…all hell breaks loose.
He eats them!
— Captain Obvious 
… you will be finding Altoids for the next week, and a sticky & minty 1-year-old immediately.
— effika
…quickly learn the Heimlich Maneuver
— Ryan
… they’ll be some curiously strong diapers in your future.
… your DOCTYPEs become <!DOCTYPE HTML>, nothing else! What’s with the DOCTYPE?
— Hieu Hoang
What kind of man checks out another man’s DOCTYPE?!
— Ryan
I was reading his “30 days to a more accessible weblog” series back in June 2002, and day6 poked me to look around. That page was the first thing in my sight.
And I’m 1-year-old, and those Altoids *are* healthy, for all :)
— Hieu Hoang
… the result is a life spent shunning spicy foods. (All part of the “Scared Bland” program.)
and possibly
… the child grows up to invade Chile (provided the daddy first pays for a baseball team).
— bjkeefe
1. He starts eating them — they’re candy.
2. He starts crying — they’re curiously strong.
3. He continues eating them — they are candy, you know.
(I cheated: This happened with my boy when he was around one and a half.)
“they’ll be some curiously strong diapers in your future. ”
^ winner.
The DOCTYPE is HTML 5. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-doctype
— Mark
the first child with “good” smelling breath will be born!
— Camtron
>>your DOCTYPEs become [!DOCTYPE HTML], nothing else! What’s with the DOCTYPE?
Doctype declaration [!DOCTYPE HTML] is part of upcoming WHATWG HTML 5 specification.
— Saravanan
The child dumps the Altoids down the drain and uses the tin as a toy car.
… you sure hope he doesn’t smoke the contents.
— Mat
ouch
— -brian
Though these comments are highly mixed (and stray from the post subject matter), it’s likely you’ll never return to the comments at fiddlerelf so I’ll just post them here:
Hey Mark, I’m curious. What made you decide to migrate your site to HTML 5, which is still a working draft and, as of yet, unsupported?
I suppose however, that the only aspect of migration was literally adding <!DOCTYPE HTML>
— Ryan
It’s the beginning of a long stretch of experimentation.
— Mark
Judging from the two toddlers in my household, the answer is: “Shay shay shay shay shay shay dah-eh!”
[Look, father, it makes a pleasing noise when I shake it!]
…hilarity ensues.
— Jeremy Dunck
You can bet they will be lost forever!
— Julie
what are Altoids?
When I was 1 it was soil and cowpats….
makes’ it talk.
— J-chot
hand > altoid > mouth > tears > finger > eye > more tears
— Amy
The kid will have fresh breath the rest of his life : )
— Julie