The Official Friday Silliness Thread Explores Creepy Brain Stimulations (Did you see that???)

Reuters ^ | September 22, 2006 | Sully777

[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...

[Izzy Dunne]

Creepy Brain Stimulations?

I'm in:

[Izzy Dunne]

An Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scotsman walk into a bar, and each orders a beer.

In come three flies, and plink, plank, plunk!, drop into the three beers.

The Englishmans says "Eeeeewwww!", and pushes away his beer.

The Irishman reaches in, grabs the fly, flicks it away, and resumes drinking.

The Scotsman reaches in, grabs the fly, shakes it, and says "Spit it out, ya wee bastid!"

[ArGee]

Kim responded, "Oh, Waura, it was wousy.

Reminds me of an old "Wizard of Id" cartoon where a thief stopped a stagecoach. "Your money or your wife!" he demanded. There was the sound of a kick as Blanch landed on the thief. As the coach drove away he yelled, "COME BACK HERE YOU WIWWY WIVERED WOUSE!!!!!"

Shalom.

[ErnBatavia]

Roll Call:

"Shakin' it here, boss"

[BibChr]

That is one of my all-time favorites. I actually think of it at odd moments. Classic.

[ArGee]

A man walks into a bar where he hears beautiful piano music. He looks at the piano but sees no one. Upon closer inspection there is a man, 1 foot tall, making that beautiful music.

As he sits at the bar he asks the bartender where the tiny piano player came from. The bartender reached under the counter and pulled out an ancient Persian lamp and said, "Give the lamp a rub."

So the man rubbed the lamp and out popped a genie. The genie said, "For freeing me from the lamp I will grant you one wish. You may ask for anything."

The man thinks a moment and says, "Give me a million bucks."

"DONE!!!" roars the genie and - poof - he returns to the lamp. Well the man looks around but sees no money so he reaches for his wallet when in fly a million ducks, quacking, flapping, and generally causing pandemonium in the little bar. The panicky patrons wave their arms and shout and eventually drive the ducks back into the wild from whence they came.

The man turns to the bartender and says, "I'm really sorry about that. I don't know what happened. I didn't ask for a million ducks."

The bartender says, "Do you think I asked for a 12 inch pianist?"

Shalom.

[CTOCS]

I actually tried to eat a Balut one night in Olongapo City after consuming several adult beverages. It got about half way down when my gag reflex kicked in. Barfed all over the place. Needless to say, the staff at the East End bar were not amused.

[ArGee]

If any of them are still able to crawl off the paper, let them go (be a good sport!!)

I'd hate to be that little guy when he gets back to the ol' hill.

That's why I like chocolate covered nuts better. They never crawl away. Plus, if you troll liberal protests, there are plenty of nuts available.

Shalom.

[ArGee]

By the way - never ask for chocolate covered nuts at a place that serves Texas oysters.

A word to the wise.

Nudge...nudge...wink...wink...say no MORE...say no MORE.

Shalom.

[motormouth]

Ping to ya.

MM

[ArGee]

Mine?

Shalom.

[ArGee]

Missed it by THAT much.

Shalom.

[Liberty Valance]

Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. Well, for example, the other day I went downtown and went into a shop. I was only in there for about 5 minutes and when I came out there was a cop writing out a parking ticket.

I went up to him and said, "Come on, man, how about giving a retired person a break"? He ignored me and continued writing the ticket. I called him a "Nazi." He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tires. So I called him another bad name." He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more I abused him, the more tickets he wrote. Personally, I didn't care. I came downtown on the bus and the car that he was putting the tickets on had a bumper sticker that said "Hillary in '08."

I try to have a little fun each day now that I'm retired. It's important to my health.

[ArGee]

Fun things to do in an elevator.

• Crack open your briefcase or purse, peer inside and ask, "Got enough air in there?"
• Offer name tags to everyone getting on the elevator. Wear yours upside-down.
• Stand silently and motionless in the corner facing the wall. Don't get off at any floor.
• Greet everyone getting on the elevator with a warm handshake and ask them to call you Admiral.
• Do Tai Chi exercises.
• Stare and grin at another passenger for a while. Finally announce, "I've got new socks on!"
• Meow occassionally.
• Sing "Mary had a Little Lamb" while continually pushing buttons.
• Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce "You're one of them!" and move to the far corner of the elevator.
• Start a sing-along.
• When the elevator is silent, look around and ask, "Is that your beeper?"
• Lean against the button panel.
• Say "I wonder what all these do", and push all the buttons. Don't forget to push the "Emergency Stop" button.
• Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers that this is your "personal space."
• Carry a blanket and clutch it protectively.
• Just before the elevator doors open at your floor, move to the center front of the car and drop to your knees. As they open, fall to the floor, crawl out slowly and mumble loudly, "No more Polish women! No more Polish women!"

Shalom.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

[nuke rocketeer]

Talking to yourself again I see......

[grellis]

Here's a big surprise...I'm confused.

Are you talking about post #17 or the brain teaser? Am I supposed to be looking at the graphic of the teaser AND the blinking eye together (which I can't do, they don't fit the pc screen together) or just the graphic? I love graphics like that, it just doesn't seem to be doing anything to me. I've been bed-bound since Sunday, though...my sickly, little ol' brain might not be up to it.

[ArGee]

At the time, I think I was too young and too healthy to get sick from eating all that crap.

I have a steel digestive system, created by eating fried SPAM when young.

I don't know if my mother was trying to strengthen me or kill me.

Shalom.