Sara, I had just taken a bite of macaroni and cheese!
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
No way in heck I'm clicking that link.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
*throws away his tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich*
Posted by WheatPuppet (Member # 5142) on :
I'm reminded of that episode of Pinky and the Brain where Pinky becomes a standup comic (in order to take over the world, of course) and bases his comic routine around the word 'repugnant.'
I don't remember how it ended, though.
What an enjoyable show that was. Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
Well, it is repugnant, at least at first glance.
But it presents fascinating puzzles in the medical and ethical arenas, which is beautiful.
[And hey, guys, it is clearly labelled. You have to give me that.]
[ January 03, 2005, 05:59 PM: Message edited by: Sara Sasse ]
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I think that one ended with them not taking over the world.
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
Oh yeah?? Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
No, that is abominable.
It is worthy of or causing disgust or hatred: detestable.
[ January 03, 2005, 06:05 PM: Message edited by: Sara Sasse ]
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Not clicking that one, either.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
Sara, what exactly are you? If I had to guess I'd pervert the old adage, "Cold hands, warm heart" to something like, "Bald head, hairy heart"
[ January 03, 2005, 06:08 PM: Message edited by: punwit ]
Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
I am living human tissue, and I have a unique set of human DNA.
I am growing.
I can be supported indefinitely in the right environment.
I have teeth, nails, hair, cartilage, bone, muscle, and nerve tissue.
What am I?
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
Hmmm... some sort of botched cloning experiment?
Edit to add: Perhaps not botched but incomplete.
[ January 03, 2005, 06:12 PM: Message edited by: punwit ]
Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
I am naturally occurring.
I have become alive at times ever since women started having babies.
I need sustenance if I am not to die.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
I know! Your a somethingtoma, a cyst, an unfertizlized egg! You grow to the size of a freaking grapefruit! You are disgusto!
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
I think Dean Koontz wrote a story about you!
Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
I am a teratoma!
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Do I win some sort of frightening prize?
Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
*applause for Elizabeth
If one is going to give rational argument for determining personhood and what is human life, then one must take into account the teratoma.
I think they are amazing.
Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
Elizabeth, I'll share my pomegranate juice. Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Egads, it could be a whole new race.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Why so? From the wiki entry, it appears to be only unfertilized eggs/sperm that are affected.
Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
Yes, but it is
1. living 2. human tissue 3. with differentiated organs 4. that can be kept from dying with proper support
It is, indeed, like an imperfect clone of the mother or father. How should we treat clones? Same as children that grew from fertilized eggs, yes?
And how should we treat a fetus that we know will require indefinite life support, e.g., on a ventilator?
I don't mean to make points by asking the questions. They are real questions, and I cannot reconcile them without positing the importance of a certain level of neurological structure and organization. From the very first time I saw a teratoma in pathology class, I've been troubled by the implications.
[ January 03, 2005, 06:31 PM: Message edited by: Sara Sasse ]
Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
Practicing medicine is taking a ringside seat for the theater of life in all its gore and glory.
quote: Few ways of life were hidden from Physician, and he was oftener in its darkest places than even Bishop. There were brilliant ladies about London who perfectly doted on him, my dear, as the most charming creature and the most delightful person, who would have been shocked to find themselves so close to him if they could have known on what sights those thoughtful eyes of his had rested within an hour or two, and near to whose beds, and under what roofs, his composed figure had stood. But Physician was a composed man, who performed neither on his own trumpet, nor on the trumpets of other people. Many wonderful things did he see and hear, and much irreconcilable moral contradiction did he pass his life among; yet his equality of compassion was no more disturbed than the Divine Master's of all healing was. He went, like the rain, among the just and unjust, doing all the good he could, and neither proclaiming it in the synagogues nor at the corner of streets.
-- Dickens, Little Dorritt
I say "ringside" hesitantly, because it implies being a spectator only, as if gawking at a freakshow. There is nothing farther from the truth. Medicine is the fullest participation in life -- one's own and others' -- that I have ever found.
[ January 03, 2005, 06:41 PM: Message edited by: Sara Sasse ]
Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
Well, this is officially the weirdest thread ever.
Be sure and put in on the calendar for 2005.
Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
I've known it all along. But I'm proud of you for finally admitting it.
Posted by BunnV (Member # 6816) on :
At least you're not annoying like me. Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
Oh, Kaioshin. This thread is just too heated, I suppose.
Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :
quote: I'm reminded of that episode of Pinky and the Brain where Pinky becomes a standup comic (in order to take over the world, of course) and bases his comic routine around the word 'repugnant.'
I don't remember how it ended, though.
What an enjoyable show that was.
actually i think Brain becomes the comic, but otherwise i agree completely
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Yep, about as repugnant as Ben and Jerry's cookie dough ice cream... or a box of warm krispy kremes right off the waterfallofliquidsugar. Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
quote: At least you're not annoying like me.
Yep, as annoying as Allison Krauss's singing.
Posted by BunnV (Member # 6816) on :
quote: Yep, as annoying as Allison Krauss's singing.
Haha, could you similie me with someone I would actually know? And it better be someone really annoying, or I won't approve. Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
I am eating a kiwi without peeling off the skin.
Boo!
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Oh, Sara, I'm afraid that scarred me for life. Almost as badly as a few weeks ago when someone linked me to a page on harlequin baby syndrome.
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
You are joking, right kaioshin?
You alright?
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
quote: Haha, could you similie me with someone I would actually know? And it better be someone really annoying, or I won't approve.
You can listen to a sample here if you like (it's the first one).
[ January 04, 2005, 07:13 PM: Message edited by: Tatiana ]
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
quote: You are joking, right kaioshin?
You alright?
Yes I'm fine ... just making a dobie of the "I'm pregnant!" thread.
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