Extremely Rare And Beautiful Pink Dolphin Spotted
I see it wisely waited until Jerry Falwell was gone before making a public appearance.
Police procedure has changed since I was little.
Wash ,'The Message'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 18, 2007 6:04:10 am PDT #8597 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
tommyrot - Jul 18, 2007 6:04:34 am PDT #8598 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Ailleann - Jul 18, 2007 6:13:53 am PDT #8599 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
News from House!
connie, I love you, but spoiler font is your friend! (Or, at least it's my friend.)
I'm not surprised, just... I didn't realize I cared until just now!
(And here I thought I was an unrepentant spoiler ho...)
shrift - Jul 18, 2007 6:14:15 am PDT #8600 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Oh, man! Not that I've ever been, but São Paulo is a hilly mofo and also a ginormous city, so I hope they take measures to fix that freaking runway. I mean, damn, São Paulo is like New York huge.
tommyrot - Jul 18, 2007 6:14:40 am PDT #8601 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommyrot - Jul 18, 2007 6:59:57 am PDT #8602 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This disturbing bit of medical science is from 1935:
LIKE a fairy tale of medicine is the description of an operation which removed nearly the entire “thinking” portion of a woman’s brain, changing her entire personality. For the first year after the operation the woman was almost childishly gay and happy. Later came more mature changes, which improved her power of concentration, memory, and endurance. The right prefrontal lobe and most of the left lobe of the brain were removed by Dr. Glen Spurling of Louisville University’s School of Medicine.
That's all there is, so we don't know why this operation was done....
shrift - Jul 18, 2007 7:04:18 am PDT #8603 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Well, tommyrot, now I feel like I need to retroactively choke a bitch.
tommyrot - Jul 18, 2007 7:07:41 am PDT #8604 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Really. There has to be much more to this story than what we're getting. I'm really curious.
Vortex - Jul 18, 2007 7:13:04 am PDT #8605 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
What I find interesting about it is that even after the removal of the "thinking" brain, she still continued to develop and may eventually have gotten back to "normal"
Nutty - Jul 18, 2007 7:18:08 am PDT #8606 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
an operation which removed nearly the entire “thinking” portion of a woman’s brain
The joke is, it's not unheard-of to remove one hemisphere of the brain -- in a young child. It's basically the last-ditch fix for severe epilepsy. And because a young child's brain still has its infant plasticity, children who have this operation usually end up in the ballpark of normal development. Despite having only half a brain.
I'm not sure this fantasist of 1930-whatever really wants a grown woman with seriously-damaged frontal lobes. Everybody who knew Phineas Gage reported that after his accident, he became an asshole.