The Facts of Life

November 9, 2007

Scene: Morning. Mrs. Sarcastro is taking our two Honor Students to school.

Twelve: Did you hear about that woman in Nashville giving birth to that baby with 8 legs?

Mrs. Sarcastro: It was in India.

Twelve: Nuh-uh, it was in Tennessee. I heard it at school.

Mrs. Sarcastro: Then you heard wrong.

Twelve: Can you imagine a baby with 8 legs coming out of a woman’s butt like that?

Mrs. Sarcastro: We’ve talked about this before, babies don’t come out of a woman’s butt. They come out of the vagina.

Twelve: I know.

Nine: A whaaaat? A vagina?

Mrs. Sarcastro: Yes, honey. It’s one of the other, uh, holes down there that ladies have.

Nine: Has there ever in the world been a man who has had a baby?

Mrs. Sarcastro: No, it’s not anatomically possible for men to have babies.

Twelve: Except for gay guys.

Mrs. Sarcastro: What? Gay men can’t have babies!

Twelve: Uh-huh! I’ve SEEN gay guys with their children. How else did they get them?

Mrs. Sarcastro: Um, they adopted.

Twelve: Oh. I didn’t think about that.

Now for a gratuitous Monty Python bit that is only tangentially related to the post.