Cheap and durable, if slightly less mobile than the original.

LolCats meet LolKids: a memetic union for the ages!

Also, this is probably the best place to note that it was just the repressed Englishmen that insisted on the short pants for their boys. The Scots, presumably, realized they’d all have expired of hypothermia if they’d been jammed into hot pants in that climate.

Yes, this is just what the world has been waiting for.

Let’s face it, even Jeffrey Dahmer’s dad put out a book of parenting advice, so who’s to say it’s inappropriate for someone whose sole credential is that he has been found in a court of law to be more reliable than…Britney Spears…to speak out on Saturday Night Live with some golden nuggets of immortal wisdom for the parents of the world?

So, you were probably wondering, if you were a fundamentally sensible yet imaginative type as we all know you are, who, exactly, would wear Che Guevara children’s anklet socks with their bow-bedecked camo ballet slippers.

This girl would (click to enlarge):

~Thorn~ starring Rosie
Posted by permission of the author, Amy Mebberson

Ah, they grow up so fast. Now she’s clearly getting a jump on her Britney/Xtina phase.

You know how it works. Behind one door is the lady, behind the other, the deadly tiger.

Oh, sorry. Wrong blog.

What I meant to say was that we fight not for individual glory, but for … well, we don’t actually fight, either. We just make funny captions for the following picture, for which task I am sure you will be well up, particularly if you’ve had as much caffeine as I have.

from bitter purl via Fracas

As usual, if you’d like a pic of your own child featured in our Friday Caption Contest, email it to me as a jpeg file no more than 400 pixels wide: raincoaster at gmail dot com. The glory of immortal fame shall be yours…and your kid’s.

What not to wear when you’re pregnant? What the lovely and apparently very fertile Cindy Margolis is wearing right here:

Actually, don’t wear it when you’re not pregnant, either.

And the winner is: gamma, for the following gem.

“Absolut Americana” …I don’t think I’m legal to hawk this…

If you would like your little darlings to feature in future Friday Caption Contests, please save the picture as a JPG (400 pixels wide or narrower, plzthx) and email it to me at raincoaster at gmail dot com.  Soon, the glories of immortal fame and the indignities of being captioned (and perhaps even LOLed) will be theirs!

Belated congratulations to the Dicks of Spokane. 20 1/2 inches is pretty impressive!

Seriously, the kid may get teased in gradeschool, but I think that the post-pubescent payoff will be worth it. Once he’s a grownup, he is going to OWN every honky-tonk he walks into.

From Name of the Year, via Bridlepath who also passes along the delightful Baby’s Named a Bad, Bad Thing. See our previous remarks on no-no’s of nanonomenclature here.