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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
It's like being a parent. With the first child, you panic at the first sneeze and come running at the first wimper. By the time even your second child is a toddler, you learn which cries require attention and which ones are best ignored.
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I don't mean to hijack the thread, but your remark reminds me of the following definition from the Parents' Dictionary:
sterilize:
vt. What one does to one's first baby's pacifier by boiling it, and one's last baby's pacifier by blowing on it.