The bod-mod crowd is facing a split decision (tongue-splitting)

Richmond Times Dispatch ^ | Jun 04, 2003 | CYNTHIA MCMULLEN

[putupon]

The first thing you notice, talking on the phone with Shannon Larratt, is that he doesn't have a lisp.

You thought he would, as his tongue has been split.

Intentionally.

By choice.

Split.

But the man who edits BMEzine online - that's BM as in body modification - says he's never known a splitter to develop a lisp. For that to happen, he says, the cut would have to be extreme.

[putupon]

"If it's making people happy, I don't see how it's not a good thing . . . . It's therapeutic."

That is true. It sure made me laugh.

[Fury]

Next thing in fashion - kids getting harelips...

[Aquinasfan]

If we're created in the image of God, then it is impossible to improve our bodies (beyond the point of proper operation, anyway). If we are simply the product of blind, material forces, if we really are simply matter in motion, then what the hell.

[Centurion2000]

NOW the white man can really speak with forked tongue.

[Kenton]

Splitting people's tongues sounds like some sort of medieval interrogation technique. I mean really, can we call a freak a freak when appropriate?

In 20 years they'll just be the weirdo the cops watch all the time because they scare little kids.