No reason you can't make a corset out of duct tape.
A friend of mine made her prom dress out of duct tape and black and white photographs she had taken.
My heart expands / 'tis grown a bulge in't / inspired by / your beauty effulgent.
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 33 1/3
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
brenda m - Feb 25, 2005 8:38:55 am PST #1228 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Scrappy - Feb 25, 2005 9:01:21 am PST #1229 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
FRANKENBUDDHA-- I ruptured my spleen in a sledding accident when I was 12, so don't have one. As organs go, it's pretty expendable. It holds damaged blood cells in reserve, so it comes in handy with serious illness. I got extra sick with mono because of my spleenless state, and I have to have a couple of extra immunizations every five years. Other than that and the big honking scar on my belly, no difference.
brenda m - Feb 25, 2005 9:16:15 am PST #1230 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Whoops - came back to move my post but it was gone. About what Robin said, though.
Nutty - Feb 25, 2005 9:20:24 am PST #1231 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I know that, in old-fashioned systems of "science", the spleen was very important in the manufacture of rage. So, by losing her spleen, your friend may become a calmer person!
(I knew a kid in 7th grade who had a bike accident and surgery similar to what Robin describes. He came through fine, and did not have a personality change, either.)
lisah - Feb 25, 2005 9:21:56 am PST #1232 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate
Frankenbuddha, I hope your friend recovers quickly. When I was a little kid my cousin (who was an adult) had to have his spleen removed. He was fine and is still going strong. My main memory of it was that I decided for some reason that the spleen was in your thigh. I have no idea what made me think this. But I held on to the belief for years!
§ ita § - Feb 25, 2005 9:23:25 am PST #1233 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But if your lose your spleen, where will the magic go?
Frankenbuddha - Feb 25, 2005 9:24:06 am PST #1234 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
So like a Gall Bladder then, or slightly more useful? But not a liver or a pancreas (the pancreas is a required organ too, right) and not as expendable as the appendix (which is a waste of the little space it takes).
Whew, that's good to know. Sounds like if she's out of ICU she should be OK.
brenda m - Feb 25, 2005 9:24:08 am PST #1235 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I know that, in old-fashioned systems of "science", the spleen was very important in the manufacture of rage. So, by losing her spleen, your friend may become a calmer person!
Ooh, that would make me so mad!
Except I couldn't get mad.
Which would make me even madder!
Analysis: Spleen is v. important in the prevention of head explosion.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 25, 2005 9:25:00 am PST #1236 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
But if your lose your spleen, where will the magic go?
To Allyson, I'd assume.
sarameg - Feb 25, 2005 9:35:37 am PST #1237 of 10002
Venting your spleen. Full of bile. Gee, the moderately disposable organs are a pretty pissy bunch. Probably resentful of the more necessary ones. They probably get mocked by the heart cruelly. Everyone leaves the appendix alone, though. I guess they deem it so completely useless as to be pitiful.
I'm glad your friend is doing better, Frank.
In other news, I hate computers. Stupid windows tricks. And I'm not even using a PC!!