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glowbelly · #1

i was thinking of starting a baby pool thing where you all give a dollar via paypal to guess the birthdate, weight and maybe length of my kid. i'd split the pot with the person who came closest all around.

you could guess more than once, but each guess will cost ya. i'll give approximates based on what i know, like when my due date is and how much weight i have gained.

anyone up for it, or am i being a totally queer mommy head who should just shut up about being pregnant already?

Matt Harty · #2

congradulations on the baby!

glowbelly · #3

um, i haven't had it yet, but thanks!

pjalne · #4

YOU'RE WELCOME!

glowbelly · #5

it's like i'm addressing a bunch of gnats.

Dole · #6

Count me in, bettin on babies is sweeeeeet!

FartinMowler · #7

Babies poo different colours

McMock · #8

Can we also bet on who the mother will be? LOL. It's you of course.

FS · #9

I'm always in for a bet, and I say Christmas, navy blue and dinosaur.

mburbank · #10

Paypal hates me. I'll mail you a dollar. Betting on babies is fine with me.

I need to know your official due date to make my guess.

Can we guess voter things to for increased odds? I want to say she will have an extra finger on her left hand, slightly past the pinky, fully functional.

Cosmo Electrolux · #11

Yeah! I'll bet she has a birthmark in the shape of Dick Chenney's sneer on her backside.....

the_dudefather · #12

will your baby see any of this money?

Hmm?

Matt Harty · #13

Early college fund.

mburbank · #14

NOBODY IS SERIOUS BUT ME!

I think we need a private I-mockery parents forum. I think it should be visible but inaccessible, so that other mockers know that in addition to children and proven fertility (or the proven respectability to adopt) we have something they don't, ie. a forum.

Terra · #15

I'll pay and play.

Will Godparents be able to access the forum, mburbank? I'm a Godparent of a four week old.

Or will the new forum be based on the ability to document spawnage?

mburbank · #16

I'm only kidding.

God Parenting is all dependant on how close you live, like being an Aunt or Uncle.

glowbelly · #17

my official due date is march 28, 2005.

i will totally use this money to purchase something for the child, even if it only amounts to enough for a package of diapers. every little bit will help.

side bets are encouraged, but i'm not sure how i can award them if they end up correct and i can't guarantee that i won't blame you forever if my child ends up with one of your strange predictions.

i will be finding out the sex of the baby in advance (november 5!!), so i can either include that bit of information to aid you in your guesses or i can hide it from all of you and you can try to guess that too.

FS · #18

I absolutely can't make logical estimate about stuff like this (or anything dealing with length, size or weight, for that matter), but I'll just poll my parents on my own stats as a baby and bet on those.

glowbelly · #19

only 5% of babies are born on their due dates. some say that first time moms go early, some say they go late. i figure if i give you how much weight i've gained, you can maybe deduce how much of that is baby and how much of it is boob, blood, placenta and just plain old fat.

i dunno how to determine length. i can tell you how tall i am and how tall bri is: me being ALMOST 5'5" and brian being 5'8". we're shorties...having a shorty...oh haha.

anyways, i'm gonna set this thing up. i think i read somewhere that there's an online service that does all of this stuff for you, but i'm not sure. i'll go look now.

mburbank · #20

Okay, I'm in for 3/23/05.

I'll figure out the rest later.

glowbelly · #21

i think i'm gonna set one up on babypool.com. the only downside is in order to participate you have to register. i'll try it and if it ends up being too much of a hassle for you folks, we'll scrap it and do it the old fashioned way.

glowbelly · #22

i lied. i need email addresses for anyone who wants to participate. you can either post them here, or pm me.

i'll probably just send invites out to people whose email addys i know. so yeah. k.