# What Is The Purpose of Flashing Your Breasts For Beads?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-flashing-your-breasts-for-beads/212670>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 11, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-flashing-your-breasts-for-beads/212670 "2003-11-11T20:50:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-flashing-your-breasts-for-beads/212670/41 "2003-11-13T05:03:47Z")

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I’m guessing you go to the Jefferson parades, right whiterabbit? Or Slidell?

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**Author:** ![SunTzu2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@SunTzu2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunTzu2U)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-flashing-your-breasts-for-beads/212670/42 "2003-11-13T06:31:01Z")

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Quoted Isabelle:

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> Just seems silly to flash for cheap beads. If I am going to flash… boy I want hard cash!

So how much cash are we talking about Isabelle?

In Shreveport we have about 200,000 people show up for each of our 2 major parades along our riverfront. We have a 1/4 acre spot on the parade route roped off for our private Mardi Gras party. We have about 200 friends and clients there enjoying food, drinks and our own festivites including a live band. One of the most valuable things on the parade route is a port-a-potty!

laise le bon temp roulle!

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**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-flashing-your-breasts-for-beads/212670/43 "2003-11-13T14:29:01Z")

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Yep, I’m talking about the big Westbank parades – I forget which exactly, I’ve only done the Mardi Gras thing once. I’m aware that there are many parades that are much less tame than these. I went to some of them last year. It’s just that there’s a wide variety of parades, everything from very tame to incredibly wild, but nobody knows about the tame ones until they live here. I know I didn’t!

I’m not saying the TV stuff doesn’t happen, only that it’s not the only thing that does. And I’m not up for those sorts of crowds. They’d be hauling me out in an ambulance having a crippling panic attack or something!

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**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-flashing-your-breasts-for-beads/212670/44 "2003-11-13T18:44:57Z")

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Beads?? You mean, you’re _supposed_ to get something for flashing your tits?? DAMN it!

Stupid Hellizona!! I’m never flashing my ta-tas again!!

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**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-flashing-your-breasts-for-beads/212670/45 "2003-11-13T18:57:06Z")

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Why did it say I’m Nines again??

Odd…

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