Relating to things I know
Posted by E-George on May 9, 2008
Being pregnant, I’ve been recommended several websites to look over for information, communities, etc. I was relating to a friend who is pregnant in Seattle that I had signed up with BabyCenter.com, who sends me weekly emails giving me the genericized low-down of my baby’s gestational progress. They’ve been relating the baby’s shape or size or weight to various pieces of produce. The first email I received described the baby as being the size of a lentil. Next came the grape, the kumquat, the fig, the lime, the medium shrimp, the lemon, the apple, the avocado, the turnip, the bell pepper, and most recently, the heirloom tomato. I know they do this so I have a way to be in the grocery store and to see a lime or turnip and be all, “Hey! A baby!” But even so, I’m sometimes wishing they could or would get more creative in their descriptors. I’m rooting to get an email that describes the baby as a “haunch of boar.”
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beef said,
wheee, we’re up to butternut nut squash!
Nathan said,
Perhaps you’d prefer that they say your baby is now roughly the size of a mature Philippine Tarsier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Tarsier
John Tiesi said,
Wait! A Shrimp is not a piece of produce.
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