Mom Says: I Am Not an Exotic Dancer, I Work at Home Depot

To me this clearly shows a shovel and the mom is trying to hold on to it, thats why shes arched alittle and there are all the people trying to get it. I don't know what the problem is about the handwriting, my son had wonderful handwriting at a very young age.

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Does it really matter? And, so what if Mommy is an exotic dancer in a club? That doesn't make her a bad mother. In fact, she probably works shorter hours and makes more money than the teacher!

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its a shovel...a stripper stage is much wider and strippers hide their professions from their kids..

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The right wingers and christians are always screaming how gay people do nothing but think about sex. Its YOU that finds sexual images and gestures in EVERYTHING! Maybe if you worked on some real issues in the world instead of worrying about sex(which you must not be getting any) then things might get better! You are selfish and could care less about anyone but yourselves! Much less the excuse you always use..." the children"!

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I would have to make mention of the fact that all the stick figures are men except for the one on the pole or "shovel". I think this clears up what the picture is really about...

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Funny AND believable. When my daughter graduated from Kindergarten, they were supposed to receive their diploma, shake hands and go to the microphone and say what they wanted to be when they grow up. My daughter practiced several times saying "I want to be a veterinarian". On that day, video camera in hand (along with many other parents), I recorded my daughter proudly standing and saying, "When I grow up I want to dance on stage in my underwear like the Spice Girls". Priceless and SO my daughter.

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My father worked R&D at a silicone factory and made my mother some "toys". I found them while I was snooping thru their room and they told me they were samples from dads work. One night they were having a party with a dozen friends over to our house and I popped in the living room with the "samples" to show everyone what my dad makes at work. 30 years later I still bust out laughing at the Horror on my parents faces. I never saw those "samples" after that day.

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I remember seeing this picture and explanation a while ago in a Readers Digest. The magazine wasn't mine and I forget where it was, so I can't tell you the issue. Personally, my biggest problem with the picture is the minimal use of color, meaning everything is black except a few people's heair color. I would think that the child would use color more liberally.

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hello! if she was a stripper how would the kid know what that seen looks like . the mother is not going to bring her child to work wih her .and the mother would not let her child know that she is a stripper. my mom was a stripper while i was growing up .i believed that she made money. as far as knowing that she striped ........i did not for manny years until i was old enough and she told me.

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I only have two questions: Why are all the customers men? Why isn't she wearing the signature orange "Home Desperate" apron?

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"What I think" is that the child is depicting a story told to her by her mom, and EVERYONE ELSE seems to just have a dirty mind, and wants to twist a wonderful drawing from a child, who appreciates the hard work done by her mother, into something DIRTY, in their minds, based on THEIR OWN FRAME OF REFERENCE. Now, this creative child may never write or draw anything again. THIS SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED, in any case, with all these references of what people "think'' it looks like. .

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i def saw a shovel!

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Sometimes when children are asked to draw a picture, the teacher or teacher's helper actually prints the caption for the child, especially if they are very young. Having had an eerily similar situation happen in my own child's school career, let me just say thaqt it is totally possible this is not a hoax.

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Hoax or not, it's still hilarious.

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Only a complete idiot would think that this picture depicts the kids mother as a stripper! What did the mother do......explain in minute detail what mommy does at the strip club over fruit loops in the morning? Or maybe the mother treated the kid to the strangest damned "take your kid to work day" in work history? Or maybe it's just what the mother said it was, and you're all just a bunch of dipshits...which makes the most sense of all! And I don't know where any of you went to school, but if your kid doesn't have handwriting at least as good as this kids, then get your kids away from the damned nintendo and have them practice their penmanship!!! And by the way...
If a child has a talent for drawing, they are absolutely capable of showing amazing detail and perspective beyond their years! My own 8 year daughter for example, is an excellent artist for her age. My favorite drawing from her, is of a girl looking into a hand held mirror. She drew the girl from behind, with the back of the head, and shoulders in perfect proportion to each other. Then....she drew the face as a reflection IN the mirror. That would have been mind blowing enough, but what stopped me in my tracks as I watched her draw it, was the way she knew to angle the head in the opposite direction, in the "mirror image"!!!

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My daughter teaches pole dancing as excerise and this is withouit a doubt a woman on stage dancing around a pole, with men looking up at her with money in their hands. I believe its a hoax anyway, like one other person said, Smith and Jones... c'mon.

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This has got to be the real thing. My granddaughter had beautiful handwriting in her early years of school and drew the stick people with their faces the same way, and I have some of her drawings too prove.

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um....this was in the news at least a year ago if not longer. Way to drag out the forgotten archives instead of finding real news to share!!

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