# Oops...It's a boy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 29, 2000, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-its-a-boy/14169 "2000-02-29T14:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-its-a-boy/14169/1 "2000-02-29T14:39:00Z")
Went to the routine ultrasound with my wife. Babypony #2 is due sometime around 8 Aug. Having a son, we naturally wanted a girl this time, but just mostly hoping everything’s all right. Having all my new dad jitters gone with Babypony #1, almost three years ago, I settled in to watching the monitor and glance the upcoming trades in the baseball world in my Sporting News. Last time, we went down to a clinic and paid $150 to get an extra ultrasound at the halfway point to determine the sex. Babypony #1 happily obliged and waved his wanker at the camera. This time we wanted the baby’s sex to be a surprise. No big deal, just wanted to do something different. Just as I was going over the Atlanta Braves’ prospective opening day lineup, Babypony #2, in a graphic display of inherited traits and behaviors, flashed the ultrasound waving **his** wanker in full glory. No cooperation with mommy and daddy, even before birth. After my wife finished laughing, the doctor gave me the “It’s too early to tell yet” speech, but even he was smirking as well. Well, at least we can get bunk beds now and I get to keep the computer room for a few more years. 🙂 * * * _…send lawyers, guns, and money…_ ``` Warren Zevon ``` ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-its-a-boy/14169/2 "2000-02-29T14:42:00Z")
Congratulations! I guess with all that wanker waving, they take after their dad, huh? (kidding! kidding!) ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-its-a-boy/14169/3 "2000-02-29T14:45:00Z")
Hope you have a healthy happy colt to add to the roster! ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-its-a-boy/14169/4 "2000-02-29T14:47:00Z")
Lucky you. I love little boys. They have a way of tugging at a mom’s heart. Beleive me my son is rotten to the core and it’s all my doing so I can’t complain, and he’s 20. Congratulations on the new one. * * * _I’ve learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it._ ---
**Author:** ![StrTrkr777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@StrTrkr777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrTrkr777)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-its-a-boy/14169/5 "2000-02-29T15:17:00Z")
Congrats BluePony. My wife and I had a girl 3 years ago and are due with our second Trkr in July. Early indications are we are having a girl again. We wanted a boy just to have one of each. But we will be happy either way. I hope all goes well with you and Mrs. Pony. Jeffery ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-its-a-boy/14169/6 "2000-02-29T16:07:00Z")
Congrats to the new addition to the herd. “Long may he wave.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-its-a-boy/14169/7 "2000-03-01T06:15:00Z")
Cool! Another Doper! Get’em young, train’em right! Congratulations to you and your mare! * * * VB Cowabunga Buffalo Bob! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-its-a-boy/14169/8 "2000-02-29T22:53:00Z")
Oh Boy Oh Boy ! That’s great news! Keep us informed and do we get to help pick out a name? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-its-a-boy/14169/9 "2000-02-29T23:54:00Z")
**Bluepony** , are you sure you didn’t mistake a nose for something else? Don’t count your chicks until they’ve hatched!! Good luck with # 2. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-its-a-boy/14169/10 "2000-02-29T23:59:00Z")
Yay Bluepony! I hope that boy inherits your sense of humor. We need more hysterically funny people in the world. * * * Changing my sig, because Wally said to, and I really like Wally, and I’ll do anything he says, anytime he says to. ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-its-a-boy/14169/11 "2000-03-01T01:02:00Z")
Bluepony…That was the Umbilicus you fool! Congrats. * * * \>\>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.\<\< —The dragon observes ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-its-a-boy/14169/12 "2000-03-01T03:15:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Shirley Ujest: > \*\*Oh Boy Oh Boy ! That’s great news! Keep us informed and do we get to help pick out a name? > > \*\* It would be interesting to let the Dopers help pick the name. I conceded to my wife’s Protestant Bible-background and she selected Joshua Timothy. It’s cool, I can live with that. The irreverant, nun-baiting Catholic that I am was sorta hoping I could pick out the name from a science-fiction novel or from a really weird patron saint (we got lots of them!!). I love Mrs. Bluepony, but Baptists really need to work on their sense of humor. 🙂 * * * _…send lawyers, guns, and money…_ ``` Warren Zevon ``` ---
**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-its-a-boy/14169/13 "2000-03-01T03:26:00Z")
## Congratulations to you both Bluepony, and as a Baptist, you’re absolutely right, we come humor-deficient, it may be in the genes…or jeans! “I only use 10% or less of what I study. It’s a waist. sined, Dropout” Up The Down Stair Case ---
**Author:** ![froololly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/87869e/32.png) [@froololly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/froololly)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-its-a-boy/14169/14 "2000-03-01T03:27:00Z")
actually, having 2 boys isn’t so bad… just do what we did. have 2 girls immediately afterward. the way i figure it, this way (with 3 and 3) no one can complain whether the seat is up or down… 😃 * * * “…for i am always a lady, archy… always a lady. i did not do anything vulgar. i simply removed his right eye with my left claw.” mehetibel the cat on the subject of marraige