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Post by Dbaby on Jul 25, 2003 12:43:09 GMT -5
I tried to count the stars every night when I was little, but I always lost track of which ones I had counted!
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Post by tdallasw on Jul 25, 2003 15:11:34 GMT -5
Legendary Dog-Eating Catfish Dies
BERLIN (Reuters) - A giant catfish that ate a dog and terrorized a German lake for years has washed up dead, but the legend of "Kuno the Killer" lives on.
A gardener discovered the carcass of a five-foot-long catfish weighing 77 pounds this week, a spokesman for the western city of Moenchengladbach said on Friday.
Kuno became a local celebrity in 2001 when he sprang from the waters of the Volksgarten park lake to swallow a Dachshund puppy whole. He evaded repeated attempts to capture him.
"He was our Loch Ness monster," said Uwe Heil, member of "Kuno's Friends," a local rock band named after the fish.
Several fishermen identified the carcass as Kuno, but doubts linger.
"That's not the Kuno we know," said Leon Cornelius, another member of "Kuno's Friends." He said he had seen several huge catfish in the lake.
Low water levels and a summer heat wave probably killed the catfish, among the biggest found in Germany. The northern city of Bremen plans to stuff it and put in a museum.
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Post by Dbaby on Jul 25, 2003 15:59:30 GMT -5
That's just awesome! I wish there was a place where they could live and not bother anybody and not be bothered!
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Post by MzClassic on Jul 25, 2003 16:03:09 GMT -5
:hairraiser: :hairraiser: Tdallas...Ginger(my dog) just RAN under the bed after reading that...and my daughter swore off ever eating catfish again...lol :laughing: :laughing:
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Post by MzClassic on Jul 25, 2003 16:06:34 GMT -5
www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/07/22/tongue.ap/index.htmlTongue swap patient recovering
Tuesday, July 22, 2003 Posted: 10:54 AM EDT (1454 GMT)
In a 14-hour operation doctors amputated the patient's tongue and attached the new one
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- A patient who doctors say is the first-ever recipient of a human tongue transplant was recovering Tuesday and showed no signs of rejecting his new organ, his doctors said.
The patient, a 42-year-old man who suffered from a malignant tumor on his tongue and part of his jaw, underwent a 14-hour operation on Saturday in which doctors amputated his tongue and attached the new one.
"The tongue now looks as if it were his own -- it's as red and colorful and getting good blood circulation," said Dr. Rolf Ewers, the head of the team of nine physicians who performed the operation in Vienna's General Hospital.
"The tongue is just slightly swollen," Ewers added. "That's also a good sign which means that probably no transplant rejection has begun."
But the doctors also said that the patient, whose name was not released, could still face risks such as infection or rejection of the organ.
He will have to take medication for the rest of his life to prevent rejection.
The team will consider the operation successful if the patient, who could no longer open his mouth because of the tumor, regains his ability to eat and speak. Surgeons worked meticulously to attach the nerves of the tongue to the severed nerve endings.
"It's very unlikely he'll regain his sense of taste," Ewers said. "But (regaining) feeling and primarily, movement, would be an optimal result."
Traditionally, in cases where patients lose their tongues, surgeons remove a small piece of their small intestines and graft that onto the tongue stump, the doctors said. Such patients, however, are never able to speak clearly or swallow again, and must be fed through tubes.
The recipient's "new" tongue was first removed from a brain-dead donor by a separate team of doctors in an adjacent operating room and quickly handed over for transplantation, said Dr. Franz Watzinger, one of the leading surgeons.
The donor -- chosen because his blood type and tongue sized matched that of the 42-year old -- was then taken off life support.
Ewers said the team of doctors had been preparing for two years to carry out the tongue transplant, but had until now either lacked a candidate for the operation or an appropriate donor.
"And now finally after long training we were able to carry it out," Dr. Christian Kermer said.
He said there is no evidence in the medical literature that such an operation has even been carried out on humans and that his team felt convinced they were the first.
I don't think you guys would want to see a picture, but click on the link if you do. Lynnie...I read that in the paper and my thoughts were geez...if he needed the transplant but.....WHO WOULD WANT TO HAVE SOMEONE ELSE'S TONGUE IN THEIR MOUTH...  ....like you say, you never know just WHERE that tongue had been in it's lifetime...not to mention another person's mouth yuck...eeewwww!!!!! |
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Post by Dbaby on Jul 25, 2003 16:18:53 GMT -5
 Tdallas...Ginger(my dog) just RAN under the bed after reading that...and my daughter swore off ever eating catfish again...lol  LOL! Yeah! Stop eating catfish! I could tell you horror stories about chickens and cows and stuff that'd make you stop eating them too! |
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Post by MzClassic on Jul 25, 2003 16:27:05 GMT -5
LOL! Yeah! Stop eating catfish! I could tell you horror stories about chickens and cows and stuff that'd make you stop eating them too! Dbaby...I'm not quite ready to be a vegan yet...please spare me the other horror stories on one of my favorites from the food pyramid..MEAT...I'm a CLASSIC CARNIVORE...Give me some horror stories on beets, asparagus and rutabagas |
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Post by Dbaby on Jul 25, 2003 16:48:23 GMT -5
LOL! Well just tell me when your ready to switch over to the dark side... MUHAHAHAHA!
Ok, scary beet story. Ok, this old lady who goes to my church bought beet soup to this soup supper and NO ONE was eating it for obvious reasons, so I took a TON because I felt so bad for her! And I tried it and it was so gross! So I put it in a glass and put a napkin over it so she couldn't see in and I threw it away! And later she came up to me and thanked me for having it because no one would try it! Ok, I guess that wasn't scary, but... oh well!
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Post by MzClassic on Jul 25, 2003 18:13:29 GMT -5
Dbaby...I don't care how you put it, soup, succotash, mashed, baked, ANYTHING with BEET in it is SCARY....
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Post by Dbaby on Jul 25, 2003 18:14:37 GMT -5
LOL! I think I have to agree with you on that! ;D
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Post by SoulStirrer on Jul 25, 2003 18:17:22 GMT -5
Beets are good for you... That's what they tell me as I throw up from eating them... |
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Post by Lynnie on Jul 25, 2003 21:26:55 GMT -5
Dbaby...I don't care how you put it, soup, succotash, mashed, baked, ANYTHING with BEET in it is SCARY.... Don't forget turnips and squash and onions and tomatoes, and eggplant, and....I could really go on for a long time... |
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Post by tdallasw on Jul 25, 2003 21:42:30 GMT -5
Lynnie - how can you go to school in North Cack and not learn to like turnip greens (with turnips in them), sauteed squash w/onions or squash/cheese casserole, fried green tomatoes, fried eggplant or eggplant parmesan, and Vidalia onions? We've got to "school" you girl! I concede on the beets, Brussels sprouts, and asparagus. Can't even stand to SMELL any one of them
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Post by HIATUSHOWRU on Jul 26, 2003 0:12:27 GMT -5
you folks - i love brussel sprouts, beets, asparagus, broccoli, onions, garlic, and turnip greens- had a can yesterday!
sufferin catfish! ate a dachsund! wow! if he could eat a dachsund, why didn't he eat a toyota? ;D
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Post by Lynnie on Jul 26, 2003 10:37:31 GMT -5
Lynnie - how can you go to school in North Cack and not learn to like turnip greens (with turnips in them), sauteed squash w/onions or squash/cheese casserole, fried green tomatoes, fried eggplant or eggplant parmesan, and Vidalia onions? We've got to "school" you girl! I concede on the beets, Brussels sprouts, and asparagus. Can't even stand to SMELL any one of them Nope, nope, NOPE!!! I have some ULTRA-picky eating habits. The only veggies I'll eat are broccoli, carrots, potatoes, and those types. Although the movie Fried Green Tomatoes made them look good, I just don't want to try them. Yuck! |
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