# Throw You Children To The Alligators! For Their Birthday! Newslink **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 3, 2012, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throw-you-children-to-the-alligators-for-their-birthday-newslink/636632 "2012-10-03T23:15:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throw-you-children-to-the-alligators-for-their-birthday-newslink/636632/41 "2012-10-04T20:07:06Z")
> [@](#): > > _Frogs and snakes > in my swimin’ pool. > It was home sweet home > ‘till the algae grew. > Life ain’t easy, > tryin’ to be a croc-o-dile._ (Scott Merritt: “Memoirs from a Contaminated Well”) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throw-you-children-to-the-alligators-for-their-birthday-newslink/636632/42 "2012-10-04T20:08:41Z")
[ducks and runs]Let’s go down to the quarry and throw kids and 'gators in there![/ducks and runs] ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throw-you-children-to-the-alligators-for-their-birthday-newslink/636632/43 "2012-10-04T20:31:08Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I don’t get this post. Surely by mouth, you meant wrists? I think he meant wrists, ankles, nose, and mouth. But I am reading between the lines a bit. Of course the gators mouth should be untaped and it should be a hungry gator. One kid will have a bad party but the rest will have a party they will never forget! Priceless I tells ya. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throw-you-children-to-the-alligators-for-their-birthday-newslink/636632/44 "2012-10-04T20:44:40Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Of course the gators mouth should be untaped and it should be a hungry gator. Can we also give the gator a chainsaw? 'Cause that would be cool. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throw-you-children-to-the-alligators-for-their-birthday-newslink/636632/45 "2012-10-04T20:50:34Z")
During my middle school deep south coming of age alligator pool party my parents saved up and gave the gator a trebuchet. I thought it was pretty classy but I think it went over most of the other parents heads. Though we did live closer to town in one of the more upper class double wides so I guess that was to be expected. My very poor but best friend Billy had to settle for a nutria with a weed wacker for his pool party. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throw-you-children-to-the-alligators-for-their-birthday-newslink/636632/46 "2012-10-04T21:23:17Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Maybe you swim an alligator like you walk a dog. That’s gonna have to pass the Aerosmith test. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throw-you-children-to-the-alligators-for-their-birthday-newslink/636632/47 "2012-10-04T21:45:21Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > During my middle school deep south coming of age alligator pool party my parents saved up and gave the gator a trebuchet. I thought it was pretty classy but I think it went over most of the other parents heads. Though we did live closer to town in one of the more upper class double wides so I guess that was to be expected. My very poor but best friend Billy had to settle for a nutria with a weed wacker for his pool party. That is touching. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throw-you-children-to-the-alligators-for-their-birthday-newslink/636632/48 "2012-10-05T13:09:45Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > That’s gonna have to pass the Aerosmith test. If I could walk that way my alligator wouldn’t need the talcum powder. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/throw-you-children-to-the-alligators-for-their-birthday-newslink/636632.md?page=2)