{"id":6458,"date":"2025-05-09T06:12:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T05:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=6458"},"modified":"2025-05-09T06:12:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T05:12:56","slug":"a-woman-had-8-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=6458","title":{"rendered":"A woman had 8 children"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman had 8 children, all of them boys.<\/h2>\n

So, one day a magazine sent a journalist to her house for an interview. He asked her about the boys and what their names were; she said, \u201cJohnnie\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight\u201d, he said, \u201cwhat about that blond one over there?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJohnnie\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, and the tall one with the freckles?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJohnnie\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, and the little chubby one with the baseball cap?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJohnnie\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre all your boys called Johnnie?\u201d he asked, \u201cIsn`t that terribly complicated?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot at all\u201d, she said, \u201cit makes everything very easy, actually. When I shout: Johnnie, tea is ready!, they all come. When I say: Johnnie, it`s time for bed!, they all go to bed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI see. But what if you want only one of them?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo problem.\u201d she answers. Then I call them by their surnames.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

An old mountaineer and his young ex-wife were fighting over custody of their children.<\/h2>\n

The mother protested that since she brought her kids into this world, she should retain custody of them.<\/p>\n

The judge asked the old mountaineer for his side of the story.<\/p>\n

After a long moment of silence, the mountaineer rose from his chair and asked, \u201cJudge, when I put a quarter in a candy machine and a candy bar comes out, does it belong to me or the machine?\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For two solid hours,<\/h2>\n

the lady sitting next to a man on an airplane had told him about her grandchildren. She had even produced a plastic-foldout photo album of all nine of the children.<\/p>\n

She finally realized that she had dominated the entire conversation on her grandchildren.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, I\u2019ve done all the talking, and I\u2019m so sorry. I know you certainly have something to say. Please, tell me\u2026\u00a0what do you think of my grandchildren?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A couple with three children waited in line at San Francisco\u2019s Pier 41 to purchase tickets for a boat trip to Alcatraz.<\/h2>\n

Others watched with varying degrees of sympathy and irritation as the young children fidgeted, whined, and punched one another. The frazzled parents reprimanded them to no avail.<\/p>\n

Finally they reached the ticket window. \u201cFive tickets, please,\u201d the father said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo round trip, three one way.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A woman had 8 children, all of them boys. So, one day a magazine sent a journalist to her house for an interview. He asked her about the boys and what their names were; she said, \u201cJohnnie\u201d. \u201cRight\u201d, he said, \u201cwhat about that blond one over there?\u201d \u201cJohnnie\u201d, she said. \u201cOh, and the tall one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6459,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions\/6459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}