. Don’t eat or drink anything after 10 PM on Wednesday.” ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/34 "2010-09-20T23:48:02Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > I’m eagerly awaiting Jinger Duggar’s tell all book. At the very least I hope she gets to read this message board: > > [http://freejinger.yuku.com/](http://freejinger.yuku.com/) > > At least one of the Duggars must rebel and turn into a nice normal human being who doesn’t confuse her uterus with a clown car, doesn’t promote ultra religious insanity and doesn’t believe that her children exist to serve as extra parents. She can write? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/35 "2010-09-21T00:00:48Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Totally agreed. How about, “We’ll leave you two children, and put the rest up for adoption, because there are too many people in the world already and you idiots aren’t helping. We’ll let you choose which two you keep.” > > “Oh, and since you’ve already contributed enough genetic material to the race…you’re getting a tubal/vasectomy on Thursday. Don’t eat or drink anything after 10 PM on Wednesday.” Good plan. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/36 "2010-09-21T00:28:38Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > …Anyone famous solely for having too many children by any rational standard should not be allowed within ten miles of a television camera. I say let them have a shot at pay per view. The oddball voyeurs can pay for the privilege of gawking, and the rest of us are safe. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/37 "2010-09-21T00:47:48Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > > [@BigBertha](#): > > > > 8 children was the norm long ago. Of course, that wasn’t by choice > > 8 kids at once was never the norm, that is strictly the result of modern fertility treatments. While 8 kids at once was never the norm, families having 8 kids wasn’t unusual back in the very old days, if you counted all the stillbirths and dead kids. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/38 "2010-09-21T00:51:33Z")
If you can figure a way to send her back to the last century, I’m all for it. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/39 "2010-09-21T01:07:56Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > If you can figure a way to send her back to the last century, I’m all for it. Plane ticket to Iran? Oh, wait, that’s going back four or five centuries… ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301/40 "2010-09-21T08:36:10Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Crap, I should have posted in a blog instead of here - now the Straight Dope will get my copyright money. 🙂 Don’t feel bad. At least you provided a source of revenue to be applied for servers upgrades 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octomom-resurfaces-supposedly-planning-to-go-back-on-welfare/554301.md?page=3)