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  • patoo
    patoo Member Posts: 5,243
    edited July 2009

    Well PK, you'd be warped too if you had gotten bc from opening the car windows instead of closing them when you stopped to gas up the car.  I just loved the smell of gas fumes!

    Never knew that aboutgreen m&m's - Hmmmmmm, no wonder...

  • pk0199
    pk0199 Member Posts: 49
    edited July 2009

    Now there is the warped sense of humor we all love!

    Seriously though, when I was first diagnosed, I think it was someone on this board said the reason one gets BC, is simply, because we have breasts. We could blame many reasons on why, it still doesn't explain why one woman over another, but for me, that is the reason I am staying with. Now, if we go back to this thread, I am going to have to vote for black jelly beans. No one likes them so I have always taken it upon myself to eat all of the poor deserted black jelly beans, look what it got me!

  • patoo
    patoo Member Posts: 5,243
    edited July 2009

    No, no, no - don't tell them we have breasts.  They might just believe that is the cause and then where will they put all that research money?????

    Hey, I also liked the black jelly beans - PK, you're copying me again!!!!!

  • Rachel_BC
    Rachel_BC Member Posts: 679
    edited July 2009

    dk- yes I used the bandaids too to hide the nipples and "weather report" 

    I didn't bite my nails, but my boyfriend bit them for me...

    love the black jelly beans too :) 

    it's just a step to the right... 

  • dkhancock1948
    dkhancock1948 Member Posts: 181
    edited July 2009

    Maybe we're on to something.  I liked black jelly beans, too.

  • gmp300
    gmp300 Member Posts: 196
    edited July 2009

    OMG  I wore band- aides  on my nipples too!  Especially when I went swimming! Or it was cold and breezy out!  Maybe pushing the nipple in caused BC!  Well now I don't have to worry about that now!

  • OG56
    OG56 Member Posts: 377
    edited July 2009

    I have done it all.... However, I am certain it is because I swallowed all the gum, wax lips, teeth and mustaches at halloween, candy dot's on paper, black jelly beans and lots of other yucky things (: I also had the very first Barbie ever made I got her on my 5th birthday.

  • dkhancock1948
    dkhancock1948 Member Posts: 181
    edited July 2009

    I was 13 when I got the first Barbie ever made.  I forgot about that.  So me too, I had a Barbie. They sure look a whole lot different when they first came out, didn't they?

  • dreamwriter
    dreamwriter Member Posts: 678
    edited July 2009

    I was feeling done in, couldnt win.  Id only ever.... before..... (You mean shes a )  (Uh huh).

    But now Ive tasted love and I want more.....

    Toucha toucha toucha touch me.... I want to be horny.....

    I carried, the toast, rice, umbrella, bell, toilet paper.... it was really fun.  The dubies were going up and down the rows.  I took part too.  I admit it. And Tim Curry was HOT.

    Got his albums but they disappeared.

  • Rachel_BC
    Rachel_BC Member Posts: 679
    edited July 2009

    I had the spray water bottle and matches...

     There's a light.... 

  • BooBee
    BooBee Member Posts: 288
    edited July 2009

    Someone needs to share the green M&M thing with the MOJO thread.  Do you think they'll get our humor?

  • bettysgirl
    bettysgirl Member Posts: 645
    edited July 2009

    probably not- if getting our mojo back was that simple the thread would have to stop.....AND with all the BC ladies around green M&M's would be an endangered species!!

    gas fumes??/say it isn't so!!! I liked the smell too.

    NOPE don't like black jelly beans. just loved (and still do) chocolate covered rasins and bridge mix

    MAYBE-it;s cause i've been known to wear most of my new clothes before washing them first!!

    .

  • reen
    reen Member Posts: 45
    edited July 2009

    BURN THE BARBIES!!! 

    I hate black jelly beans.  Nipples, "weather report." lol 

  • patoo
    patoo Member Posts: 5,243
    edited July 2009

    Could it be because I sometimes peeled nail polish off instead of using that chemical nail remover?  Perhaps the chemicals in the nail remover would have killed the bc cells?

  • lassie11
    lassie11 Member Posts: 468
    edited July 2009

    uh oh - I always go for the black jelly beans! Who knew?

  • shockedat39
    shockedat39 Member Posts: 5
    edited July 2009

    Oooh!!! I love this thread...

    My theory is Dippity Doo Hair Gel.  Nothing that evil green color can be good for you.  I was a Jersey girl in the 80's and every day was a Dippity Doo Day!!!  It took 20 years to travel through my hair follicles and down to my right breast.

    I wonder if I should submit this theory to WebMD?  They can add that to the "List of reasons that it's my fault" :) 

  • bettysgirl
    bettysgirl Member Posts: 645
    edited July 2009

    Dipperty Doo Hair gel would get my vote also...in addition we would HAVE to mention green Prell also.....

    I also peeled off the nail polish on a regular basis!!!

    Add to the list toxic work environments....kids who seem to have no brain....and work weeks that are FAR TOO LONG!!! LOL

  • patoo
    patoo Member Posts: 5,243
    edited July 2009

    Yes, long work-weeks go right along with housework as being hazardous.

  • bettysgirl
    bettysgirl Member Posts: 645
    edited July 2009

    i THINK holding in sneezes caused my cancer!

  • patoo
    patoo Member Posts: 5,243
    edited July 2009

    Or - holding in the other end!!!!  (PK, that ones for you!  Laughing)

    May have been that "gold" jdwelry we hung around our necks, on our wrists or fingers that turned green as soon as sweat hit it! 

  • pk0199
    pk0199 Member Posts: 49
    edited July 2009

    Patoo, are you insinuating (?sp) that I am anal? Hmm, okay maybe a little but I can assure you I do not have any problems letting my sneezes out the other end! I live in a household full of men, you either join them or die of suffocation! he he

    Also Patoo are you insinuating that the jewellery that I wear is not real gold? I can assure you it must be, it cost me a whole dollar out of the gumball machines, not that cheap stuff that only costs a quarter! Gonna have to come down and kick your butt soon!!! Have a great weekend everyone.

  • patoo
    patoo Member Posts: 5,243
    edited July 2009

    Oh, the tears!!!  You made my day.

  • jillyG
    jillyG Member Posts: 21
    edited July 2009

    I got Breat cancer from MAUI!!!!!!!  Hear me out.........we went to Maui with another couple who we are good friends with, she and I are both 33 and are otherwise healthy.......we both got diagnosed with grade 3 BC within a year of our trip.....coincidence, I think not. lol.    My hubby claims it was Maui.  We're both doing great, but I'm afraid to go back now haha. 

  • pk0199
    pk0199 Member Posts: 49
    edited July 2009

    Jilly say it isn't so, we leave for Maui on the 21st! It is our first trip there. Maybe because I have already had bc I will be okay.

  • Rachel_BC
    Rachel_BC Member Posts: 679
    edited July 2009

    betty- I have a saying... if its covered in chocolate or deep friend, I'll probably eat it.

    reen- I agree, burn the barbies, and don't forget Ken with no hair, Ken with fuzz, and Ken with hair, Skipper, Francie and Tammy.  Didn't everyone call it "weather report"?

    shocked, my Dippity Doo was pink, so maybe that's why it's my left boob....

    and also Hair So New

    Maybe it was trying to make all those hairdos with the suds from Prell?  Breck? 

    pk- roflmao join em or die of suffocation... well its a family trait here... and we never serve beans...

    jilly- maui, me too! 

  • dreamwriter
    dreamwriter Member Posts: 678
    edited July 2009

    Weather Report?  Not in California......  however we refer to that at Headlights.

  • jillyG
    jillyG Member Posts: 21
    edited July 2009

    pk0199........awit a sec, all three of us have lived/do live in Calgary....maybe it was Calgary, not Maui lol.  Have a great trip there, we absolutely loved it and there is no place like it. 

  • bettysgirl
    bettysgirl Member Posts: 645
    edited July 2009

    well darn- Now i scratch Maui off my list of things to do....

    I was actaully thinking of breck today also....

    I WOULD blame it on iced sweet tea, grits and hoecakes BUT that would take some of you northern ladies out....

    Rachel- I'm with you chocolate and deep frying make everything good...MMMM gotta love those fried green tomotoes!!!

    I was also ADDICTED to the smell of Hawaian Tropic...just loved to sit and smell it!!!! One sniff and it takes me back years to better days....

    I had my share of cheap jewelry too..(still do!!)

    Sorry Rachel- I don't remember dippety doo being pink....it if was that can't be it cause you know PINK is our color!!! (NOT!!!!)

  • pk0199
    pk0199 Member Posts: 49
    edited July 2009

    Jilly, has to be Calgary, I am originally from (whispering this) Edmonton, shh don't tell anyone.

  • BooBee
    BooBee Member Posts: 288
    edited July 2009

    Speaking of gum ball machines......??????

    Betty, Jilly and Pk....you're killing me.

    With holding farts - Yes

    Wearing clothes prior to washing - Yes

    Cheap jewelry - Yes

    On-call 7 days a week (long work weeks) - Yes

    Swallow nail clippings or even biting my nails - Hell no!! {Body Shiver}

    Farting freely - Yes

    Stifling farts - Yes

    Stifling sneezes - who doesn't?

    Farting in the car with the windows rolled up - Yes

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