"Girlie Secrets" - Questions only Women Can Answer

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  • CoolBreeze
    CoolBreeze Member Posts: 4,668
    edited February 2012

    100%

    I wish I'd seen this thread earlier, how funny you are!!!! 

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2012

    Welcome, Cool Breeze. Toss in a few questions of your own!

  • angelsister
    angelsister Member Posts: 474
    edited February 2012

    Roach clips?????!!!!!! You guys rocked didn't you? Q. What happens to a nursing mom when any baby cries?<

    ps my dad was a ploiceman so i had to roll up my skirt on the way to school too.
    Q. What did grandma's say about red shoes?>

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2012

    A: Crying babies cause your milk to let down. It's a weird feeling!

    A: No clue what grandma said about red shoes. Pray tell us!

    Q: How does the doctor warm the speculum before a pelvic exam?

  • angelsister
    angelsister Member Posts: 474
    edited February 2012

    A. Only prostitutes ever wore red shoes!

    A. Hopefully he holds under warm running water

  • apple
    apple Member Posts: 7,799
    edited February 2012

    i have 3 sets of reddish shoes.. my favorite being the red Danskos with white sparkles on them..  5 if you include sandals.  there's something about living in Kansas.

  • GramE
    GramE Member Posts: 5,056
    edited February 2012

    This may date me again -- What is the caution about patent leather shoes?

    Answer:   Undies can be seen because of the reflection.   

  • AussieSheila
    AussieSheila Member Posts: 647
    edited February 2012

    My 8yr old son came home from best friends house next door and told me that they had found a sleeping bag for a mouseSurprised  So stupid me asked what it looked like...........anybody here know his answer?

    Sheila.

  • apple
    apple Member Posts: 7,799
    edited February 2012

    a tampax pad wrapper?  Boy,  I bet he thought he was funny Aussie.

    I remember the patent leather shoe warnings.. as it one could really see the reflection.  In those days, we all wore saddle shoes.  I wish I had a pair now.

  • angelsister
    angelsister Member Posts: 474
    edited February 2012

    I love red shoes too. I still call them my floozie shoes tho! This isn't english (as we dont have labour day) but what colour shoed aren't you supposed to wear after labour day?

  • angelsister
    angelsister Member Posts: 474
    edited February 2012

    What are saddle shoes? Like with a t bar?

    haha i just got the kansas joke! Bit slow today x
  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited March 2012

    cynsister, it's white shoes (after Labor Day).

    According to tradition, what role reversal could women take advantage of, on Feb. 29th?

  • Denise2730
    Denise2730 Member Posts: 648
    edited March 2012

    You can ask a guy to marry you.

  • Denise2730
    Denise2730 Member Posts: 648
    edited March 2012

    Saddle shoes are black & white. If I could figure out how to post a picture I would.

  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 5,324
    edited March 2012

    Ah...saddle shoes, penny loafers and desert boots!  

  • GramE
    GramE Member Posts: 5,056
    edited March 2012

    Anyone know what they called them "bobby socks"?   I do not

  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 5,324
    edited March 2012

    According to wikipedia:

    The term “bobby socks” appears to date to around 1927, right around the period when it became fashionable and acceptable for women to display their ankles. The “bobby” in “bobby socks” is a bit of an enigmatic figure, as there is no clear explanation for the origins of the name. Some researchers have suggested that it may be related to the “bobby pin” which was in vogue during the same period.

    Which, of course, leads us to the question:  why "bobby" pins?!  Sometimes, Wiki isn't very helpful! 

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2012

    My husband had no clue how a doctor would warm a speculum, so that's a good question. I wonder if guys know what bobby pins are?

    Anybody around in the 70's know what a "twiggy" was? For whatever reason, that's what my mom called the hair bands with a metal gather in the middle and a ball on each end. my friends moms all called them "boing boings." Do they still even sell those?

  • marjie
    marjie Member Posts: 1,134
    edited March 2012

    OH NO!! I'm a man Yell

  • DivineMrsM
    DivineMrsM Member Posts: 9,620
    edited March 2012

    Here's a link to a photo of Saddle shoes.  We also called them saddle oxfords.

    Dr. Martens Rafi Saddle Shoe - White/Black Smooth - Free Shipping & Return Shipping - Shoebuy.com

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2012

    Hi, Margie: That's the point of this - to eliminate the questions that women can't answer. Tell me which ones don't work for you, and I'll get them changed.

    :)

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2012

    I admit there's a total USA bias in my questions, and a bias towards the era in which I grew up. I'll work to fix that.

    Can everybody answer the speculum question?

  • hrf
    hrf Member Posts: 3,225
    edited March 2012

    I have no idea about the speculum question.

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2012

    hrf: They warm it up in the sink by running warm water over it. Have you ever had a pelvic exam, or a PAP smear? Where they put the metal (or plastic) speculum inside of you?

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited March 2012

    seems we all know what a speculum is though..

    how about book titles?

    Anne of Green ______

    Pippi ______________

  • GramE
    GramE Member Posts: 5,056
    edited March 2012

    I know the book titles...   

      

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2012

    Definitely know those :)

    Q: What happens if you cry in waterproof mascara?

  • AussieSheila
    AussieSheila Member Posts: 647
    edited March 2012

    Sleeping bag for a mouse is......................a.....................condom!

    Man next door was a bit feral.............thought it was funny to leave Playboy mags lying around.......and opened, not used, condoms to educate young boys.

    Sheila.

  • apple
    apple Member Posts: 7,799
    edited March 2012

    bobby pins.. hair pins to pin back bobs.  the cutest haircut ever and why i wish i had hair again.

    Pippi Longstocking and Anne of G.G.  were a couple of my favorite books ever.  I just loved to read.  I was the oldest of many kids and my job was to watch them.. I took them to a library twice a week in the summer and would get out my allowed 4 books each time, so I read 8 books a week... plus a few more. 

    We had a contest at my school to see who had read the most books over the summer and I told them I had read 108.. ( a few extra from the shelves at home, like Lives of the Saints).  I would sit in the backyard on the lounge swing thing.. lock the gates of the yard and let the kids play, reading all the time.

    So, when I went up to get my award in my saddle shoes, still prepubescent, my 6th grade teacher.. said " Mary is a Liar!  There is no way she could have read 108 books" and gave the award to another Mary"  Boy was I mad.  I saw her years later (she was a nun.. and quite elderly then.)  She said "You were always my favorite student").

     I told her that  I liked her hair that was hand dyed, which she used to have covered up with a nun's veil.. what a drag to have to wear one of those. 

    This was back in the days of washing one's hair with raw eggs and vinegar rinse and ironing it on an ironing board.

    Remember the smell of Prell? 

    peace and love, apple - aka, Mary Magdalen
    Diagnosis: 4/10/2008, IDC, 5cm, Stage IV, Grade 3, 4/9 nodes, mets, ER+, HER2+

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited March 2012

    didn't they suspend a fake pearl in a bottle of Prell for a while?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWvsJL9TD_s

    I am so not old enough to remember that commercial but I do!

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