MMMBaby

Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du
Yeah
Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du
Yeah

How will you tell if the person making those noises (lyrics of MMMBop, if that helps) is the dad or baby. Such is the first thought upon the news flash of the birth of John Ira Shepherd Hanson.

Today's objet d'eBay, a collection of fan crap for the long forgotten — hardly known even then — boy group, Hanson, is part of the second thought upon hearing the new daddy news: the sleep deprivation of having your own child might make you old (along with the other aspects of being a dad), but the stake in the heart of your youth is hearing about others' children.

In this case, new dad Zac, was also the baby of boy group Hanson — who knew they were still even touring (?) and, no, apparently not a lot of imagination in the Hanson family when it comes to band names.

So, does the news that the baby of a boy band had a baby depress you? Or has the senior memory thing already kicked in so that you can't even remember that you barely knew any part of this to begin with?

** Perhaps the only good news to take away is that now that he's had a kid, Zac is the same age as every other dad: OLD! **