March 21, 2004

Doctors remove worm from woman's brain.
posted by homunculus 20 years ago
  • AVOID TRICHINOSIS -- cook pork thoroughly! And those of you who go barefoot outdoors in the SE US might wish to rethink wearing shoes.
  • (Via RealityCarnival.)
  • well that's the last time i ever sit down to read mofi while eating a snack of leftover s'ghetti. *gag*
  • Probably don't want to eat too much meat in Mexico, either. Sorry, just being snarky.
  • Why did I click on that link? Why?? And: Although Becerra seems to have kept a good attitude
  • Can you imagine having to stay concious through the whole process?!!! All because of a worm?!!
  • ObCornyJoke: So that's what's eating into your thoughts!
  • ever since learning in biology classes about the various things that can burrow into the human body, or be ingested, and ultimately end up living n my brain, i just have to say: fer god's sakes, people, don't use people-poo to fertilize your fields or rice paddies, and wash your darn hands after poopin'!!! if you want a brain-worm, fine. but don't give me one through your own hygenic ineptitude. also, i'm thankful that i live in a part of the world where this is uncommon enough to be newsworthy...
  • I hope the doctor let her keep it so she could put it under her pillow and get a quarter from the dead-parasitic-brain-worm-carcass fairy.
  • Wasn't Bush in Mexico near the start of his term?
  • KHAN!
  • if it had been in the tequila it would have been more culturally suitable, i assume.
  • Years ago when I was staying with my 'rents in Western Washington, my cat came in from her evening lounge under the raspberry bushes. All of a sudden we heard her scuffling around in the kitchen. She was frantically trying to scrape one of those enormous Washington slugs off her belly. The look on her face was priceless. That woman must have nerves of steel. If it were me, I'd be doing what my cat did. GAAAAAHHHHHHHH GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!!!
  • mmm, pork tacos.
  • MonkeyFilter: GAAAAAHHHHHHHH GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!!! *curls up in corner, rocking