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Maris
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03-28-2002

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 7:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was watching tv tonight and saw a commercial for a drug called Premarin. About twenty years ago I worked for the company that developed the drug and because of that I know where the name came from. The drug's base was:

pregnant mares urine

a little bit of trivia.

Nickovtyme
Member

07-29-2004

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 7:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Truths

GREAT TRUTHS THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED:

1) No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats.
2) When your Mom is mad at your Dad, don't let her brush your hair.
3) If your sister hits you, don't hit her back. They always catch the second person.
4) Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.
5) You can't trust dogs to watch your food.
6) Don't sneeze when someone is cutting your hair.
7) Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time.
8) You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.
9) Don't wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts.
10) The best place to be when you're sad is Grandpa's lap.

GREAT TRUTHS THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED:

1) Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.
2) Wrinkles don't hurt.
3) Families are like fudge...mostly sweet, with a few nuts.
4) Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
5) Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.
6) Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT GROWING OLD

1) Growing up is mandatory; growing old is optional.
2) Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.
3) When you fall down, you wonder what else you can do while you're down there.
4) You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster.
5) It's frustrating when you know all the answers but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.
6) Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
7) Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.

THE FOUR STAGES OF LIFE:
1) You believe in Santa Claus.
2) You don't believe in Santa Claus.
3) You are Santa Claus.
4) You look like Santa Claus.

SUCCESS:

At age 4 success is . . not peeing in your pants.
At age 12 success is . having friends.
At age 16 success is . . . having a drivers license.
At age 35 success is . . . having money.
At age 50 success is . . having money.
At age 70 success is . . . having a drivers license.
At age 75 success is . .. . having friends.
At age 80 success is . . . not peeing in your pants

Vacanick
Member

07-12-2004

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 8:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wonderful words of wisdom Nick! Thanks for sharing!

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 6:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes Maris, my doc put me on Premarin. Someone told me it was made from urine and if I didn't believe them to bust one open and smell it. I did and it did yukkkkkkk!

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 9:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That's only one of the reasons why I am on something else!

Maris
Member

03-28-2002

Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 1:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I remember when I would see literature on it, I would think no way would I swallow horse piss. Then my next thought was, who on earth thought of that.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 7:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It kept me off hormones for several years after my doctors were urging it, thinking that there is no way I was going to ingest horse piss.

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 11:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lately, I'm so desperate to stop the hot flashes and night sweats I'd DRINK the dang horse piss! My doctor does not believe in hormones and no amount of over the counter stuff helps at all. I hate this. How long does this crap last anyway?? I know years but how many years?

Terolyn
Member

05-06-2004

Monday, June 27, 2005 - 7:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here is an interesting link regarding Premarin

http://www.premarin.org/

If you scroll down toward the end it goes on to explain the PMU Farms and how the horses are kept, and that some foals are sent to slaughter after being delivered.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Monday, June 27, 2005 - 7:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The horse piss gave me the sweats AND the hot flashes! I told my doctor this and he looked at me like I was crazy. I quit taking it and they stopped.

Twinkie, mine lasted a good five years.

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Monday, June 27, 2005 - 7:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Kristy. I guess I can only hope I don't commit suicide or homicide over the next few years. LOL

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Monday, June 27, 2005 - 8:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I can only say a prayer that you don't Twinkie cause I came damn near it several times.

Metoo
Member

02-22-2005

Monday, June 27, 2005 - 8:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Five years? I have to put up with this for 5 years? Twinkie - I'll drink with you. Please pass me a glass.

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Monday, June 27, 2005 - 8:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
<handing Metoo a glass> Kristy, I've come real close with the DMV lately. Do they really want me to come down there after THEY messed up my license??? I hope I don't end up on the nightly news.

Metoo
Member

02-22-2005

Monday, June 27, 2005 - 9:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My patience has become very short lately over just about everything. I just want to slap somebody. What OTC products have you tried?
My doctor won't put me on hormones either.

(can I get a refill?)

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Monday, June 27, 2005 - 9:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Procream, by Dr. John Lee -> Check here for more information.

Now what I want to know is, who put the invisible button on my toilet seat and the hidden cameras in the bathroom so that at the very moment I'm disposed the phone rings? Just kidding, but I know people who have installed phones in their bathrooms for that very reason.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Monday, June 27, 2005 - 10:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I gave up on trying to outlast the hot flashes when a (much older) lady at work remarked that she had had them for ten years. I had hot flashes and night sweats for ten solid months and therefore no sleep. Of course, this was in the halcyon days before that study came out about three years ago saying you were going to DIE immediately if you took hormones. I took horse piss for a while but now take a synthetic.

In the old days, you were fighting the doctors to keep them from putting you on hormones.

Cablejockey
Member

12-27-2001

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 7:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have wondering about omens, you know things that you come across that are supposed to mean good or bad luck. My mother was a great beleiver in this kind of stuff, no umbrellas were allowed to be opened inside, no hat tossed onto a bed, orthree cigarettes lit from one match. I saw a dead bird on my front lawn the other day and immediately thought, 'this would mean something to my mother', but she is no longer alive so I can't ask. Do any of you know of any omens of luck? Has anyone actually had something happen after seeing any of these symbols?

Kaykay
Member

01-21-2004

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 7:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ichy right palm means you will "come in" to some kind of money. If you say rabbit on the 1st day of the month before noon, you will have good luck for that month. If you drop a knife on the floor, a man will be coimg for a visit, a fork is a woman and spoon is a child. <these are all as per my Grandmother - God rest her soul.

Cablejockey
Member

12-27-2001

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 10:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, I do remember hearing about dropping the spoon knife or fork from my aunts--I haven't thought about that in years--thanks.

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 10:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Keeping with Kaykay's palm thing, the right palm means you will get money, the itchy LEFT palm means you will lose money.

The left ear ringing means someone is saying or thinking something bad about you, the right ear ringing it that someone is saying/thinking something good.

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 11:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't believe in superstitions and neither did my parents so I don't know what any of them mean.

Ddr
Member

08-19-2001

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 3:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
....just went grab some poison ivy in my RIGHT hand......

Nickovtyme
Member

07-29-2004

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 6:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My cousin always had this thing that if you're eyes itched...it meant somebody you knew was having sex.

Hey...during the spring everybody I know must be doing it.

Yesitsme
Member

08-24-2004

Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 11:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL Nick!

The ears ringing thing....if my mother's ears rang she would all of a sudden say "Quick, give me a number"....and then she would count it out and see what letter of the alphabet corresponded with that number and the first name she could think of beginning with that letter would be the person thinking about her. We would just roll ours eyes, but I really think she believed it.