An entertaining romp...

[erika]

...with a tapeworm.

http://www.fray.com/drugs/worm

[Trembling Eagle]

oh boy that is a phobia of mine

thanks for the nightmare fuel Erika.




oops forgot the "k"

[chrisfoll577]

consider yourself lucky you don't work in a clinical lab... every once in a blue moon we get one in for testing and identification.  They can get frighteningly big.

[Sarah]

And if you have one and you develop a nagging little cough, it's because your worm is crawling up your esophagus and tickling the back of your throat.
















How are your dreams, TE?

[buffcoat]

What's that between "no diet" and "no exercise?"

[Sarah]

"No baths"!

[buffcoat]

"No baths"!

Always the literalist, huh Lubec?






My real questions: why would anyone not want to bathe, and what does it have to do with losing weight.  I'm guessing some 19th century snake-oil salesman had a "bath cure?"

[Sarah]

Hey, I just thought your eyes were bothering you.

To continue the literalist trend, I believe very hot baths used to be used as weight-loss aids.  Consider that people still use steam baths and saunas for this purpose.

[scratchbomb]

Hey, I just thought your eyes were bothering you.

To continue the literalist trend, I believe very hot baths used to be used as weight-loss aids.  Consider that people still use steam baths and saunas for this purpose.

Also, taking a pleasant hot bath/shower would have been much more difficult back then. You'd either have to have hot water in your house (which a lot of people didnt) or boil some on the stove.