According to New Scientist (which gets its information from Brain, vol 126, p 2273), those of you who look like an orange on a toothpick are less likely to suffer congitive decline in old age than people with normally sized heads. In fact, people with smaller heads were up to five times as likely to suffer congitive decline in old age. So, no more crying yourselves to sleep on your huge pillows!
(Unfortunately for sndrake a person's head size at birth doesn't seem to have much effect.)
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Saxon, Annie, I'm talking to you here.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
I figured.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
No, not you, the *other* Saxon. Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Sax just probably needed more time to process the information through his massive cranium before he could reply.
I remember how that is.
[ October 02, 2003, 01:34 PM: Message edited by: sndrake ]
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
Cool! That means Ron will be able to take good care of me when I'm old and crazy. Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Ahhh.. I feel much better. I'm going to sleep a lot more soundly tonight on me huge pillah.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I thought about spelling "pillow" as "pillah", but I figured it would confuse people who didn't get the reference (not that there would probably be many of them here).
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Yay!
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Crap.
I have a small head. Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
I have a huge noggin. Not that it effects my intelligence, but it's big nevertheless... Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Did the headline read:
Fatheads got nothing to loose mentally. Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Or lose. Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
ooops, typooo. I put oone tooo many ooo's in my pooost.
Posted by Ron Lambert (Member # 2872) on :
So, Noeman, are you saying that headshrinkers contribute to senility?
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I'd go farther than that Ron; I'd say it's all their fault. All. their. fault.
Posted by MaureenJanay (Member # 2935) on :
quote: I thought about spelling "pillow" as "pillah", but I figured it would confuse people who didn't get the reference (not that there would probably be many of them here).
But, if it was spelled "pillah" and they didn't get it, then they wouldn't have gotten it either way. But at least they would have known it was a reference to something they didn't get. Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
**smacks Maureen with a "pillah"
Posted by MaureenJanay (Member # 2935) on :
Pillah? What's a "pillah"? I don't get it.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Are you kidding?? Really? Pillow?...have you seen "So I Married and Axe Murderer?" (maybe the question is "Can everyone read Scottish?")
I'm feeling better too. I can never wear normal hats because of my huge head! I was getting a complex! Thanks Noeman! Posted by Taberah (Member # 4014) on :
I think it's a Pentaverate conspiracy . . .
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I haven't seen it . . .
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
I think you'd laugh at it Icarus. If Monty Python, Princess Bride, or the first Austin Powers...if those make you laugh, this one would be a winner I think. It's a classic. Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Awesome. I have a huge head. As in, "can't get turtleneck over my face" big head. My husband tries hard not to laugh at me, but the last time I got my face stuck in a turtleneck and started grumbling, he lost it.
When one of the nurses I work with was on vacation, she saw a hat big enough for me, and she bought it. Out of kindness.
Thanks, Noemon! That sort of makes up for all the odd looks. Posted by MaureenJanay (Member # 2935) on :
You should wear scoop necks. Don't torture yourself CT!
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
quote:Space Ghost: Look at me! I have a big head. My head is huge! What do you think, Zorak?
Zorak: Big head! Big head! Big fat head!
Space Ghost: I have a big head. I'm having a big head day. How's your big head day, kids?
Zorak: Big fat head day!
Space Ghost: Shut up, bug
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
So... If OSC squishes your head, does that mean that you are more likely to get some cognitive decline when you are older???
Posted by ana kata (Member # 5666) on :
I also have a huge head! This is weird! Do you think phrenology is true?
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
As Noemon mentioned, I had a massive cranium before it became fashionable. I decided it had become passe. So I no longer have one.
That's me - setting trends for 47 years.
(Relieved the talk about pillows and pillahs is over. I was afraid I was going to have to start educating about dust mites again.)
[ October 03, 2003, 08:07 AM: Message edited by: sndrake ]
Posted by TimeTim (Member # 2768) on :
My head is not large it's just wierdly shaped. Supposedly I used to use it as a weapon and bash other people's heads with mine.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:Thanks, Noemon! That sort of makes up for all the odd looks.
Just think, when you're 95, you'll still know why you're getting all the odd looks! Those of us with lesser craniums won't even notice the turtleneck stuck to your head.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Yeah. I'll just look like one of those old-style Star Trek cheesy-special-effects aliens.
[ October 03, 2003, 01:45 PM: Message edited by: ClaudiaTherese ]
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
You see, I've always coveted the sort of ethereal loveliness found in the heroines of early Barbara Cartland novels. Sort of doe-eyed, with a long slender neck, graceful little feet, and a mass of shiny soft hair. Like a flower. Or at least, like something fit to be cossetted.
Now take an enormous head, oversized feet, "good birthin' hips," and a couple of hammertoes, and you get me. The words "gazelle-like" and "fragile" do not come to mind, and neither does the phrase "delicate, unearthly beauty." No, it's more likely "inbred," or perhaps "unfortunate accident."
But I've come to live with it. I can handle it. I no longer worry about making small children cry at one glance. I'm down with the whole "earthy" beauty thing, so to speak.
MJ, I'll try -- but really, I could survive Wisconsin winters much better if the turtlenecks weren't all so stretched out.
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