[mkjessup]

Well after reading this unnerving article, I suppose it would be appropriate to share a story that my late Dad told me, and I hope that the resulting humor will make up for the queasiness that some of us might be feeling right about now ...

"A man discovered that he was terribly constipated, and the usual laxatives and what not were not helping. So, he goes to his doctor, who conducts a thorough exam and then takes a scope to look up the man's hindquarters, and exclaims "well no wonder you're all backed up, you've got a huge tapeworm in your lower intestine, I can see how it has you blocked!"

The man, in a bit of a panic, says "what do I do Doc?" and the doctor reassured him and said "not to worry, I've dealt with this before, I'm giving you a sleeping pill so you can get a good night's rest, and I want you to come back in the morning, and bring me two hard boiled eggs, and a cookie."

His patient said "say WHAT?" and the doctor told him to just follow directions. The man went home, took the sleeping pill, had a rather good sleep, and obediently brought in two hard boiled eggs and a nice thick chocolate chip cookie the next morning to the doctor.

The doctor directs the man to get up on the examining table on his hands and knees after disrobing, and the man heard the unmistakable snap of rubber gloves being pulled over hands and the doctor said "now brace yourself, this might be a little uncomfortable" as he proceeded to ram the first hard boiled egg, then the second egg, AND the cookie, right up the man's anus. Needless to say, the man was a bit stunned at that development. The doctor instructed him to get dressed, take another sleeping pill that night, and bring two MORE hard boiled eggs AND another cookie the next day.

The patient, obedient as before, did exactly that. The next morning, he was ushered into the doctor's examining room, up on the table he goes, and after some reassuring words from his physician, it was one egg, two eggs, AND that chocolate chip cookie, rammed up where the sun doesn't shine.

The man says in obvious pain, "NOW what Doc?!?" And the doctor said, tomorrow your problems will be over, go home and get another good night's rest, and when you come in tomorrow, bring me two hard boiled eggs and a HAMMER."

The patient, VERY alarmed said "DOC?!? You're not gonna go and ram a HAMMER up there are you!?" and the doctor replied, "oh of course not, do you think I'm some kind of barbarian?"

So after one more night of somewhat fitful sleep, the man waddles into the doctor's office, bringing two hard boiled eggs and a big Sears claw hammer. Up on the table he gingerly climbs, the doctor rams the first egg up the guy's rump. The man howls with pain. The second egg is introduced to his colon. MORE painful shrieks. The man says "Doc? I can't take much more of this, what's next?"

The doctor says "be very still, and brace yourself" - and raised the hammer high, and in just a few moments the tapeworm leaped out of the man's butt, yelling
"WHERE'S MY COOKIE?!?"

**** WHAM **** went the hammer!!!!!

[a fool in paradise]

We’ve had numerous brain damaged Democrats who retained their seats in office (and perks) for years.

Now this?

[geanakos.chris]

This is alarming..

[Salvation]

This sounds like it should be easy to treat, but that it is not being detected.

How does the tapeworm inhabit the brain in the first place? Eating meat that it not thouroughly cooked?

[VideoDoctor]

The very early symptoms of these worms is that you began to act, talk, and eventually morph into being a radical LIBERAL.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Parasite infections are very common even in the US.

There is a good, cheap dewormer for people: www.humaworm.com

[Fractal Trader]

Just totally gross!

[spodefly]

I have a head ache now ...

[HiTech RedNeck]

On skimming I don’t see anything about whether these tapeworms can keep going in pigs alone. If it absolutely needs a human to pig to human cycle, modern sanitation practice in the US (even in the deep country, people don’t abut their outhouses to hog slopping operations) would seem to make it impossible. Now in Mexico, it could be a different story, especially where night soil (human waste) is used to fertilize.

[Kickass Conservative]

This study was sponsored by a new Super Pac, ‘Bacon Haters For America”.

[Lancey Howard]

(( ping ))

[right way right]

Quick everyone! Grab a sledge hammer and bash your head in!
We must stop this NOW!!!!!!!!!
Don’t stop until............ow-————ow________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

[Leep]

Free brain check for OWS participants...?