# Chatting with Grandma about fluoride and gay folks **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 25, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatting-with-grandma-about-fluoride-and-gay-folks/231037 "2004-02-25T04:03:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatting-with-grandma-about-fluoride-and-gay-folks/231037/21 "2004-02-26T13:32:45Z")
A fun story Inky. I love the Thalidimide link in her reasoning. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatting-with-grandma-about-fluoride-and-gay-folks/231037/22 "2004-02-26T14:34:40Z")
Ya know?..I’ve NEVER seen a gay with bad teeth… hmmmm… NOW it all makes sense! \ ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatting-with-grandma-about-fluoride-and-gay-folks/231037/23 "2004-02-26T16:31:07Z")
> [@](#): > > Great. They’re not just gay, they’re flipper gay. You are obviously familiar with Myrtle Beach 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatting-with-grandma-about-fluoride-and-gay-folks/231037/24 "2004-02-26T20:05:44Z")
I don’t know the name of the comedian who originally said this, but it was too damn funny! He tells this little story about how his brother outed himself in front of the whole family during Thanksgiving dinner. After the general uproar died down, he says, "Grandma just said, ‘Why do you have to be gay? Can’t you just find a nice girl and f\*\*\* her in the a\*\*?’ " :eek: My grandma was like Egyption Royalty on the subject (Queen of DeNial) since my uncle “got the gay” and she would never acknowledge it. Yeah, Grandma, he just never dated, hung out in SF alot and died of “lukemia”. :rolleyes: As for the floride theory: One more reason to avoid the dentist! ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatting-with-grandma-about-fluoride-and-gay-folks/231037/25 "2004-02-27T02:14:09Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Tell granny to read the article more closely. Flouride doesn’t make you gay, it makes you _Communist._ And what would, exactly, the difference be? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatting-with-grandma-about-fluoride-and-gay-folks/231037/26 "2004-02-29T20:34:58Z")
OH this is great - you people havew some lovely grandparents. Not fiar! I want one! 🙂 Hmm, I have pretty bad teeth, wonder if I should be thinking of sort of branching out. ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatting-with-grandma-about-fluoride-and-gay-folks/231037/27 "2004-02-29T22:33:13Z")
> [@gatopescado](#): > > As for the floride theory: One more reason to avoid the dentist! Or, as Archie and I call him, the Tooth Fairie! ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatting-with-grandma-about-fluoride-and-gay-folks/231037/28 "2004-03-01T06:33:00Z")
I loved my great-grandma. I remember my mom and I meeting her in a tavern. She was in her late 80’s, drinking a beer, and playing euchre with some of her friends. At one point I asked my mom how lesbian’s had sex. She laughed and I was embarrased, and then she told my that my great-grandma asked my grandpa (her son) how gay men had sex. He said “just think about it, ma” and then, in a very knowing way, she said “oh, I see.” ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatting-with-grandma-about-fluoride-and-gay-folks/231037/29 "2004-04-02T18:59:40Z")
It’s worse than we suspected. The government did tests in the '50s and Thalidomide even works on metal. [birth defect in aluminum](http://www.padeye.net/thalidomide.jpg) I don’t know how far it goes. I mean it looks pretty gay to me. * * * “Dude, you kissed a girl, that is _so_ gay.” - Jimbo Jones ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatting-with-grandma-about-fluoride-and-gay-folks/231037/30 "2004-04-02T19:20:13Z")
> [@Padeye](#): > > It’s worse than we suspected. The government did tests in the '50s and Thalidomide even works on metal. > [birth defect in aluminum](http://www.padeye.net/thalidomide.jpg) > I don’t know how far it goes. I mean it looks pretty gay to me. > > * * * > > “Dude, you kissed a girl, that is _so_ gay.” - Jimbo Jones Lesbian is more accurate. The thing is known as a Goblin… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatting-with-grandma-about-fluoride-and-gay-folks/231037/31 "2004-04-02T19:40:24Z")
> [@MonkeyMensch](#): > > And what would, exactly, the difference be? 😉 Why do you think the call commies “pinkos”? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatting-with-grandma-about-fluoride-and-gay-folks/231037/32 "2004-04-02T19:46:35Z")
> [@gatopescado](#): > > I don’t know the name of the comedian who originally said this, but it was too damn funny! He tells this little story about how his brother outed himself in front of the whole family during Thanksgiving dinner. After the general uproar died down, he says, "Grandma just said, ‘Why do you have to be gay? Can’t you just find a nice girl and f\*\*\* her in the a\*\*?’ " Kind of reminded me of that Sarah Silverman joke that goes something like this… “My niece is 7 years old. she’s the cutest thing. She came home from school the other day and said, ‘guess what. . . I’m a lesbian. . .oh, don’t worry. I don’t hate men and I’m not going to cut my hair short or anything. . .I just love eatin’ pussy.’” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatting-with-grandma-about-fluoride-and-gay-folks/231037.md?page=1)