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One begins to get some idea of the extent of the problem reading Parkinson's list of just a few of the colloquial expressions for pregnancy: Away the trip (Scottish working class), to be caught, to be expecting, to be having a baby, to be in a delicate condition, to be in an interesting condition, to be in pig, to be in pod, to be in the family way, to be in the pudding club, to be preggers, to be so, to be up the pole, to be up the stick, to catch on, to catch the virus, to fall for a baby, to have a bun in the oven, to have a touch of the sun.
It said there was also some irony "in expecting a president to be absolutely truthful on personal matters when he heads a government which often varnishes the truth--or worse--on matters of much graver importance."
To do so would be like expecting to discern the fundamental laws of electromagnetism in the output of a personal computer.
It may seem odd to think of five or six years ago as a "different time," but in so many ways (pre-Internet, pre-Gingrich, pre-boom, still expecting the recession of 1990-1991 to come back) it was.
I'm 28, and my boyfriend and I are expecting our first baby in January 2000.