Re: Librarians, was RE: [SG] HAMR

Quoting John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com>:

> Children:  Can't live with 'em, and it's illegal to
> drown them.  Frankly, I don't understand why anyone
> bothers with those things.  They smell bad and are
> heinously expensive.[1]  
> 
> [1]Well, I'm mostly joking. . . 

Old collegue of mine used to refer to children as "burning lotuses"
which 
induced blank looks. He did eventually explain he'd worked out that
having a 
kid was about the same price as buying a top of the line lotus sports
car and 
setting fire to it...

Partner-of-a-friend is a university librarian, and from what she says,
that's