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Breast Enlargement Contest Draws Fire
AP ^ | 1/3/05 | VICKIE CHACHERE

Posted on 01/04/2005 8:39:37 AM PST by kahoutek

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Radio giant Clear Channel Communications has come under fire from women's health advocates over a Christmas contest in which stations granted breast enlargement surgeries to women in four cities.

In the "Breast Christmas Ever" contest, 13 women were awarded the procedure after writing essays to the stations explaining why they wanted larger breasts. A Tampa station claimed to receive more than 91,000 entries.

Clear Channel said it had nothing to do with the contest and that it was a decision by local station managers to hold the promotion. The contest was aired on Clear Channel stations in Tampa, Jacksonville, St. Louis and Detroit.

The contest has drawn the ire of both the National Research Center for Women & Families and the National Organization for Women. NOW has urged its supporters to file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission against Clear Channel and its stations.

The controversy comes within months of Clear Channel paying a record $1.75 million fine to resolve indecency complaints against New York-based shock jock Howard Stern, Tampa radio personality "Bubba the Love Sponge" and others. The station formally agreed to "clean up its act," FCC Chairman Michael Powell said in June.


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To: exnavychick
Conspiracy Guy is trying to find out just what the wonder of wonderbras might be. Do these ladies ever eat a decent meal?


21 posted on 01/04/2005 8:50:28 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF LAW.)
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To: TXBSAFH
Drowning is not one of her major worries.

Sitting up may be.

22 posted on 01/04/2005 8:51:07 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic

You are so right.


23 posted on 01/04/2005 8:51:43 AM PST by TXBSAFH (Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

I'm sure you'd even look sillier than you'd feel.


24 posted on 01/04/2005 8:53:18 AM PST by dmz
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To: kahoutek

The Health Channel will air the ceremonies and the presentation of the "Booby" prize.


25 posted on 01/04/2005 8:54:37 AM PST by bert (Don't Panic.....)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Hey, some of us chicks are just skinny by nature. :) I have a really fast metabolism, apparently, because I have always been "undersized" lol, even as a small child. Doesn't stop me from eating like a horse, though. I have to slow it down, though. My last annual checkup, my cholesterol was 138...yikes!

FWIW, a guy I knew in the service was like that, too. He was very tall, very thin, and literally ate 4-6 sandwiches for lunch. He ate huge meals just to keep himself at the weight he was at. It was practically impossible for him to gain. Poor guy...he dreaded eating.


26 posted on 01/04/2005 8:54:41 AM PST by exnavychick (I'm no expert, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!)
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To: evets

Are they natural? It's kinda gross and she will be tripping over those things, before to long. Can you imagine the pressure on your back????


27 posted on 01/04/2005 8:55:24 AM PST by marmar (Even though I may look different then you...my blood runs red, white and blue.....)
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To: kahoutek

Oh brother! If the ladies want bigger ta-tas, and someone else wants to pay for them, then why is NOW even involved? I'd get bigger thingies myself... but I am already naturally big busted and I wouldn't be able to walk upright if they were any bigger.

The abortion ladies at NOW should leave our baby feeders (and the size of said baby feeders) alone and concentrate on real women's issues. (as IF they ever would...)


28 posted on 01/04/2005 8:56:46 AM PST by P-Chan Penny (I wouldn't be caught dead voting for a Democrat... unless I died in King County.)
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To: dmz

Agreed.


29 posted on 01/04/2005 8:57:58 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF LAW.)
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To: TXBSAFH
"Pictures?"


30 posted on 01/04/2005 8:58:11 AM PST by RS
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To: ken5050
How could a doctor do that and still have malpractice insurance not win the Nobel Prize?
31 posted on 01/04/2005 9:00:22 AM PST by OSHA (The only thing better than ZOTTING trolls is WHINER whompin!)
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To: Bon mots

Not the breasts!

These contests have been around for a while. Nothing new, just new, contrived outrage from NOW to kick off 2005. Why oh why do femininists want women to be ugly and flat chested?


32 posted on 01/04/2005 9:00:48 AM PST by Electrowoman
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To: exnavychick

I have a fast metabolism too. It has slowed since I turned 40 nearly 11 years ago but I can still eat like a horse, 6'2" 190. My daughter is 25 and weighs about 105 or so and she is 5'4". My son is 6'4" and 210 - 220.


33 posted on 01/04/2005 9:01:19 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF LAW.)
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To: P-Chan Penny

The abortion ladies at NOW should leave our baby feeders (and the size of said baby feeders) alone and concentrate on real women's issues.
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BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! I fell off my chair laughing at that. :)


34 posted on 01/04/2005 9:02:06 AM PST by exnavychick (I'm no expert, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!)
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To: kahoutek
The Winner!

35 posted on 01/04/2005 9:02:11 AM PST by speed_addiction (Ninja's last words, "Hey guys. Watch me just flip out on that big dude over there!")
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To: evets

She will probbaly want them removed someday. What about the stretch marks and excess skin???

She looks to be very attractive. Why did she mess herself up?????


36 posted on 01/04/2005 9:04:01 AM PST by superiorslots
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To: RS

"Girl with big thingies...

We are Ready to Do you now."

... Butthead in "Beavus and Butthead Do America"


37 posted on 01/04/2005 9:04:37 AM PST by P-Chan Penny (I wouldn't be caught dead voting for a Democrat... unless I died in King County.)
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To: P-Chan Penny

Whenever I hear women like yourself comment on their physical 'attributes' it's usually a complaint.......most aren't particularly happy about it.


38 posted on 01/04/2005 9:05:49 AM PST by kahoutek
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Well, the problem for many of us (guys) is that if we had 'em like that, we'd never go to work in the morning...


39 posted on 01/04/2005 9:05:53 AM PST by Nabber
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Almost the exact same thing for me. 29, 5'3", and (when not pg like now) anywhere between 95-100lbs. So you know what I mean. I just need to figure out how to keep it on without clogging up my arteries, lol.

You are about the same size as Mr. Ex, although he's finally at 200lbs now. :)


40 posted on 01/04/2005 9:06:43 AM PST by exnavychick (I'm no expert, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!)
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