Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
Since folks seemed confused by Froz's post below that contained no mutations, injuries, or gross-out factor, I'll toss a link up to this completely fascinating post from Carl Zimmer about tapeworms (thanks, cw!).
A really disturbing thing about tapeworms is that in some species the offspring live their entire lives inside the mother. They grow to maturity and have offspring of their own and so on for generation after generation. They have been found nested ten generations deep. Ugh.
Posted by: Charles Watkins at February 22, 2007 11:56 AMThis is just what I needed after a nice lunch at Bandido's. Hopefully, tapeworms don't like Mexican.
Posted by: Cangrejero at February 22, 2007 12:45 PMAlso, thanks to this awesome numbering system, I can see that my comment on tapeworms was #2, and laugh like a 5th grader.
Posted by: Cangrejero at February 22, 2007 12:46 PMHopefully, tapeworms don't like Mexican.
You're Mexican?
Posted by: apostropher at February 22, 2007 12:49 PMOh my god I am going to have nightmares for weeks.
Posted by: Jackmormon at February 22, 2007 12:54 PMYou've been posting with frightening frequency about parasites that manipulate their hosts and similar biological "relationships." Zombie-making wasps, fungi that disorient their hosts and make them climb higher for a higher spore-dispersion radius, and now tapeworms that make their hosts easier to catch. Perhaps you've been infected by something that makes you post praises of brain-altering parasites?
Resistance is futile, eh?
Posted by: John Johnson at February 22, 2007 01:34 PMIn keeping with the conceptual continuity, should that read, "I have been in you?"
Posted by: Ashley at February 22, 2007 03:56 PMI thought about that, Ashley, but decided to go with the original Frampton, for conciseness' sake.
Posted by: apostropher at February 22, 2007 05:52 PM