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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.)
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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).
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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. Posts: 264 | Registered: Jan 2002
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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! Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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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. Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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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. Posts: 14017 | Registered: May 2000
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So... If OSC squishes your head, does that mean that you are more likely to get some cognitive decline when you are older???
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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.
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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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