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Diogenes [TotalFark]
2012-01-26 10:57:31 AM
I used the "the rabbit died" line the other day and no one knew what I was talking about.
 
LesserEvil [TotalFark]
2012-01-26 11:13:47 AM
s11.lucyphotos.com

Never let her on top....
 
mercator_psi
2012-01-26 11:24:33 AM
From TFA: Some just wish to experience the sheer joy of peeing on something scientific.

I wonder if Stephen Hawking's wheelchair is waterproof.
 
Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf
2012-01-26 11:50:07 AM
Marge, we found the reason you've been throwing up in the morning.

What is it doc, what is it?

Congratulations!

D'oh!
 
kth
2012-01-26 11:51:44 AM
Last time I took a pregnancy test we were singing "Kill the Wabbit" on the way home from the CVS.

In our house we call it "having a date with a stick."
 
Smidge204
2012-01-26 12:15:27 PM
Some just wish to experience the sheer joy of peeing on something scientific.

As a man, I can totally relate to this.
=Smidge=
 
Mayhem of the Black Underclass
2012-01-26 12:15:27 PM
When my wife and I started trying she would buy those sticks buy the gross, as if they helped her get pregnant somehow, at least she knew how to get pregnant, that left me a very happy, very lucky, boy for quite some time. Well, one day I was taking a shower, and I hear her screaming from the other room, "It's a bug, it's a bug" I'm bare ass naked I jump out of the shower and grab for a shoe. I ran across the house into the other bathroom and I said "where? Where is it." She points the pregnancy test at me and says, beaming, "It's a plus! It's a plus!"
She had no idea why I was standing there soap dribbling into my eyes with an Adidas sandal raised above my head. So I related the words I heard to her, we had a bit of a chuckle and she's used the phrase "It's a bug" to describe each subsequent pregnancy.

/Next one is due in one week. Getting close now.
 
zipdog
2012-01-26 12:27:22 PM
The best bang for the buck in pregnancy tests are the $1 tests at Dollar General. Sure, you have to pee in a cup and use a dropper, but it's much better than the $10 tests at drug stores.
 
BKITU [TotalFark]
2012-01-26 12:36:11 PM
Diogenes: I used the "the rabbit died" line the other day and no one knew what I was talking about.

I was 19, and driving my car to my then-girlfriend's house one night. The engine temperature gauge on that car never worked -- it was always pegged at the low end.

Anyway, I was driving up an incline, and the engine started sputtering. It was an old, gutless Volkswagen with a diesel engine, and it was a cold night, so this was kind of common. I pulled into the far right lane to lug my way up the hill... but it kept getting worse. Soon, I noticed that steam was coming from under the hood.

Fark.

Pulled to the side of the road, popped the hood, and saw that the radiator hose had burst. The engine was overheated. I was stranded.

So, I hiked my way to the nearest call box (this was well before the days of widespread cell phone usage, ya whippersnappers!) to call my dad to arrange for a tow, and to call my girlfriend to let her know I couldn't make it over.

Now, my dad is a wonderful guy, but he tends to overreact to strange things. I knew that telling him that I needed a tow was going to end in a lecture (since I was a broke college student and he'd have to front me the money), so I devised a way to soften the blow.

"Dad, you know I was going to see ________ tonight, right?"

"Yeah."

"Well... the Rabbit died."

(long pause)

"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING! YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN USING PROTECTION! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU GOING TO DO NOW, GODDAMMIT?!?"

"Dad!"

"DON'T 'DAD' ME! HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU TO USE YOUR FARKING HEAD AND THINK OF YOUR FUTURE! YOU'RE TOO SMART TO MAKE A STUPID MISTAKE LIKE THIS!"

"Dad!"

"WHAT?!?"

"My car, Dad. My VW Rabbit. It died. I'm on the side of the road and I need a tow. Can you help?"

"..."

"Dad?"

"I thought you meant...."

And it went on from there.

/I got the tow.
//I miss that car.
///That pile of crap got 50mpg and had a second fuel tank.
 
Six Inch Pianist
2012-01-26 12:40:20 PM
zipdog: The best bang for the buck in pregnancy tests are the $1 tests at Dollar General. Sure, you have to pee in a cup and use a dropper, but it's much better than the $10 tests at drug stores.

There is no reason to ever use the expensive ones. The cheapo ones are just as likely to detect an early pregnancy (as long as you get one described as an early pregnancy test) as the super expensive ones. Hell, my doctor's office told me the cheapo ones are the ones they use when they do pee tests in the office.

...and if you need a digital screen to say 'pregnant' or 'not pregnant' to read the test, you probably shouldn't have kids anyway.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark]
2012-01-26 01:19:05 PM
BKITU: Diogenes: I used the "the rabbit died" line the other day and no one knew what I was talking about.

I was 19, and driving my car to my then-girlfriend's house one night. The engine temperature gauge on that car never worked -- it was always pegged at the low end.

Anyway, I was driving up an incline, and the engine started sputtering. It was an old, gutless Volkswagen with a diesel engine, and it was a cold night, so this was kind of common. I pulled into the far right lane to lug my way up the hill... but it kept getting worse. Soon, I noticed that steam was coming from under the hood.

Fark.

Pulled to the side of the road, popped the hood, and saw that the radiator hose had burst. The engine was overheated. I was stranded.

So, I hiked my way to the nearest call box (this was well before the days of widespread cell phone usage, ya whippersnappers!) to call my dad to arrange for a tow, and to call my girlfriend to let her know I couldn't make it over.

Now, my dad is a wonderful guy, but he tends to overreact to strange things. I knew that telling him that I needed a tow was going to end in a lecture (since I was a broke college student and he'd have to front me the money), so I devised a way to soften the blow.

"Dad, you know I was going to see ________ tonight, right?"

"Yeah."

"Well... the Rabbit died."

(long pause)

"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING! YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN USING PROTECTION! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU GOING TO DO NOW, GODDAMMIT?!?"

"Dad!"

"DON'T 'DAD' ME! HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU TO USE YOUR FARKING HEAD AND THINK OF YOUR FUTURE! YOU'RE TOO SMART TO MAKE A STUPID MISTAKE LIKE THIS!"

"Dad!"

"WHAT?!?"

"My car, Dad. My VW Rabbit. It died. I'm on the side of the road and I need a tow. Can you help?"

"..."

"Dad?"

"I thought you meant...."

And it went on from there.

/I got the tow.
//I miss that car.
///That pile of crap got 50mpg and had a second fuel tank.

Cool story, bro! And I mean it. It reads like a joke.
 
BKITU [TotalFark]
2012-01-26 01:40:13 PM
Diogenes: Cool story, bro! And I mean it. It reads like a joke.

Thanks. Totally true story. I don't know if my dad has ever forgiven me for that troll. I probably took a year off his life just to save myself a 10 minute browbeating.
 
zipdog
2012-01-26 01:49:22 PM
BKITU: Diogenes: I used the "the rabbit died" line the other day and no one knew what I was talking about.

I was 19, and driving my car to my then-girlfriend's house one night. The engine temperature gauge on that car never worked -- it was always pegged at the low end.

Anyway, I was driving up an incline, and the engine started sputtering. It was an old, gutless Volkswagen with a diesel engine, and it was a cold night, so this was kind of common. I pulled into the far right lane to lug my way up the hill... but it kept getting worse. Soon, I noticed that steam was coming from under the hood.

Fark.

Pulled to the side of the road, popped the hood, and saw that the radiator hose had burst. The engine was overheated. I was stranded.

So, I hiked my way to the nearest call box (this was well before the days of widespread cell phone usage, ya whippersnappers!) to call my dad to arrange for a tow, and to call my girlfriend to let her know I couldn't make it over.

Now, my dad is a wonderful guy, but he tends to overreact to strange things. I knew that telling him that I needed a tow was going to end in a lecture (since I was a broke college student and he'd have to front me the money), so I devised a way to soften the blow.

"Dad, you know I was going to see ________ tonight, right?"

"Yeah."

"Well... the Rabbit died."

(long pause)

"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING! YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN USING PROTECTION! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU GOING TO DO NOW, GODDAMMIT?!?"

"Dad!"

"DON'T 'DAD' ME! HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU TO USE YOUR FARKING HEAD AND THINK OF YOUR FUTURE! YOU'RE TOO SMART TO MAKE A STUPID MISTAKE LIKE THIS!"

"Dad!"

"WHAT?!?"

"My car, Dad. My VW Rabbit. It died. I'm on the side of the road and I need a tow. Can you help?"

"..."

"Dad?"

"I thought you meant...."

And it went on from there.

/I got the tow.
//I miss that car.
///That pile of crap got 50mpg and had a second fuel tank.

Like the time I was out in the backyard with my mom and I told her I was smoking pot. She had this horrified look on her face, then I lifted the lid off the smoker to reveal a clay plant pot.
 
stainedglassdoll [TotalFark]
2012-01-26 02:52:06 PM
www.cavcomics.com
 
pute kisses like a man [TotalFark]
2012-01-26 05:07:16 PM
Diogenes: BKITU: Diogenes: I used the "the rabbit died" line the other day and no one knew what I was talking about.

I was 19, and driving my car to my then-girlfriend's house one night. The engine temperature gauge on that car never worked -- it was always pegged at the low end.

Anyway, I was driving up an incline, and the engine started sputtering. It was an old, gutless Volkswagen with a diesel engine, and it was a cold night, so this was kind of common. I pulled into the far right lane to lug my way up the hill... but it kept getting worse. Soon, I noticed that steam was coming from under the hood.

Fark.

Pulled to the side of the road, popped the hood, and saw that the radiator hose had burst. The engine was overheated. I was stranded.

So, I hiked my way to the nearest call box (this was well before the days of widespread cell phone usage, ya whippersnappers!) to call my dad to arrange for a tow, and to call my girlfriend to let her know I couldn't make it over.

Now, my dad is a wonderful guy, but he tends to overreact to strange things. I knew that telling him that I needed a tow was going to end in a lecture (since I was a broke college student and he'd have to front me the money), so I devised a way to soften the blow.

"Dad, you know I was going to see ________ tonight, right?"

"Yeah."

"Well... the Rabbit died."

(long pause)

"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING! YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN USING PROTECTION! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU GOING TO DO NOW, GODDAMMIT?!?"

"Dad!"

"DON'T 'DAD' ME! HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU TO USE YOUR FARKING HEAD AND THINK OF YOUR FUTURE! YOU'RE TOO SMART TO MAKE A STUPID MISTAKE LIKE THIS!"

"Dad!"

"WHAT?!?"

"My car, Dad. My VW Rabbit. It died. I'm on the side of the road and I need a tow. Can you help?"

"..."

"Dad?"

"I thought you meant...."

And it went on from there.

/I got the tow.
//I miss that car.
///That pile of crap got 50mpg and had a second fuel tank.

Cool story, bro! And I mean it. It reads like a joke.

it was funny, but i had to wikipedia what "the rabbit died" meant

btw, the rabbit died either way

FWiki:

It is a common misconception that the injected rabbit would die only if the woman was pregnant. This led to the phrase "the rabbit died" being used as a euphemism for a positive pregnancy test. In fact, all rabbits used for the test died, because they had to be surgically opened in order to examine the ovaries. While it was possible to do this without killing the rabbit, it was generally deemed not worth the trouble and expense.
 
BassChild [TotalFark]
2012-01-26 06:16:30 PM
pregnancy test (new window)
 
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