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• Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.
• If ET married Peter Cetera, would he then be ET Cetera ?
• The King and I Et cetera, et cetera. --Yul Brynne
• Sailors do it ad nauseam.
• Did you hear about the not too bright mother of 12 who was called upon to use her diaphragm so often that she kept it tacked to the headboard of her bed.
• Is a WATCH OUT FOR CHILDREN sign a birth control ad?
• The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
  -- Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) (1805-1881) -- Speech, Nov. 19, 1870...
• A mother mouse was taking her large brood for a stroll across the kitchen floor one day when the local cat, by a feat of stealth unusual even for its species, managed to trap them in a corner.
  The children cowered, terrified by this fearsome beast, plaintively crying, "Help, Mother!...
• The California Paiute Indian Reservation's laws forbid a mother-in-law to spend more than thirty days a year with her children.