First Time Parents

Ah, the first baby. They always bring their parents so much anxiety:

'Our baby's the devil', say Colombian parents whose child can 'walk at four weeks and breathes fire'

This is news? Someone skipped the new parent classes offered by the hospital.

Black magic and evil spirits have captured the soul of a new-born baby in Colombia who can apparently already walk by himself and produce fire, his own mother has claimed.

Ana Feria Santos gave birth to her son last month but says her joy quickly turned to fear when she noticed that he had 'several abnormalities' - leading to fears in her community that he is the 'devil in disguise'. [...]

Her neighbours in the town of Lorica, near the Caribbean coast, also say he is possessed by a 'malign spirit' and that he is capable of producing fire.

This, they say, is because burn marks have been found on his clothes and a sofa where he regularly sits.

My daughters had that problem, too. Miralax cleared it up and it never happened again after about eight months. It's just a normal developmental stage. Nothing to be alarmed about.

You can read the rest at the link. Note that it's a Daily Mail article, so it's entirely possible that the article may not be fully accurate.

Link -via Dave Barry | Photo: USCPSC


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On my eeePC it's an extremely tiny wine press (one grape at a time, we'll get there eventually) the black thing o the side to to scrape the smushed grape off...

On my Mac laptop, its probably some sort of ball marker, but too small to be a golf ball marker.. (use your imagination, fidelity for the win)
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Going with the popular theory and saying it's used to monogram golf balls.

My other guess is that it's either used to put a wax seal on wine bottles, or put a cap on a bottle of beer / alcohol
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Used to applying a wax seal on a rolled up piece of paper.
Like one seals used on letters in the old days to identify the sender, and verify that the letter has not been opened.
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Obviously a Stevenson Staple Sucker, a staple remover designed and crafted before the invention of the staple. The inventor had to be very imaginative since nobody knew what a staple was going to be shaped like, or be used for. Since it was ~42 more years before staples were invented, it explains why this device was such a commercial failure and therefore somewhat rare. A few have found their way, after being heavily modified, into the collections of gullible golf gear gatherers. Golf ball marker, really.

BTW I don't think identifying the Stevenson Staple Sucker is "easy" for the average "staple ignorant" population. Also, Stevenson later went on to change the name of his company to ACME and was very successful, especially due to an excellent product delivery system.
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