[dirtboy]

Great. If I ever get diabetes, I'll keep a Gila monster around and have it bite me on the leg periodically.

[billb]

Didn't Sharon Stone try to off her husband this way?

[general_re]

I seem to recall that in order to deploy their venom, they have to kind of chew rather than just bite. You might just want to leave it attached permanently...

[templar]

I'll keep a Gila monster around and have it bite me on the leg periodically.

That will most certainly result in rapid weight loss.

[Alex Murphy]

Actually, I think you're required to french-kiss the lizard within a half-hour of each meal for it to be effective. If you don't stop eating out of revulsion (hence the weight-loss) your blood sugar will drop as it bites your lip and it's venom starts to flow into your bloodstream.

Seriously, how do researchers come up with this stuff? Was someone in the uber-secret Arizona lab staring, bored out of his/her skull, staring out of the window one day - spots a roaming gila monster, and decides "hey, I've got nothing better to do. I'll grab that lizard, let it drool into my mouth, and use my government grant money to pay for research into what it does to me?" Waddya wanna bet he was expecting to find another free psychotropic drug source, i.e. toad-licking?

[orchid]

The article said salive. You'll have to French (sorry) kiss a gila monster. No biting though.

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

So Ozzie was on to something? Or was it a bat's head?