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To: bedolido

This is not the first time I've read of this particular form of self-mutilation. Curiously, the other case was also a German.

8 posted on 08/15/2003 10:28:37 AM PDT by rageaholic

To: rageaholic

Curiously, the other case was also a German.

Making knockupwurst, perhaps, no?

11 posted on 08/15/2003 10:31:38 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter

To: rageaholic

Curiously, the other case was also a German.

I seem to recall a Russian doing this a while back. I think I even recall his name ... wasn't it Ivan Katchikokoff?

21 posted on 08/15/2003 10:36:55 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

To: rageaholic; bedolido

Also documented in a book by Simon Winchester about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary titled 'The Professor and the Madman'.

43 posted on 08/15/2003 10:59:39 AM PDT by dogbrain ("Life is hard son. It's harder if you're stupid.")

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