# My Aunt Flo is visitng, or... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 30, 2001, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848 "2001-04-30T14:24:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2001, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848/21 "2001-05-01T00:55:12Z")
When I saw chuky I thought it said Chunky and I was really worried. So far I like the **hardygrrl’s** riding the cotton pony and **AudreyK’s** a visit from the cardinal. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2001, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848/22 "2001-05-01T03:33:23Z")
On the rag, but usually with an expletive thrown in. Riding the crimson wave is another one I’ve heard, but don’t use. Creaky, I hear ya. I loved not having my period when I was pregnant, and then not getting it again for a looooooong time after. Heaven. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2001, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848/23 "2001-05-01T03:56:54Z")
When I was in the Marines, this is what we sang as “Jodies” (running cadence songs) when we were out of earshot from civilians: You will know By the flow There will be no embryo When that time of the month rolls around. You can see By the pee There will be no bay-ay-by When that time of the month rolls around. You can tell By the smell That she isn’t feeling well When that time of the month rolls around. You can guess From the stench That she’s bleeding from her trench When that time of the month rolls around. It’ll be RAH RAH REE To the Kotex Factory When that time of the month rolls around. Well, hell. Don’t look at me like that. We were training to be killers. Creators of widows and orphans. Raisers of Hell, and Bringers of Death and Destruction. Besides, running in formation for twelve freakin’ miles demanded some sick humor. We weren’t the Boy Scouts. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2001, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848/24 "2001-05-01T04:37:21Z")
UncleBill… And to think I hesitated before posting “riding the cotton pony.” ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2001, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848/25 "2001-05-01T04:46:02Z")
Like the in the **stofsky** household, “that time of the month” is generally referred to as “green pill week”, for the inert green pills. ---
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2001, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848/26 "2001-05-01T05:11:08Z")
I’m a guy and all my guy friends liked to bitch about how they didn’t “get any” because the girl was “ragging.” ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2001, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848/27 "2001-05-01T06:04:52Z")
There is a big list of these terms (from many different nations) at the [Museum of Menstruation website](http://www.mum.org). > [@](#): > > You can see > By the pee What the…??? ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2001, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848/28 "2001-05-01T09:58:36Z")
This seems like it might be a good source of colorful descriptions. Ahh Dave, you’ve never failed to crack me up. [QUOTE] _The Kids in the Hall (Dave Foley)_ \*\*Hi, my name’s Dave Foley, and, uh, something you might not know about me is that … I have a good attitude towards menstruation. That’s right, I’m the guy! The guy with a good attitude towards menstruation! Oh, I know a lot of men are made uncomfortable by this monthly miracle. But not me. No, I embrace it. Embrace it the way the way some men embrace the weekend! Why I anticipate it the way a child anticipates Christmas! Did you know that, uh, in alot of native Indian cultures, menstruating woman were forced to leave the village, less they’re _powerful_ magic should overwhelm the Shaman? If I were Shaman, I wouldn’t be so competitive. I’d be more open and giving. I’d be a shaman with… a good attitude towards menstruation! 'Cause after all, what is it? a cluster of blood vessels, awaiting a fertilized egg. Providing a safe warm place for that egg to grow. And if a life does not occur, the whole thing is flushed away, and the cycle begins again. Now is that anything to be ashamed of or disgusted by? No, this is the nesting stuff of humanity! That’s why the woman I shall love will be able to menstruate as fully and freely as she desires. Even if her monthly flow should build in intensity to a raging rust colored torrent! An unbridled river of life giving blood flowing from between her legs! An awesome cataract plunging off the edge of our couch. I wouldn’t be fazed! No, no, even if coureur de bois would come up stream, battling the rapids, and singing a ‘jaunty song’! I would take no offense, rather I would ford across that mighty womanly river, and fetch herbal tea and Pamprin. And then I would mop her brow and admire her fecundity. For I…Have A Good Attitude…Towards MENSTRUATION! QUOTE] I also wanted to work a kiss my grits reference in here but oh well. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2001, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848/29 "2001-05-01T12:48:56Z")
A Native American term is “time of the flower,” and Stephen King used the expression “Is the moon full for you?” in Rose Madder. I like them both cause they are positive expressions. UncleBill, I started to sing your song and the Big Boss walked in. Tee Hee! ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2001, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848/30 "2001-05-01T12:55:29Z")
On the blob. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2001, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848/31 "2001-05-01T13:11:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zebra \* > \*\*When I saw chuky I thought it said Chunky and I was really worried. > > \*\* Interesting footnote to this: I was over at her house one afternoon, we were just sitting down to watch the Cubs play (me because I’m a fan, her because she had a crush on Brant Brown). Anyway, it was during those delightful few days that she has. She had disappeared into the kitchen for a minute, and as she walked back into the room, she stopped suddenly, and grimaced. I asked if she was okay. She replied, “Ooh…chunk.” And retreated into the bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2001, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848/32 "2001-05-01T14:00:25Z")
C3, and now everyone is talking about your monthly (re: you may want to start calling it dubya)😉 Riding the cotton pony: excellent! Cept I dont ride that myself. plugtime? ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2001, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848/33 "2001-05-01T15:04:53Z")
I call it Aunt Flo. My boyfriend calls it “blow job week”. ---
**Author:** ![x27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/7993a0/32.png) [@x27](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x27)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2001, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848/34 "2001-05-02T03:10:49Z")
Monthly Bill. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2001, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848/35 "2001-05-02T03:37:02Z")
We just call it “girl stuff” around here. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2001, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848/36 "2001-05-02T05:51:18Z")
Paying the monthly bill (my current fave). My dad says that back in the 40s, guys used to say that a girl on her period was “out of commission.” (No, I am not going to explain why we had such a conversation.) ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2001, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848/37 "2001-05-02T06:26:21Z")
Vanilla… That’s the term one of my best friends uses 🙂 As in…“Excuse me,gotta change the plug.” /hijack/ Being the leader of the Girls, it is my duty to keep track of each Girl’s cycle. I do it on my calendar at work…middle intial on the approximate day. That’s how I could tell one of the Girls she was pregnant before she guessed. /end hijack/ ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2001, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848/38 "2001-05-02T06:59:11Z")
“She’s at the end of her sentence.” ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2001, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848/39 "2001-05-02T14:22:00Z")
I hate the term “montly bill.” What exactly am I paying for? A word of caution: if anyone mentions the miraculous beauty of the gift of bringing a new life into this world, I’m gonna . . . Well, best leave that unsaid. ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2001, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848/40 "2001-05-02T15:17:16Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by MsWhatsit_ > My grandma told me that when she was a girl, they called it “jumping off the roof” so the boys wouldn’t know what they were talking about. “Jenny’s jumping off the roof today.” Oooooh. I likes it. Non-descript (compare to “on the blob”), pretty random (roof?) and a little surreal. I must only hope that I can remember this one for another three weeks. Thank you, **MsWhatsit**! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-flo-is-visitng-or/63848.md?page=3)