How do you spell disgust?

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:28 am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/ ... ndex.shtml

Yet another interesting quiz.

Charlene · Post by **Charlene** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:42 am

When I clicked on your link I got the 404 page not found and it went to the main page - yet clicking on the link there for human body and then the survey worked. Wonder if it's because you ended the url with a period? Picky computers.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:03 am

Teeth with maggots! Yikes! I hope that can't happen if you brush your teeth regularly.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:09 am

Cynth wrote:Teeth with maggots! Yikes! I hope that can't happen if you brush your teeth regularly.

Hmm. I just finished breakfast. Maybe I'll hold off taking the quiz for a couple of hours. :roll:

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:10 am

Cynth wrote:Teeth with maggots! Yikes! I hope that can't happen if you brush your teeth regularly.

Only if you brush them with maggots

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:16 am

Eeeeeeeeeeeew!!!!!

Unseen122 · Post by **Unseen122** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:25 am

That was an odd test.

amar · Post by **amar** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:14 am

i've seen many awful things...but those maggots....god, that was nauseating..

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:40 am

amar wrote:i've seen many awful things...but those maggots....god, that was nauseating..

I never would have imagined... Jaysus. Now I have to suppress that image from my mind. The quiz indicated that I probably wouldn't want to share a beer with that guy.

Sunnywindo · Post by **Sunnywindo** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:48 am

Mommy! That man is trying to make me throw up! (*in whiney voice*)

Eewwwwwww!

Sara (*who isn't even going to click on the link to peek based off of the responses from others*)

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:49 am

Well, I won't print the picture to spare us all but this is a description of what happened:

The elderly Israeli man in the photograph is thought to have been infected when he sat down under a tree to sleep. A sarcophagid or 'flesh' fly crawled inside his mouth and deposited its live larvae in the gaps between his gums and teeth.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/ ... gust.shtml

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:43 pm

Cynth wrote:Well, I won't print the picture to spare us all but this is a description of what happened:

The elderly Israeli man in the photograph is thought to have been infected when he sat down under a tree to sleep. A sarcophagid or 'flesh' fly crawled inside his mouth and deposited its live larvae in the gaps between his gums and teeth.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/ ... gust.shtml

Herregud! I thought it was an animal's teeth. *shudder* Poor guy.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 4:09 pm

Well, I think he got medical treatment right away----otherwise they wouldn't have that photo. But I'm sure it was horrible for him. Just don't sleep outside with your mouth open.

Sunnywindo wrote:Eewwwwwww!

This is the spelling I have been looking for.

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 5:19 pm

Cynth wrote:The elderly Israeli man in the photograph is thought to have been infected when he sat down under a tree to sleep. A sarcophagid or 'flesh' fly crawled inside his mouth and deposited its live larvae in the gaps between his gums and teeth.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/ ... gust.shtml

Probably the least threatening of all. Self-limiting, too. Well, at least not contagious. Not really. Haul the little guys out of there and everything's fine. Or wait for them to pupate--they'll drop out on their own.

At which point, you can put them in a jar and wait to see what they turn into.

Heh. I have touched most of those things, albeit with a sturdy pair or two of latex gloves.

And not just once . . . nor by accident!

Being a parasitologist can be very handy during the holiday season. I am never, absolutely NEVER, asked to bring food to potlucks. Even now that I am doing other, less gruesome things, I make sure to mention my former occupation--to which I am sadly allergic, although I'm delighted to now be doing something that pays better--right about November 1 every year. Never fails.

That toothbrush question kind of got me, though.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 5:59 pm

ok......I WAS going to take this quiz of yours, Flydooooood. But now, I think that it would be better to just stay away

If it made amar sick, that's saying something