# Aunt Flo Is Visiting **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 4, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946 "2008-04-04T16:49:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946/41 "2008-04-04T21:13:46Z")
Round where I grew up, we just “got my mate.” There was some debate about whether plungers or surfboards were the better way to deal with them. One of my friends was hugely embarrassed when her father unpacked the shopping and asked her how long she’d needed the pussy pillows. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946/42 "2008-04-04T21:15:49Z")
[QUOTE=Telperien] I found “falling off the roof” on a blog a few months ago. There are many, many euphemisms for menstruation at [this link](http://www.mum.org/words.html) at the Museum of Menstruation. [/QUOTE] There’s a Museum of Menstruation!?! This is going on my list, right next to the Roto-rooter Museum. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946/43 "2008-04-04T21:26:30Z")
Back in the innocent 1950’s, when they were around 12 & 10, David & Stephen King (yes, THE Stephen King) started a newspaper they called “The Rag.” It let to a lot of jokes they didn’t get until they were much older (Is The Rag going to be late this month? Is Stephen working on the Rag?). ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946/44 "2008-04-04T21:29:55Z")
I can’t come out tonight darling, I’ve got the painters in. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946/45 "2008-04-04T21:41:38Z")
Not a funny one, but I’m rather partial to the poetic: “moontime”. I’ll just go hug a tree now. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946/46 "2008-04-04T21:52:42Z")
[QUOTE=Yllaria] There’s a Museum of Menstruation!?! This is going on my list, right next to the Roto-rooter Museum. [/QUOTE] Yup. I’ve been wanting to go for ages. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946/47 "2008-04-04T22:03:19Z")
The MUM site is fascinating, but parts are rather horrifying. Such as the Lysol ads. (!!!) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946/48 "2008-04-04T22:24:29Z")
[QUOTE=HazelNutCoffee] “I’ve fallen to the Communists” has always been my personal favorite. [/QUOTE] Oh, I like that. We could combine it with one of the most interesting euphimisms I’ve seen here for female gentialia and tell people “ **Area 51 has fallen to the Communists**.” Then, you know, they’ll leave us the hell alone for a few days because people tend to suppose the insane are dangerous 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946/49 "2008-04-04T23:39:42Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Not a funny one, but I’m rather partial to the poetic: “moontime”. [/QUOTE] Funny you should say that, in Dominican slang it would be “having the moon”. ---
**Author:** ![Abraca\_Deborah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e495f1/32.png) [@Abraca\_Deborah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abraca_Deborah)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946/50 "2008-04-04T23:49:10Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Not a funny one, but I’m rather partial to the poetic: “moontime”. I’ll just go hug a tree now. [/QUOTE] Hmmm… I must admit I like this! This may be TMI, but I wear ‘Moon Pads’ which are cotton, washable pads that simply snap into place at the crotch of my panties. Very comfy, not sweaty or smelly, and are easy to care for. But, as I noted, that may be TMI, but I believe you Dopers are a pretty stolid bunch! When in high school we simply noted to each other that “George was here”. It really didn’t have a meaning other than “it’s that time of the month”. ---
**Author:** ![Sine\_Nomine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sine_nomine/32/513_2.png) [@Sine\_Nomine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sine_Nomine)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946/51 "2008-04-04T23:50:41Z")
One year in college I shared a dorm room with three other gals and our term was “gushin’.” One of my roomies wrote GUSHIN’ in huge, red letters on our mirror one time (it was funny when we were 18/19). Every female visitor we had got it immediately. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946/52 "2008-04-05T00:32:22Z")
I always mention Aunt Flo, or else say “paying the monthly bill.” ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946/53 "2008-04-05T00:36:43Z")
Heehee. “It’s shark week!” and “I’m at the end of my sentence” are great. Much like my fellow hippie chick **WhyNot** , though, if I have to mention it I usually just say, “New moon this week.” ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946/54 "2008-04-05T01:14:42Z")
From the onion article, this has long been my favorite euphemism ever: It’s ‘‘that time of the month’’ where I’m ‘‘not at my best’’ because ‘‘my vagina is bleeding.’’ ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946/55 "2008-04-05T01:59:04Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Not a funny one, but I’m rather partial to the poetic: “moontime”. I’ll just go hug a tree now. [/QUOTE] I sometimes ask my friend if she’s on her moon. She hates that phrase. ---
**Author:** ![PharmBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@PharmBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PharmBoy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946/56 "2008-04-05T02:09:57Z")
Time for crime scene sex… ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Star_to_the_Right)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946/57 "2008-04-05T02:10:06Z")
[QUOTE=Bambi Hassenpfeffer] I sometimes ask my friend if she’s on her moon. She hates that phrase. [/QUOTE] I hate you as well. ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Star_to_the_Right)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946/58 "2008-04-05T02:36:54Z")
Just to clarify, I’m the friend mentioned in Bambi’s post. Just in case anyone thought I was insulting him or something. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946/59 "2008-04-05T03:19:23Z")
If I’m commiserating to my friends, I will often state that “the moon hates me”. However, I picked up the phrasing “broken”, and several of my female friends have since picked it up. As in “Well, I’m finally broken.” “Sorry sweetie, but I’m broken.” My wife realized a while ago that super-feminists would probably find that incredibly offensive, but she didn’t give a crap. Love my woman! ---
**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946/60 "2008-04-05T03:30:17Z")
I like to say that I’m doing my monthly no-baby check. It keeps the bf from getting too ooged out and actually sounds positive to him. No babies! Yay! Then he remembers the _other_ side-effects. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-flo-is-visiting/443946.md?page=4)