"Sippy cups are primarily for toddlers, yes. But they're also handy when you put a 7-year-old in a pristine white dress, hand her chocolate milk and expect her to stay clean and happy. After the Tribune reported she was drinking chocolate milk (a treat, we assume, for suffering through the day in court), the sippy cup decision struck us as eminently reasonable."
-The Chicago Sun-Times defends Rod and Patti Blagojevich's decision to have their daughter carry a sippy cup into the courtroom where the former Illinois governor is being tried for corruption. Critics contend it was a ruse meant to make the jury think the daughter is younger than her 7 years. Jury deliberations began earlier today, and at least one observer thinks Blagojevich has a good chance of beating the rap.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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A sippy cup would in no way protect my daughters' (9 and almost 7)dresses from the likes of chocolate milk. Man can those kids SPILL.
Why they would want their 7-year-old to sit on her dad's trial is beyond me.
Do you know about the juice-box trick? Fold up the corners and tell them to use those triangles as handles. No squeeze-y spills!
Certainly don't mean to sound harsh about my girls, b/c of course they are awesome, but IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO KEEP THEM FROM SPILLING.
I didn't even know they made clothes in white until I was in high school. /RELENTLESS SPILLER
@garge: This gives me hope.
I am going to be honest with you, though: I do not own a white sofa and sometimes choose white wine not because it pairs with what I'm eating.
But you don't still live at home, right???
By the way, this bothers me because of the endless cleaning up that it requires, not because I'm a neat freak (ha! the very thought!), but most of what they spill can't just be left there.
I have cleared every rent check all by myself since I was 18 years and two days old! Obstacles overcome DAILY.
And we (I'll just speak for everyone) interpreted you as such, and not as some kind of compulsive Howie Mandellist!
Typical Awl generosity appreciated.
God, that poor girl has no self-respect.
Sippy cups are also handy for those of us long out of nursery school who like to drink in venues where alcohol is not being provided.
Call it a "water bottle."
Yes! I purchased a sippy cup of wine at a Broadway show this weekend. Team sippy cup.
The 14 year old daughter passed the time by imagining all the various things in the courtroom she could hang herself from.
Of course his wife is named "Patti." That's perfection.
He got the hair. She got the balls.
I had a ship of the Royal Navy docked right outside my window last month during 'Fleet Week', and among other things I learned about life in Her Majesty's Navy (e.g they do a lot of texting!) was that a few of them seemed to drink their tea from giant sippy cups.
Rum, sodomy, and the lash circa 2010: Rum now served in sippy cups; the lash replaced by texted censure; sodomy basically unchanged.