Travel with Children - TIME Magazine - Joel Stein - Baby on Board

TIME Magazine - Joel Stein - Baby on Board (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2081912,00.html)
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So I'm proud of Malaysia Airlines for banning kids under 2 in first class. I've taken Laszlo on the business-class section of a flight, and it was a horrible thing to do to other passengers. I've also taken him on the economy section of a flight, and that was a horrible thing to do to those passengers too. But they were poor passengers, so they deserved it.

The reason I took my baby with me on business class is that airlines have a crazy rule that instead of paying for another seat, you can put a kid under 2 on your lap for an entire domestic flight. They won't let you keep your purse on your lap during takeoff and landing, since it might turn into a deadly projectile, but an infant is apparently soft enough to ricochet harmlessly off passenger after passenger. Once his skull ossifies over his soft spots, he's got to buckle up.

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It turns out business class is awesome for babies: they tire themselves out running around the airline's business-class lounge, and on the plane they can't reach the seat in front of them with their feet, there's more stuff attached to the armrest to play with, the aisles are wider for them to stumble through, and there are fewer people to hear them cry.

I'm not familiar with him. I don't read Time but he said nothing original (and let's count how many thread subjects from here he's covered lol!)

Like the way he goes on about bouncing babies on laps and then opts for two seats in business instead of three in economy? Guess his baby bounces as well as any of ours :p

Plus the fact that that was a rumor about Malaysian...

If anyone wants the full version, here it is!
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2081912,00.html

I'm not familiar with him.

That is obvious from your reaction.

Here is how his website (http://www.thejoelstein.com/thejoelstein.com/Bio.html) (<- this is a link) describes him:Joel Stein is desperate for attention. He grew up in Edison, N.J., went to Stanford and then worked for Martha Stewart for a year. After a year of fact-checking at various important publications (okay, Readers Digest Books and TV Guide), he got hired as a sports editor at Time Out New York, where they paid him to write sentences. He felt like the luckiest boy in the world.

But the luck was just beginning.

Two years later he lucked into a job as a staff writer for Time magazine, where over seven and a half years he wrote a dozen cover stories on subjects such as Michael Jordan, Las Vegas, the Internet bubble and — it being Time and he being a warm body in the office — low-carb diets.

Being desperate for attention, he has appeared on any TV show that asks him: VH1's "I Love the Decade You Tell Me I Love," HBO's "Phoning It In," Comedy Central's "Reel Comedy" and E! Entertainment's "101 Hottest Hot Hotties' Hotness." This, to his surprise, is the only thing anyone knows him for. But he’ll take it any way he can.

After teaching a class in humor writing at Princeton, he moved to L.A. at the beginning of 2005 to write a column for the Los Angeles Times and work as a sitcom writer. In addition to working for the failed show Crumbs, he has already had two failed pilots at ABC and hopes to expand into failed pilots at other networks.

He still contributes to Time and whatever magazines allow him to. Did he mention that he taught at Princeton? The University?

And, yes, he’s married. To a woman. Shut up.

For an unbiased view, you can go to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Stein). Warning: It isn’t all nice. But it’s accurate, except the part about my first boss, Martha Stewart, firing me twice in one day. She doesn’t have time for two firings. The woman has jellies to jar.



Like the way he goes on about bouncing babies on laps and then opts for two seats in business instead of three in economy? Guess his baby bounces as well as any of ours :p

:rolleyes:

This is sarcasm. He writes humor.

If anyone wants the full version, here it is!
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2081912,00.html

My original post contained a link to the complete article (TIME Magazine - Joel Stein - Baby on Board (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2081912,00.html)).

I hope everyone can understand humor and sarcasm of this article even though TIME is clearly not advanced enough to utilize :rolleyes: ;) :eek: etc when appropriate (that was my attempt at humor and sarcasm in case someone missed it...)

I understood it but it simply wasn't either funny or original!

This is sarcasm. He writes humor.

It's too bad he doesn't do a better job. I, too, failed to find the article original or funny. I've read exactly the same comments here on FT over the years. And probably in funnier versions.

how he keeps this gig I'll never know