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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 06:12 PM
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Is there any reason I shouldn't take out my own appendix?
Ya know... just as a precaution.
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waylon Donating Member (598 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 06:15 PM
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1. Nope
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 06:16 PM
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3. whoohoo!
I'm boiling my best kitchen knife right now.

Um... is the appendix on the left or the right side?
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 06:15 PM
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2. can't think of any
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 06:16 PM
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4. Go for it. They did it in The Stand by Steven King....
...and look how well that turned out.
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 06:18 PM
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5. OR
you could invite a certain German cannibal over. I hear he's good with a knife.... :evilgrin:
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salinen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 06:20 PM
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6. Might as well
cut out the table of contents while you're there.
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 06:21 PM
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7. Thtat would be so cool.
The ultimate in reality TV. Have you pitched the idea to the networks?
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 06:24 PM
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11. No...
but it's a great idea.

Season two: the spleen.
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 06:24 PM
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12. My Big Fat Inflamed Appendix.
Who's appendix will rupture this week? Tune into Fox for the best reality show ever! Outsuffer! Outdie! Out out damned appendix!
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 06:21 PM
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8. It's the only way to get to know it.
Phone relationships don't work.
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TopesJunkie Donating Member (979 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 06:21 PM
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9. It's more fun if you do it at an Appendix Removal Party!
Do it with all your friends in attendance!
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 06:23 PM
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10. As long as you're paid up in the International Brotherhood
of Appendix Removers (IBAR), I guess it's OK.
It's OK to HAVE a scab, but you don't want to BE one.
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loftycity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 06:25 PM
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13. I don't think your Gandhi
So...I don't think you should.
maybe get a new hair style...maybe you shouldn't have scissors either
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Exultant Democracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 06:26 PM
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14. It's only an appendix
and it is in a real easy place to get at.
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KC21304 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 06:29 PM
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15. Sure, go ahead. And show it a real good time.
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salinen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 06:43 PM
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16. don't take it out !
Just trim it a bit to make it more attractive.
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alwynsw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-21-04 07:26 PM
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17. Wanna borrow a really, REALLY sharp knife?
Choose your blade length: anything from 1" to about 16".
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moof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 11:40 AM
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18. DOOKUS, WAIT, NO, DON'T DO IT
Read this first.

Press Release:
People who have normal appendices removed visit
hospital more over lifetime, especially with self-harm,
than patients with actual appendicitis

http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/press/preleases/pr/pr_385.htm

Hope you read this in time, yikes first an appendix, next a spleen,
pretty soon your not all there.
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