Phaedrus

That's fantastic, Carrie. Many congratulations!

Happy birthday!

Most excellent, Cat. Congratulations, and please keep posting... I really enjoy reading what you have to say!

Boomer may have been talking about Pycnogenol...

Wow. You go away for the weekend, and then... a bolt from the blue! Previous posters here have said it better than I could, but, once more... we'll miss you, WIT. And no, we weren't sick of hearing you say the same things, even if you were sick of saying them :)

Okay, that was just strange. And so... something equally strange. This is weird even by their standards. Pink Floyd - Several Species Of Small Furry Animal Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_MvZxpE7YU

Who knows? Someone will have to TOFTT and find out :) I know the law is in flux at the moment with the Bedford case making its way through the system, but I think it'd be a brave soul who set up an establishment where FS was offered on a regular basis. I'm sure LE could make life hell if they chose to. Even MPs are supposed to be licensed by the City of Ottawa, and I doubt they're handing out more licenses, so the membership thing may be something like CMJ does to get around that (IANAL, but I think that if you're members only you're a private club rather than somewhere that's open to the public, so the rules are different).

Can anyone help? I can't find him at all, and I've been looking for half an hour already...

...I like this one.

where it found

Magazines frequently have lists of the "Top 100 Sexiest Women Alive", or something like that. Do they really have to specify that the women be alive, or are there a lot more necrophiliacs out there than we think there are?

Joan Jett and The Blackhearts - Do You Wanna Touch Me? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XELpxApT8Kc Edit: for the record, I'd missed the recent posts, and that was in response to Angela. Good to see you're still all touching each other :)

Scissor Sisters - Kiss You Off

I must admit, I'm slightly confused by this thread. If something's really that important to you, be it allergies or anything else, why wouldn't you make sure of it in advance? Hoping that the world will always arrange itself to your liking seems like a recipe for disaster...

Saranac, NY

...but it turns out I didn't. The C is for calamari, apparently. http://www.science20.com/squid_day/squid_your_plate_could_inseminate_your_mouth-91085 That Squid On Your Plate Could Inseminate Your Mouth I'm here today to talk about a very strange paper: Penetration of the oral mucosa by parasite-like sperm bags of squid: a case report in a Korean woman. This study, published in February in the Journal of Parasitology (?!), presents the tale of a woman eating squid who experienced "severe pain" and a "pricking, foreign-body sensation" in her mouth. A doctor found and removed "twelve small, white spindle-shaped, bug-like organisms" from her tongue, cheek, and gums. These foreign bodies were subsequently identified as squid spermatophores, which I would like to point out are not "organisms" in any way. A squid, a human, a tree--those are organisms. A spermatophore is like a cup of semen--nothing more than an aggregation of gametes. And "bug-like"? Spermatophores don't have legs. Or eyes. Or exoskeletons. But that's not to say they aren't complex structures. (That's why squid researchers tend to translate "spermatophore" as sperm package rather than sperm bag.) Each spermatophore includes an ejaculatory apparatus, which can expel the sperm mass quite forcefully, and a cement body for attachment. Of course, neither of those is a needle or a knife--the sort of thing you'd expect to need for actual implantation (into either a female squid or a human mouth). I've written a bit about this mystery before. As it turns out, no one is quite sure how spermatophores implant themselves into skin. But whatever the details, it's happened to humans more than once. An earlier case study reports "sperm stings" from consumption of raw squid, but the recent Journal of Parasitology paper is the first report I've seen of spermatophore activity in a cooked squid (parboiled, to be specific). That's . . . quite impressive, actually. In order not to leave calamari connoisseurs unduly freaked out, I should clarify two points. First, most Western squid preparations remove the internal organs and serve only the muscle, so there's no danger of accidentally ingesting spermatophores. Second, it's perfectly fine to handle spermatophores--just don't put them in your mouth. The skin on your hands, and most of the rest of your body, is much too thick to get stuck. I've probably had hundreds of spermatophores ejaculate on my fingers and never felt a sting. Hmm. Does the pain that occurs when spermatophores inject themselves into human mucosa mean that insemination is painful for female squid? It's quite possible. But we'd have to know more about their nervous system to say for sure. Writing this has reminded me of further studies on squid spermatophores, so maybe it will kick off a spate of posts. Aren't you just so excited?

I'm sure there would be many providers who would be happy to give you a free kick in the balls if you asked them for birthday freebies!

Reco on Christy posted yesterday, just after your post... http://www.cerb.ca/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=98361

Yes, it's seaweed. And yes, I'd recommend it. Jessica offers this... not sure who else does.