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[Hooray For Everything]

thalidomide

[mikemfer]

Did it. Didn't get anything. Tried urban dictionary too. And I asked woodman.

[mikemfer]

So a thalidomide girl is...?

[Hooray For Everything]

Jesus fuckin' Christ......

must I?

So much for subtlety...she had lobster claw hands....

and I was tripping....get it?



here....damn it

[capthfc]

mmmmm.....lobster

[mikemfer]

Take it easy, I didn't know what it was and you didn't answer my question. I'm aware of google.

OK, so someone born disfigured because their mother took thalidomide while pregnant.

[woodman]

Way back in the day (2000) mr. burke and I used to walk most everywhere, because we had no car and needed the exercise. on this particular day I think we were on our way back to our abode on chandler blvd and price from kyrene and elliot where the bus stop was. it's a good, long walk with nothing but houses, bees, dirt mounds and intel in between - i'd say it took about 45 minutes or so.

so we're a bit more than half-way there, on galveston i think, when i suddenly MUST SHIT. I mean, there was no mistaking it - shit was coming, and i was not going anywhere without letting the sphincter have it's say. on that particular stretch of galveston there was a walled-in housing developement on the north side, and a huge wall of dirt on the south side, which continued as an empty lot all the way down to chandler blvd. without a moment to lose, i decided to climb over the dirt mounds and drop trou on the edge of the lot, in full view of passing cars coming up towards galveston from chandler. oh my, was it horrible - but i won't go into details of the shit itself. i'll just say that there's probably more houses there, and underneath one of them is a pair of boxers, soiled thoroughly by yours truly... maybe there's an extra green patch of grass on the lawn for the green thumbs of the neighborhood to marvel over.

aaron and i had a good laugh about it all the way back to the appt, where i shit some more of my brains out, in the comfort of my own bathroom.

[Mary]

I went out once with a broadcasting classmate who had lost two fingers in an accident. It was oh such a boring date and I realized I had accepted it about 15% because I didn't want him to think I said no just because of the 8-fingered thing.

(The other 85% was realizing that other women went out with people they barely knew and maybe I was wrong about that "I know in 30 seconds whether I'm interested in you" thing. I was not wrong.)

[mikemfer]

When in the late 1950s and early 1960s pregnant women across the globe reached for a recommended remedy for bouts of morning sickness, they had no idea how this, "chemical shrapnel", as it has since been called, would affect the lives of their unborn children. Around ten thousand babies were born with disabilities as a result of their mothers taking the Thalidomide drug. Just under half of those have survived

Now I'm an expert

[Hooray For Everything]

Take it easy, I didn't know what it was and you didn't answer my question. I'm aware of google.

OK, so someone born disfigured because their mother took thalidomide while pregnant.

I just wanted to be, um, sensitive...

I'm legendary for my sensitivity...

[mikemfer]

I once got a call from a customer that our delivery van was "circling their shopping center and looking suspicious". Evidently they had had some burglaries recently and weren't appreciative of this. I told them I'd check into it knowing full well that it was two guys I was friends with and not worried about it. When the guys got back from the delivery route I noticed my friend Louis only had one sock on. I asked what happened. He explained that he had to take a massive shit and he sacrificed a sock to wipe with. He was behind a dumpster, the van was cruising around in circles because they were waiting for him.

[mikemfer]

Take it easy, I didn't know what it was and you didn't answer my question.  I'm aware of google.

OK, so someone born disfigured because their mother took thalidomide while pregnant.

I just wanted to be, um, sensitive...

I'm legendary for my sensitivity...

Obviously not in matters of religion

Jesus fuckin' Christ

[Mary]

I'm glad my mom was willing to hurl her guts out so I'd have arms.

[mikemfer]

I'm glad my mom was willing to put up with my colic and then still have my brother

[bobby]

Peter, if you are reading this, please tell the Easter story.



Pllleeeeeeaaaaaassssseeeee.