Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/03
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At 1:01 PM -0800 4/3/03, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>Edward Caliguri wrote:
>>
>> Yes - it's an urban legend.
>> I hope this brain consumption thing is done with. Yes - some cultures did
>> consume ancestral brain remains. That's how Jacob-Kreutzfeld disease, the
>> human form of "Scrapie" or "Mad Cow" disease was first discovered. I'd even
>> stay away from Haggis nowadays. Years ago I had it and it's pretty good, but
>> I would not take a chance now. Prions are very hard to eliminate, even by
>> cooking. Cameras are immune - so photograph others eating the stuff!!
>> Ed
>>
>> > Did you actually *read* the article? The point of it is that this is
>> > very likely an urban legend and it goes on to show why one should
>> > suspect this.
>> >
>> > Besides, gorillas are not monkeys. They are apes.
>> >
>> > M.
>>
>You can buy brains at the Safeway. They call them something else.
>And there's rubber bands around them so you don't loose a finger when
>you pick one up.
>Dead brains. Long dead. Synapses no longer firing. Cow no longer
>screaming. Grey matter getting greyer.
>
>For ease of shipping they remove the brain from the cow. Oh! and first
>they kill the cow - its a tricky sequence.
>
>To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
>For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
>When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
>Must give us pause: there's the respect
>That makes calamity of so long life;
>For who would bear the whips and scorns of time...
>
>Mark Rabiner
Down, Mark; down! Easy.... there, there,........
Just take a couple of these and you'll feel better in the morning.
Even a 1:100 that Rodinal is a bit hard on the stomach.
Now just eat your vegetables....... :-)
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