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March 03, 2003
Pay my pain
Since my depression continues essentially unabated, I have decided to put it to work. From now on, I am Feelin' Bad For Breast Cancer.
I am looking for sponsors, so if anyone has a dollar or two to spare for this very worthy cause, please drop them my way. Every hour that you pay me to feel bad is another hour of funding for breast cancer research.
Breast cancer is the number 2 killer of women in America, after I think lung cancer. I am not depressed enough to go after lung cancer though. I don't want to die of breast cancer and I don't want any of you to die of it either. And hey, even boys can get breast cancer (though obviously that is slightly more rare). So come on, kids. Think of my sad sad tears of sadness and open your wallets to rescue some boobs.
Posted by didofoot at March 3, 2003 09:58 AM
Comments
But how can you be melancholy for mammaries when there are whales to climb on, freezing cold sunsets to enjoy, and part II of Gurlz Gone Wild just there on the horizon?
Posted by: Jolie at March 3, 2003 10:41 AM
girl? what is up? you ok?
Posted by: tracy at March 3, 2003 10:49 AM
relax, gang, it's just hormones. it's like girl gone wild.
Posted by: didofoot at March 3, 2003 11:11 AM
The leading cuase of death for women is heart disease. Number 2 isn't breast cancer, it's malignant neoplasms (a specific way to say the bad kind of cancer). So breast cancer is in there, but it isn't the number 2 killer of women. You can find out more at the National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/default.htm
or you can look at the specific data for the leading causes of death in women on page 8 here
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr50/nvsr50_16.pdf
Posted by: gene at March 3, 2003 11:39 AM
ho ho ho. looks like somebody's bio teacher is a BIG LIAR! I'm not gonna believe a word he says from now on. oh, plasma membrane, mm-hmm, riiiiight.
Posted by: didofoot at March 3, 2003 11:41 AM
Speaking of professors that are big liars. A girl in my class just shared that her uncle (who is a professor somewhere) told her that he discovered that dinosaurs evolved from dragons.
Right now, Mrs. McLaughlin is trying to figure out how to tell a 7 year old that she can't trust a word her lying sonofabitch uncle says... I expect the tears to start rolling any second.
Posted by: Jolie at March 3, 2003 01:47 PM
according to some cursory research i did for a squelch newsflash a few years ago, breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women aged 40-55, and affects one in nine women in their livestime.
i had a high school teacher who told us that george washington was seven feet tall and that the banjo was invented by scottish immigrants who couldn't afford bagpipes.
Posted by: holohan at March 3, 2003 01:59 PM
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