Code Green

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So, today's subject: Poop color. Before you send your favorite potty jokes or make a comment about how juvenile the subject may be, think of this - baby books devote pages and pages to the bowel offerings of our offspring (click here for an example).

For the new parent, the diversity in the diaper is rather unsettling. After all, we are all pretty much experts in the art of the bowel movement, and have had extensive experience discussing things like consistency, color, etc (particularly if you ever lived in a men's freshman dormitory).

But what happens when what comes out of baby is more primary color than subtractive? What is the new parent to think?

As it turns out, one is to think nothing at all. Apparently, the color charts found in the books are just as useless as other color coded warning systems we hear so much about. It doesn't matter what color it is, as long as it is consistently that color.

Couldn't they have told us that in the first place? Of course, as a society, what would we have to talk about, if not for the bowels.

A new poll:

In the best of all possible worlds, what would be your choice of poo color?
	Good old American brown
	All the colors of the rainbow
	Commie pinko
	Orange sherbet
	It ain't easy being green
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