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The Official Friday Silliness Thread Explores Creepy Brain Stimulations (Did you see that???)
Reuters ^ | September 22, 2006 | Sully777

Posted on 09/22/2006 1:00:00 AM PDT by sully777

LONDON (Reuters) - Stimulating a certain area of the brain can produce a creepy feeling that someone is watching you when no one is, scientists said Wednesday. Swiss researchers made the discovery while evaluating a young woman for surgery to treat epilepsy...When they electrically stimulated the left temporoparietal junction in her brain, which is linked to self-other distinction and self-processing, she thought someone was standing behind her. If they repeated the stimulus while she leaned forward and grabbed her knees she had an unpleasant sensation that the shadowy figure was embracing her..."Our findings may be a step toward understanding the mechanisms behind psychiatric manifestations such as paranoia, persecution and alien control," said Olaf Blanke, of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, in the journal Nature...






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To: r-q-tek86

We used to do it: HTF, PTC - Hammer to Fit, Paint to Cover


241 posted on 09/22/2006 12:22:40 PM PDT by HeadOn (Pro Deo, Pro Familia, Pro Patria)
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To: Michael Goldsberry
I was going to mess with the html to put Guinness in there... but I answered every question truthfully and vola!

You Are Guinness
You know beer well, and you'll only drink the best beers in the world.
Watered down beers disgust you, as do the people who drink them.
When you drink, you tend to become a bit of a know it all - especially about subjects you don't know well.
But your friends tolerate your drunken ways, because you introduce them to the best beers around.
What's Your Beer Personality?

242 posted on 09/22/2006 12:24:10 PM PDT by r-q-tek86 (Snakes can't be taught to walk.)
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To: Toby06

Howdy Toby. What's happenin'?


243 posted on 09/22/2006 12:24:54 PM PDT by Auntbee (I have become comfortably numb.)
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To: Auntbee

BEE! How you doin', sweetheart?


244 posted on 09/22/2006 12:25:34 PM PDT by r-q-tek86 (Snakes can't be taught to walk.)
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To: r-q-tek86

Howdy, sweetie. Just been busy. Taking a few minutes to check out the OFST. How the heck are you?


245 posted on 09/22/2006 12:27:01 PM PDT by Auntbee (I have become comfortably numb.)
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To: sully777; All
If you like that, you'll LOVE this!
246 posted on 09/22/2006 12:28:29 PM PDT by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: r-q-tek86

Here's a shocker: I was Bud Light. Go figure.


247 posted on 09/22/2006 12:30:00 PM PDT by Auntbee (I have become comfortably numb.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts


"Oh dear, I believe I'm having a flashback."~~Hans Moleman
248 posted on 09/22/2006 12:30:56 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: llevrok

Who the hell lives in Texas and has never seen a cow or horse?


249 posted on 09/22/2006 12:31:57 PM PDT by BJClinton (What happens on Free Republic, stays on Google.)
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To: r-q-tek86

indeed


250 posted on 09/22/2006 12:32:24 PM PDT by BJClinton (What happens on Free Republic, stays on Google.)
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To: Auntbee

I've been good. Things got kinda busy around here so I haven't been able to play much.


251 posted on 09/22/2006 12:33:30 PM PDT by r-q-tek86 (Snakes can't be taught to walk.)
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To: secret garden; RockinRight; Yossarian; qam1
I'll see your Eric Johnson and raise you a Stanley Jordan's Stairway To Heaven
252 posted on 09/22/2006 12:36:37 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: Auntbee

Afternoon Bee


253 posted on 09/22/2006 12:37:27 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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A guy goes to the supermarket and notices a beautiful blond woman waving at him and says hello. He's rather taken aback, because he can't place where he knows her from.

So he says, "Do you know me?"

To which she replies, "I think you're the father of one of my kids."

Now his mind travels back to the only time he has ever been unfaithful to his wife and he says, "Oh no! Are you the stripper from my bachelor party that I defiled on the pool table with all my buddies watching, while your partner whipped my butt with wet celery???"

She looks into his eyes and calmly says, "No, I'm your son's math teacher."

254 posted on 09/22/2006 12:38:28 PM PDT by Heartlander
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To: nuke rocketeer

It's a gas.


255 posted on 09/22/2006 12:39:14 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: BJClinton
Who the hell lives in Texas and has never seen a cow or horse?

Ha! About 1/2 the people in Dallas I see when I am there. But that's OK. They look good.

Now when I see folks in western garb up in Washington State (where I am) - say from Seattle - I ask myself, "WTF?!"

256 posted on 09/22/2006 12:41:05 PM PDT by llevrok (When you take my gin from my cold, dead hand....)
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To: Millee


I spy with my little eye...
257 posted on 09/22/2006 12:41:34 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: sully777

258 posted on 09/22/2006 12:46:27 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: nuke rocketeer
Salvadore Dali


259 posted on 09/22/2006 12:47:07 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: nuke rocketeer

< img height=500 "Tripod sux" >


260 posted on 09/22/2006 12:49:31 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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