# OK, anytime now, Beta-chan
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 24, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971 "2008-09-24T12:48:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/81 "2008-09-29T22:11:36Z")
October 1, 12:01 a.m. One of my best college friends has a birthday that day. Also, it’s really soon. Hope everything goes very quickly and uneventfully!
GT
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### Author:  [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2008, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/82 "2008-09-30T01:07:45Z")
> [@TroubleAgain](#):
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> So are you going to tell us the name, or are you going to wait for the birth announcement?🆒
No one is even trying to guess the name. Well, one or two did, but the request was for a hint, which has been supplied.
My wife is at the doctors now, as I type, getting her checkup. We’ll find out soon if there is any news, but my guess is that there were too many sticky thoughts throughout the world for this little girl to slip out really early.
Expected Date Minus 9 days, now.
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### Author:  [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/83 "2008-09-30T02:36:30Z")
She’s back from the hospital.
The say Beta could come anytime now, and to give a call if anything changes at all!
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### Author:  [@quilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quilter)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/84 "2008-09-30T02:43:24Z")
Woo hoo!
Congratulations! Sometime in the next month, you’ll be parents!
(What? You thought “anytime now” meant “soon”?!?)
Note to Mrs. Tokyo from a mom: It **WILL** end, and you’ll have a baby. I promise!
eta to add emphasis to “will” end.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/85 "2008-10-01T16:35:37Z")
_Continuing countdown to due date:_
8 days
Hmmm, we haven’t heard from **Tokyo Player** in over a day and a half.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/86 "2008-10-01T16:41:20Z")
:: sticks head into thread after seeing it return to the top of the list ::
Any news?
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/87 "2008-10-01T16:53:07Z")
No news. It was just a baby bump.
What?
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/88 "2008-10-01T16:55:57Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#):
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> No news. It was just a baby bump.
>
> What?
The atmosphere here is pregnant with anticipation.
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### Author:  [@criminey.jicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminey.jicket)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2008, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/89 "2008-10-01T17:00:39Z")
There’s still no baby because she’s waiting for 10:02 tomorrow. 😃
And **TokyoPlayer** , is the name you were hinting about Assume?
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### Author:  [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/90 "2008-10-01T22:44:48Z")
Can we make a new board rule? That when the announcement of Beta-Chans birth is made, it will be a boardwide headline?
Or at least make sure it is in it’s own thread.
TokyoPlayer, if you announce it in this thread, I will wish 3 exploded diapers on you. And if you aren’t careful, a trifecta! (being pooped, peed and vomited upon, the first true right of passage as a parent)
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/91 "2008-10-01T22:53:26Z")
> [@pbbth](#):
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> I pick October 9th at 10:34 in the morning. I’m so excited for the **TokyoPlayer** family!
I pick October 9th at **10:35** in the morning . . . same as Mr. S.
(On the other hand, my sister was born on October 5 . . .)
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