# What the hell is with pregnancy message boards?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [November 23, 2004, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293 "2004-11-23T16:18:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
**Page:** 4
### Author:  [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2004, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/61 "2004-11-26T06:57:08Z")
> [@Winnie](#):
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> I was always partial to posters who created threads describing their cervical mucus in great detail, and asking people if they thought it was fertile mucus or not. Oh. My. God.
> [@Shodan](#):
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> Link?
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> Regards,
> Shodan
No, I think the term you’re looking for is: **Band Name!**
Tonight on MTV: Fertile Mucus…Unplugged.
::flees desperately::
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### Author:  [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2004, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/62 "2004-11-26T12:51:32Z")
> [@Eve](#):
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> Everyone on _most_ message boards are idiots. You’re just spoiled from having been _here_.
Eve, goddess, you are right, as always.
I have only perfunctorily checked some of these boards and decided that participating wasn’t even remotely worth it. Whatever questions were not answered by my doctor and the few books that I’ve read/am reading I have asked here and got intelligent answers.
By the end of this pregnancy I would have used up my $14.95 (or whatever it is).
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### Author:  [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/63 "2004-11-26T17:21:14Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#):
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> So.
> Does this mean that all those bottle tab pull thingies I’ve save are for naught?
No. I once saw a book, that was written in the seventies, with instructions on how to make a shirt or jacket out of them.
I quickly added that book to my “Big List of Reasons Why the Seventies Sucked”.
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2004, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/64 "2004-11-26T17:32:23Z")
> [@Muad'Dib](#):
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> No. I once saw a book, that was written in the seventies, with instructions on how to make a shirt or jacket out of them.
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> I quickly added that book to my “Big List of Reasons Why the Seventies Sucked”.
That would be [Pop Topping!](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0801962277/qid=1101490308/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-2376829-4919116?v=glance&s=books) by one Pop Top Terp. Truly one of a kind. 😉
Robin
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2004, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/65 "2004-11-26T17:53:41Z")
> [@RickJay](#):
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> I just never would have gussed that, because I am Mr. Clueless Z. McFuckwit, and I’ve managed to go my whole life not noticing what pregnant women look like!
Hiya Clueless! And how are the little Fuckwits?
😃
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/66 "2004-11-26T18:50:46Z")
> [@Marley23](#):
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> Hiya Clueless! And how are the little Fuckwits?
Spaztard is great, just failed seventh grade. And little Slapnad is the worst player on his hockey team! Mrs. McFuckwit and I are so proud.
(Scary thing is, those names ain’t much worse than the ones documented on Baby’s Named a Bad Bad Thing.)
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/67 "2004-11-26T19:34:12Z")
And how about the twins, Sheetstain and Shitstain?
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### Author:  [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2004, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/68 "2004-11-26T21:23:24Z")
I do have to say fairly good things about the adoption boards I’ve been on. Perhaps it is the lack of hormones. Perhaps because 15 year olds don’t adopt. Perhaps its because these people need to be self confident and intellegent enough to pass a home study - which weeds out the people who didn’t graduate from high school - and no one gets real far forging their husbands name on adoption paperwork in order to “trick” him into a baby. But the adoption boards I’ve been on have been really good.
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### Author:  [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2004, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/69 "2004-11-27T04:48:21Z")
I left one board because I couldn’t stand the kudos all the idiot posters kept giving our resident knocked up sixteen year old.
No sweetie pie I damned well do not want to discuss my pregnancy with you. I’m thirty two years old, gainfully employed and happily married. The person who deliberately fathered my child is not my baby daddy or my boy friend. He’s my husband of seven years.
I do not want to read about your adventures in Welfare Land or how evil your mommy is because she’s disappointed in your nor do I want to hear that you aren’t sure exactly who fathered your poor child.
You want to know what I really think about your pregnancy? I think you should take the pre-natals, go back school and give the baby up for adoption. Yes I know not all teenaged mommies suck. But most of them do. Given your lousy communication skills and willful blindness to decent advice you’re well on way there.
Go find a pregnancy board for idiots and leave us nice responsible adult alone.
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### Author:  [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-with-pregnancy-message-boards/276293/70 "2004-11-27T23:39:27Z")
> [@](#):
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> Originally Posted by RickJay
> Mr. Clueless Z. McFuckwit
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> > [@Antigen](#):
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> > I just had to jump in and say that is the absolute **best** name ever. 😃
It’s my favorite Charles Dickens novel.
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