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What's In YOUR Ear?

Old 05-06-2007, 06:42 PM
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Hmmmm, I found this story rather gross. Almost barfed up my vanilla ice cream dessert. I'll never have roasted spiders again!

ALBANY, Ore. - A 9-year-old boy who complained of an earache was a little surprised when the doctor told him that a pair of spiders had tried to make a home out of him.

"They were walking on my eardrums," said Jesse Courtney.

One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader's left ear canal.

His mother, Diane Courtney, said her son insisted he kept hearing a faint popping in his ear -- "like Rice Krispies" -- before the earache sent them to the doctor.

Dr. David Irvine said it looked like the boy had something in his ear when he examined him, but he could not immediately identify it. So he irrigated the ear, and the first spider came out, dead. The other spider took a second dousing before it emerged, still alive. Both were about the size of a pencil eraser.

Irvine said it was a first for him as a physician. "It was the only time I ever pulled out an invertebrate," he said.

Jesse was given the spiders -- now both dead -- as a souvenir. He has taken them to school and his mother has taken them to work.

"It was real interesting, 'cause, two spiders in my ear -- what next?" Jesse said.
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Old 05-07-2007, 04:25 PM
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Hehehe, nice. Kid loved it, so it's all good. Now if something like that happened to my wife, now we'd be talking entertainment. I scared her with one that's the size of a pencil tip.
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Old 05-07-2007, 04:33 PM
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Hehehe, nice. Kid loved it, so it's all good. Now if something like that happened to my wife, now we'd be talking entertainment. I scared her with one that's the size of a pencil tip.
I think I would have turned pale and passed out on the examining room floor. You'd scare me with one the size of a pencil tip! I don't like spiders, I don't want them in my ear. My wife sleeps with earplugs on for noise; time for me to sleep with them on for the eight legged intruders.
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Old 05-07-2007, 04:50 PM
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Grown men scared of a little spider?? What is this world coming to?

I'd like to know if the two little spiders laid any eggs in the boy's ear?
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Oh common! There are grown men out there scared of french fries! I saw it on Oprah one time.
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Old 05-07-2007, 07:05 PM
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Oh common! There are grown men out there scared of french fries! I saw it on Oprah one time.
well i guess we know what kinda men you're comparing yourself to than huh?
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well i guess we know what kinda men you're comparing yourself to than huh?
Hey now, those McDonalds and Burger King food mascots aren't exactly friendly looking. When I was a kid, I was terrified of those guys! A walking big mac? A box of french fries prancing around? Ronald McDonald?!?! <scary music in background> Aaaahhhh!!
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Hmmm, come back from dinner to find a thread on spiders turn into one about animated hamburgers. Only on APC. And talk about thread drift - there is a hint of a "what is a real man" discussion!

I note that the Cargo guys (now those guys are Real Men! ) have not chimed in. Surely they can't all be flying tonight. Hub turns. Scooby snacks.
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Hmmm, come back from dinner to find a thread on spiders turn into one about animated hamburgers. Only on APC. And talk about thread drift - there is a hint of a "what is a real man" discussion!

I note that the Cargo guys (now those guys are Real Men! ) have not chimed in. Surely they can't all be flying tonight. Hub turns. Scooby snacks.
I was merely adding to the topic of phobias. Pardone moi! I'll just observe from now on.
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Originally Posted by vagabond View Post
Hmmm, come back from dinner to find a thread on spiders turn into one about animated hamburgers. Only on APC. And talk about thread drift - there is a hint of a "what is a real man" discussion!

I note that the Cargo guys (now those guys are Real Men! ) have not chimed in. Surely they can't all be flying tonight. Hub turns. Scooby snacks.
The scary thing is that that's not true
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