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'Dead Rabbits & Other Historical Pregnancy Tests

mentalfloss.com — The earliest recorded “peeing on a stick” test comes from those innovative Egyptians. But between 1350 BC and the e.p.t. era, people used some creative methods to find out whether they were with child.

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  • fitqueenb, on 05/07/2008, -4/+2Never heard of peeing on grains.. that was a good laugh. Will not be testing that theory out though :-)
  • nickert0n, on 05/07/2008, -3/+1What I did is sleep with the the woman untill she didnt want to anymore, then I knew....
    There were going to be Brood Wars!
  • glasnostic, on 05/07/2008, -1/+11ok so that Elmer Fudd anthem "kill the wabbit" is actually about him trying to find out if his wife is with child?

    wow.. that brings a whole new dimension to that toon-opera.
  • wyzzerdd, on 05/07/2008, -1/+5Sounds like an interesting episode of myth busters.
    • jmas9, on 05/07/2008, -2/+6Ill volunteer for trying to get Kari preggers.
      • cdahlkvist, on 05/07/2008, -1/+6I think Grant may be more to your liking.
  • MaryCait, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2Also notable are the lists of historic birth control methods.

    Or "things people once shoved up there"
  • TheStooge1, on 05/07/2008, -1/+9My way of figuring out my wife was pregnant was the 3:00am foot in my back, propelling me out of bed because she craved chocolate covered french fries with the little colored candy sprinkles on top.
    Who needs EPT when you have THAT?
    • cha5e, on 05/07/2008, -1/+6Yeah, my wife has been eating a lot more pickles the past month or two. Like, entire jars of whole dill pickles. I'm very afraid.
    • KizardLing, on 05/07/2008, -1/+4Mine actually did the pickles & ice cream thing... Until then, I thought it was just a joke...
    • tHePeOPle, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1I recently gave my friend who's wife is pregnant, a book called The Dudes Guide to Pregnancy because of a similar story. That book is unbelievably funny.
  • zantos420, on 05/07/2008, -0/+4from the title i expected a 'dead rabbit insertion' to be an ancient form of a pregnancy test...
  • unicronband, on 05/07/2008, -1/+3"a speculating woman must urinate on wheat and barley seeds"

    If she had a yeast infection you've got yourself a recipe for some wheat beer!
  • Zippo, on 05/07/2008, -0/+5Reminds me of that commercial that's on TV these days...
    "The most advanced device... you will ever pee on"
  • michael43, on 05/07/2008, -3/+2Most diggers dont' need this information ( we're 80% nerds and 20% married), either way, nobody's getting any.
  • kslodic, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1Not that this pertains to the article, but on the vinyl version of Jawbreaker's Bivouac, there is an etching that says "what about the time we pissed on a dead rabbit in Mexico." The article headline just reminded me of it.
  • JackSrenton, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1"Any of them got the sand of the Dead Rabbits?"

  • gkiltz, on 05/08/2008, -0/+0We've come a long way!
    Technology rules!
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