Linda were you a Joan Rivers fan too?

To expand on clearwaters' comment, even though we have had no woman president.....yet.......there have been 'boobs' in the Oval Office off and on for decades!!

There's freedom of expression here, of course.

I don't know why a grown woman would adopt objectifying, chauvinistic slang when referring to the 'sexual' parts of her body.

Do you have little pet names for your ears or your knees?

Doesn't it evoke derisive laughter if a grown man has a name for his penis?

Boobies, titties, the girls, I don't see what's wrong with it. There are much more offensive words I hear almost every day, like the R word which literally makes me want to punch the user in the face every. single. time. Even though they know how offensive the word is to me. So, I'll continue to use the word boobs to describe my tits.

Annie D. Can't forget Boob Tube for the name of everyday inanimate items. I Googled the phrase to see what came up. Apparently the tube tops that were popular in the 70's are referred to as boob tubes also.

As for size. Yep, never understood the desire for "oversized" breasts. I would gladly trade for smaller for comfort and being able to wear a button down shirt without having to go two sizes bigger just so I can button. As "they" say, anything over a handful is really wasteful.

The cartoon made me remember my mom dressing my grandmother. You have to remember that she was born in 1889 before bras and had several children. Her breasts hung below her waist and were basically empty bags. I was horrified when I was growing up and I kept getting bigger that mine would do the same. Luckily they stopped. Like Annie D. I keep wondering where the minds are of the girls/women who want to have enlargements. Completely flat I can see but nothing bigger.

I know there was a post about replacing a "boob" light....now if the poster used "breast" light...I think that would sound asinine...right?? Just sayin' ;-)

Fun bags/the girls.......And I also and enjoying this thread!

Lindsey, hilarious cartoon! I'm taking a copy of it to my mammography center. They have a whole wall of cartoons and will really love this one.

I am so enjoying this thread!!

A local colloquialism is Jugs. However, I don't have jugs by any stretch of the imagination - more like teacups.

Mine are demitasse.

I started college right after the Summer of Love (1969 for you youngsters). Being smack in the middle of hippie country in California the young girls were loosening up on their apparel and, I suppose, their moral compasses. In the dorm we guys talked about girls who could pass the "pencil test" for perkiness. That is they had just enough weight and volume to hold a pencil under their boobs. It didn't take long for this discussion to escape the confines of the male population, and the girls took it to a whole new level. It took a hilarious turn during a drunken road trip to the beach. One of the girls held so many pencils that they had to come up with a new test. She started the "milk glass" test using the drinking glasses from our cafeteria. Had I not seen the pictures I would not have believed it. I guess I led a sheltered life.

Anyone remember Stephen King's Carrie? I don't recall if it was in the movie, but in the book, Carrie's mother referred to her breast as 'dirty pillows.'

I saw the movie, but don't remember that...but, then, I wouldn't. That was so many years ago. Dirty pillows, huh? :-))

In the 50s, bumper bullets on cars were nicknamed "Dagmars" for obvious reasons (if you knew who Dagmar was.

I've never understood why people get so worked up over a few letters put together. Must be a slow life to have to concentrate on simple words being "offensive" to them. I'm fortunate to have other things to worry about I guess.

While 'boobs' seems pretty innocuous, I disagree with Cynic and feel that some words can be offensive and one's life need not be 'slow' to feel that way. Some of the racial epithets are to me very offensive.

Thanks cynic...I never knew that!

I know when they put on front bumper protectors, they are called bras.

I think I've renamed mine Abbott and Costello. They make me laugh so hard I Cry. And things go south from there. (Apparently we are better off to go braless but my cup size doesn't allow that. :( :-).)

I don't use the word boob as a common practice. Though I do believe others have the right to use words as they see fit in general. I do believe we should listen to people who have a vested interest in whatever word it is but in general that's just the way it is. Language is ever-changing and who am I to dictate the change.

Plus according to linguists apparently I'm too old to do so. Children are often the makers of new language. And rightly so. They inherit everything after all including the language. We are not going to change anything by our dislike of things. :-(. I appreciate having others to commiserate with on the whole deal though:-)

This is a lexicographer arguing for making up new words and using them. I think she means including slang or what we call slang today.

https://www.ted.com/talks/erin_mckean_go_ahead_make_up_new_words/transcript?language=en#t-10204

As I continue losing weight my cup size is shrinking...than I looked down and realized I was forgetting to lift and tuck. Here I was blaming my RA for my knees hurting.

I was sort of outraged at first by this post. Probably because it came shortly after our Amazing Aunt Audrey's innocent sharing of her good news with her post.........So thank you everyone for making it so light hearted.

In high school, a well-endowed gal I knew called them her "front porch" :-)

I recall when touching the.. well many names... qualified as “first base”.

And ladies built like a brick house being a musical celebration.

LOL!!

Very funny!!

Honestly, this is a true story. My grandmother told of a time when she was very young. She was watching her mother breastfeed her newborn baby and pointed to the exposed breasts and asked "what is that?" Her mother answered "those are milk jugs." Some days later she visited her grandmother, who at that point was rather flat chested, and asked "Do you have milk jugs grandma?" "Of course I do" Where are they?" "In the pantry where they belong". "My Mama keeps hers inside her shirt". After some initial confusion, grandma set the girl straight, and the story is still passed around in the family, to great hilarity.

Basically, bras are "flopper stoppers". I shall pull this thread up when i need a good laugh. Thanks you guys.

I'm still laughing....

Flopper stoppers? I was told they were called "over the shoulder boulder holders" LOL

Unbound jugs ...

... ain't great fer joggin' ...

... do ya figger?

o j ... who lacks such a (possible) problem

Well..um..I doubt anyone would advise to give a child this thread to pick a name for their parts.

Neither would I give them this list, think it's from the UK.

https://www.curvykate.com/blog/101-words-for-boobs/

Just because I call my breasts "titties" when talking about them to someone other than a doctor...does not mean I didn't teach my child the correct name for her body parts. She is almost 38 years old now....I have no idea what she calls them now...but I am willing to bet, she knows the right names to use in the right situation.

Sorry, there's no way I'm reading that entire post. Most of us may agree that our body parts have more acceptable names, although some of them are not exactly correct, but acceptable. Breast is mammary, toe is a digit, etc.

We are just saying with the jokes, is that it doesn't matter. We will still use nicknames, like noggin, funny bone, bottom or keister or rear end, boobs, tootsies, etc.

I just searched the thread and I do not find any mention of "chesticals".

I literally said "on no" out loud when I saw this thread back up in the recents...LOL

Hmm I think a bunch of posts are missing from this! Did Chloecat ever come back?

always1stepb., me too, i was like UGH....

chi, i haven't seen her :(

I love this thread, so much fun! So much imagination!

Is having it show up again ...

... sort of like suffering a hangover ...

... for some of you?

ole joyful

I hope chloecat is just traveling and hasn't kicked us to the curb. I find her personality interesting.

She deleted her account.

I hope she will be back. Simply because others don't share your opinions especially something like this should not be reason to leave a community.

Is Chloebud not the same person? (Kavenaugh thread.)

sjerin, i dont think so. This Chloebud doesn't carry herself the same way.

The title of this thread caught my attention, and I skipped down to comment because I hate the word 'boobs' for breasts too.

Maybe because to me, the word has always meant a stupid, clownish person?