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Dude... I totally just painted 2 of our light fixtures that I was just telling people look JUST like boobs!!! Seriously... I am not a fan, but at least now I have a small reason to be proud... or amused by them. :)

http://cozylittlecave.blogspot.com/2009/10/blue-light-blue-fur.html

This is a REALLY common style- anyone else notice the extreme likeness to the female form??

Just a quick correction, being that it's awareness month and all, that those of use with mastectomies do not, in fact, have boobies.

I definitely knitted a boob just like that for my sisters friend last christmas... only it was a lot less pink.

I know that I am in the minority, but I find it so sad and unfortunate that women use the terms "boobs" and "boobies." They mean "stupid" and "stupid people" respectively, do they not?

Jean: a few sites about word origins note:

"Boob" is a 1950's shortening of "booby", which in the 1930's came from "bubby". Linguists aren't sure, but "bubby" may derive from the German "Bübbi" which means 'teat'.

In 1347, when the bubonic plaque ravaged Europe, one of the symptoms of the plaque was called bubos or boobos which was a swelling of the lymph nodes, hence swelling of the chest can be referred to as boobs.

Very interesting; thank you, Gregory!

Wow, Gregory, I've always wondered that. My MIL always says "You're such a booby," meaning you're a wimp or you're being stupid. It always makes me flinch.

i'm glad AT has a sense of humor!

Cozy little cave as soon as I read your post I knew what you were talking about. I had the same fixture when I moved in this house.

Can't really get much cruder, methinks.

crude? i think more kitchy...lighten up a little.

it could be MUCH, MUCH cruder...

Wow, how completely tasteless. Surprising to see this on the site.

Yeah, Mo86, seriously... breast cancer is sooooooo tasteless.

This post was surprising but I found it great, given its purpose. Some of the items are beautiful in form, and others are just cute. I don't see the tastelessness/crudeness. What's so tasteless about body parts?

Um, I thought the pillows were tops of cupcakes. HA! Yum.

My (almost) 3 year old will be really into this... he calls them "beebos" though...

Inspired topic. Doubly inspired knitting, anyone that can knit better than I (thats everybody!) has my utmost respect. Crude? the breast cancer death rate; 40'170 this year in the US alone. 192'370 new cases. and less than 1 in 7 of us will get it. 18 comments including mine, thats two and a half of us who potentiallu have Breast Cancer to look forward to. If we all check ours right now our "BEEBO/BOOBIES", maybe one less death.
Thats the coolest thing ever if you ask me..
Crass?! Get a grip.
*statistics from American Cancer Society 2009.

I agree with Jean. Regardless of the etymology, the term is low-class, IMO.

Also agreeing w/ladymantle and mo86 -- these products are low-class as well, as is Werbler's glib assumption that we all are possessed of breasts.

The underlying message is of course important and worthwhile, but could have been presented in a much more enlightened and respectful manner.

Then there are those people who call them "girls"! (Do they tell men to get their girls checked?? Men get breast cancer, too.)

How about saying ... come on, you can do it ... "breast"!

My yes, that word "boobies" is so very tacky.

I prefer "gazongas" myself.

Jeez, people, lighten up. Good (and fun) post on an important topic. Thank you.

Class is overrated.

Thank you for this post. My grandma had a mastectomy. Sometimes she'll say things like, "Oh, I'd give my right tit for a piece of that pie...oh wait! I can't!"

They say laughter is the best medicine. I say if she can joke about it, everyone else can lighten up a little.

Mirandabee- I can think of nothing that is less enlightened or more disrespectful than rejecting language because of its use by a social or economic class. It borders on bigotry, and I thought that we as a society were finally beginning to move beyond this nonsense.

And, Jean, I would like to point out that the post used the term 'breast' as well as the term 'boobies'. So, yes, clearly they can do it.

Please use the correct term, breast.

Hooters, melons, jubblies, beebos, girls, tits, and yes, gazongas (thank you, STH). Whatever you call them, the point of the post is you should check them regularly. My paternal grandmother died of cancer in the late 60s which either began or ended as breast cancer and I am very lax in check my own...pair. This is a well-timed reminder that I need to do it more often.

I like the term hooters, myself as the word makes me think of hooting in laughter.

Mpls.. Your pc high horse is teetering.

i have a feeling we'll see the first three on Regretsy.

My cousin's wife and her daughter have both had bilateral radical mastectomies with reconstruction. The daughter then had to have bariatric surgery to stem estrogen production in fat. The cousin's wife had previously had a complete hysterectomy and ovariectomy, so she was not even producing estrogen when diagnosed with the breast cancer!

She produces no estrogen but can produce some great breast jokes! I haven't been there and thus wouldn't dream of it.

Wow- that post produced some interesting comments - whatever you call them, they're at risk. I'm so sorry for those readers who have had mastectomies - and I know too it can be controversial as retailers (like me) do profit from the October pink campaign. Well, actually, my company doesn't - we're giving 20% back of all pink product sales to the American Cancer Society in the name of a friend who survived breast cancer, and her father who so sadly did not. YES MEN GET BREAST CANCER TOO. I think we should all just cuddle up and give each other regular exams in the the chest area.

I gave my left boob, tit, breast whatever you want to call it, to breast cancer earlier this year and endured many months of chemo and radiation on top of that. 36 years old and no family history. Who cares what you call them, just get them checked - men and women. Lighten up people....If I didn't joke about it every once in a while I don't think I would have survived.

Then there are those people who call them "girls"! (Do they tell men to get their girls checked?? Men get breast cancer, too.)


Hah! Very true and a good point! A few of the guys I know refer to their testicles as "the boys", so I'm ok with calling my breasts "the girls"...which I do.

"I think we should all just cuddle up and give each other regular exams in the the chest area."

JanePennells for the win!

Seaside- PC? High horse? I was simply saying there's nothing wrong with the word 'boobies'. How is that PC? It's kinda the opposite.

Yeah for boobies, self-checks, etc.

But really, I'm posting to thank the above poster for just now introducing me to regretsy. I'm dying laughing.