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For whatever reason, my articles about the Duggar family are the most popular on this site (If you’re new to the site, start with Life in the Duggar Family.). You people have a perverse sense of curiosity.

If you’ve paid any attention to the media today, you’ve probably heard that they went and did it again! They just had number 17!

Here’s what the Associated Press had to say about it:

It’s a girl — again — for the Duggars. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar welcomed their 17th child, and seventh daughter, into the world Thursday. … Jennifer weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces and arrived five days after Michelle’s due date.

That’s because she was trying to avoid coming out. “No! Not that family! Send me to North Korea! Send me to Darfur! Have me born and abandoned in the woods to be raised by a pack of wolves! Just don’t make me a Duggar!”

Less than 30 minutes after giving birth, the Duggars already were talking of having more. … “We’d love to have more,” Michelle said, adding that the girls are outnumbered seven to 10 in the family.

Stop! Stop! Do you have OCD? They don’t have to come out even!

“We love the ruffles and lace.”

As I explained in an earlier article, Jim Bob and Michelle put the girls to work doing all of the domestic chores. If you’re having trouble keeping the house clean, you can always hire a maid!

All the children — whose names start with the letter J — are home-schooled.

Apparently their home schooling never got beyond the tenth letter of the alphabet.

Jennifer joins siblings Joshua, 19; John David, 17; Janna, 17; Jill, 16; Jessa, 14; Jinger, 13; Joseph, 12; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 9; Jedidiah, 8; Jeremiah, 8; Jason 7; James 6; Justin, 4; Jackson, 3; Johannah, almost 2.

No! Ginger is spelled with a G! Some of those names are pretty obscure. I think they’re bumping up against the end of their Great Fundie Names for Baby book.

Did you see how they cheat on the naming? If there’s some really good name they want to use, such as David or Anna, they just stick a J-name in front to make it a double! I bet Jim Bob thought up that trick himself.

“We are just so grateful to God for another gift from him,” said Jim Bob Duggar, 42, a former state representative.

Most people are satisfied with smaller gifts from God, such as a beautiful sunset or rainbow.

“It actually went fast,” [Michelle] said. “I guess once I started progressing, it went within 30 minutes.”

If you do something 17 times in a row, you’re bound to get good at it.

Final Notes

The Duggars have been featured on several programs on cable’s Discovery Health Network. The next special, the Duggar Family Album, is scheduled to air next month, Jim Bob Duggar said.

I don’t get that channel. You folks will have to watch it and come up with your own snarky comments.

Among the “fun facts” listed on Discovery Health’s Web page devoted to the Duggars: A baby has been born in every month except June; the Duggars have gone through an estimated 90,000 diapers, and Michelle, 40, has been pregnant for 126 months — or 10.5 years — of her life.

The Discovery Channel has an odd sense of fun.

From Unfairly Balanced comes this:

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