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Tuesday, August 17. 2010

You Can Have My Invention

Toddlers commonly swing their sippy cups in a motion resembling swinging a beer stein. So, I thought, it would be a fun and lucrative invention to market a baby beer stein sippy cup.


The mothers I talked to didn't think it near as much fun as did the fathers, and we all know who rules the high chair.  The closest photo I could find of my idea was this one, for seniors.  The one I had in mind would have been fancier.



As usual, mothers had it correct, if only because the joke might have been taken more seriously. This mother in Florida learned that lesson, the hard way, due to posting a photo on her facebook of her baby with a bong. The mother was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia, not for child abuse.


In any event, if you want my invention, you're welcome to it.

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Almost as offensive as drinking beer with a straw, but it would probably sell as a novelty anyway...I never understood why the insulated covers for beer (coozies??) were popular...I never had a beer open long enough to get warm before drinking it
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#2 AKBAR VOJDANI on 2010-10-09 11:31 (Reply)

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