Like quite a few people on this board, I've got kids and I understand completely why it creeps people out.
Still there's always gonna be graveyard humor out there. Anytime there's a topic that's beyond comprehension, somebody will be there poking at it with a stick and laughing. Somehow that helps to take the magnitude out of it, not the importance mind you, just the magnitude. So it has it's place... perhaps this board is not it's place though.
All that being said, I have a custom-built, meticulously hand-etched poking stick in my possession... and it gets quite a bit of use in the right situations.