Lets conduct our own study on how we all got breast cancer
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But I loved Ovaltine. Still do, but I don't have any. No, it CAN'T be the Ovaltine!
Shirley
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I ate Twinkies....ever wonder about the shelf life of those things/?? Ahh, Twinkies in the morning......maybe one after lunch.
Now, here in the south, they fry them---ew. But, ladies.....it had to be the twinkies...and Barbie Dolls!
Jennifer
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Oh wait---what about Pop Rocks????
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Red and black licorice. What a deal. 2 for a penny.
Nicki
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I'm sure it was Fizzies. Anybody remember them? Just like Alka-Seltzer, but not quite as tasty.
Can't believe I liked those nasty things.
Lynn
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You guys are hysterical!!! I can't stop laughing. Although , I am alittle perplexed. I did eat the red wax lips and the little waxed bottles , but for some reason , I never had a barbie doll!! I had just about every facsmile there was , including tressy Ravdeb , I also had betty's beauty parlor and suzie smart. Maybe mine is barbie envy. Although , I am now wondering about lightening bugs!! All summer long , we would catch them , put'em in jars and smear the glowing bug butt on each other. I'm doomed... Wait , Maybe it was the go-go boots!?!
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Love this thread gsg. Thanks
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Easy bake ovens? Or maybe it wasn't the DDT, maybe BC is a virus carried by mosquitos. Who here hasn't been bitten?
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yeah ... easy bake ovens ... probably the "stuff" that was in those cakes and other things we baked in the easy bake ovens ...
how' bout TV dinners ... maybe it was caused by those ?? we didn't eat them very often - but they have to be included in the suspect list.
how 'bout the candy necklaces ??? anyone ever wear one of those ... and eat them - they just kept getting smaller and smaller ...
koolaid ???? we drank LOTs of that when I was growing up ... must have been some bad chemicals in the koolaid....
I love this thread ... I laugh every time I come to read more... GSG: thanks for starting this "study" !!
Doreen
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Love all these causes and laughing so hard at the moment. I used to pretend I was a dog and eat dog biscuits, a horse/sheep/cow and eat grass and sometimes I'd sneak into my father's veg garden and nibble at the cabbages - I was a rabbit then! So mine was probably caused by having an overactive imagination.
gb
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Oh, and as for the barbie connection - I used to stick pins in my barbie doll's bottom! (I think it was a reaction to being in hospital when I was 4 and having needles every day I was there).
gb
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I am very suspicious of the can of bacon grease kept on my parent's kitchen counter. They would actually put some in a frying pan and fry eggs in the stuff for breakfast. And baste the eggs with the melted grease to make sure none escaped. AND then we would have bacon with it. AND buttered toast. AND we actually liked it! (And weirdly enough - no one in our family was fat.)
I just realized - I hung tapestries in my bedroom and burned incense all the time. And I dared to hang posters that weren't politically correct that my parents hated. They always said I would pay! It had to be that.
OMG! And I had a barbie and a chatty kathy. And candy necklaces, red wax lips and wax soda bottles. And braces. And I made out in high school, alot! And I used dippity doo. What have we done to ourselves??!
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i didn't have a barbie dream house, so I made a "mod" apartment for my barbie & midge dolls using items scavanged from around the house.
table leaf = floor
camera = television
bandaid box = refrigerator
my dad's plastic athletic cup = swivel chair
you should have heard my mom when she saw the "chair." she washed my hands until they damn near bled. as far as i know, dad still has two intact cancer-free "boys", so i'm ruling out the athletic cup as the cause of my breast cancer.
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btw...you girls are cracking me up!
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i'm placing kleenex under the umbrella of suspicion. i used to stuff my bra with it.
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OMG...I just fell off the kitchen chair. I wrote Mrs. So-and-so on my notebook over and over and over again.... is that why I got BC? I can't believe this hasn't come up....0
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okay, okay...I think I've got it...
I chewed the wax lips and swallowed that gunk.
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gsg quoth:
"my dad's plastic athletic cup = swivel chair"
Okay - this one finally made me lose it!
You are such a hoot! I can't believe you were this crazy as a little girl too!
Lisa
who must confess that she wrote Mrs. M----- St. C---- all over her notebook too, until it changed to Mrs. B--- B------
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It doesn't matter WHAT we ate -- it's the fact that we ate it on those folding metal TV trays while watching "Kukla, Fran and Ollie". (Hmmmm...was that just a Chicago thing?) Well, maybe it was "77 Sunset Strip."
Binney
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All right ladies, I'm debunking the Barbie theory right now. Never had a barbie and didn't care for dolls at all. I did like stuffed animals though.
It must be the wax lips. LOL
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I've narrowed it down to that poster of Pat Boone I used to kiss. Or maybe the tissue that I stuffed my bras with.
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Hahahahahahahahahaha....athletic cup for a swivel chair.....hahahahaha
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Ahhhh, the aroma of paper fresh off a ditto machine.... I loved that smell, and kind of miss it. lol It smelled too wonderful to not be bad for us.
Cynthia
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Nah, I've narrowed it down to the frustration of necking and petting and STOPPING!!!!!!!!(always said I was born too soon for the sexual revolution!)
That has to be the one thing we all have in common!!
Ok, maybe swallowing gum, too. And maybe smelling the ink from the memo. machine.
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I think it was the big ole pom poms that we wore on our roller skates.
I refuse to blame the perfect Barbie for any of it.
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This cracked me up, you ladies are just to much. I know what caused my cancer now, it was tube tops & Bonnie Bell lip balm.
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The mimeograph paper mixed in with the rubber cement I had in my desk in school and made balls out of them and bounced them around the classroom..I believe that did it.
I'm wondering if the fact that I was not allowed to have a Ken doll to go with my Barbie Bubble hair do doll is the reason....
And doing jumping jacks in gym class with a training bra and my overdeveloped "girls" in 4th grade is a "for sure" cause.
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Sitting too close to the TV, everyone knows that. We were the first generation to fry our pending boobs. I use to watch the test pattern. But then again, it could have been french fries, being left-handed, I'm not, but that doesn't matter. Or not being left handed. And I still have a Barbie in my house! It came over one day with my Granddaughter and never went home.
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Dotti:
I think I can safely speak for most of us who came of age in the '70s that the frustration of necking and petting and STOPPING didn't cause our breast cancer. Yeah...we're gonna have to lay that theory to rest.
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Athletic cup = swivel chair = Priceless!!!
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