I don’t know if this question has been raised here or not but what REALLY can be learned by anal probing?
There are only two things that are infinite…the Universe and Man’s stupidity…I’m not sure about the Universe though.
I’m assuming that you’re talking about a sigmoidoscopy or some similar procedure, where they push a rubber tube with a camera on its tip several feet up your rectum…
They’re looking for polyps or other (cancerous or pre-cancerous) growths in your colon. If they find any, the next step is usually surgery to remove them.
(I’m 52, and my doctor is trying to get me to agree to having it done. Not because of any specific symptoms - just “because it’s time”.)
If it’s your boyfriend that’s talking about it, OTOH, it might be a different activity altogether…
I assumed he was asking in the context of alien abductions.
Besides going spelunking for polyps, I suppose aliens could learn something about our digestive systems.
My guess is that they just a bunch of twisted butt freaks.
I don’t want to blab my medical history, but I’ve had one and a colonoscopy, they are good for finding potentially dangerous growths.
You get to watch it on a giant tv screen, which might leave a few queasy.
Now I wish a friend of mine’s mom had had one, she has colon cancer and probably won’t live very long :((last week they said she had two weeks maybe less), and my friend will be an orphan at 21 years old. 
I am a fire whose flames lick and spit at the boundless sky forever desiring wonderous consummation
-me
Katy Coric did hers live on national tv a few days ago. Yep, you could see her intestines.
I’m suprised nobody has mention the Kids in the Hall shetch where Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald play two anal probing aliens
With all the Simpsons fans here why has no one mentioned the episode where homer is abducted (again!) by Kodos and Kang
HOMER: (pulls down pants, projects butt at aliens) I suppose you’ll want to probe me now.
KANG: (recoils) Put your pants back on! We have reached the limits of what we can learn by anal probing
Having an open mind means you put out a welcome mat and answer the door politely. It does not mean leaving the door open with a sign saying nobody’s home
Oh Patricinus, there’s ;ots of things you can find by “anal probing”! Prostate glands bowel cancers, haemorrhoids, anal fissures, inflammatory bowel disease, appendicitis, endometriosis, staging of cervical cancer (PV and PR simultaneously), check for anal sphincter tone in patients with spinal injuries or neurological symptoms… yes, the anus is a fascinating place.
As you get more senior, you also get to torture interns and JRMO’s by asking if they’ve done a rectal examination when they ask for advice about a patient.
Twisted Butt Freaks???
Weren’t they the opening band at a Devo or Talking Heads concert?
–Kalél
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Actually I was referring to the “alien abduction” kind of probing. You would think that there are limits to what you can learn and you hit those limits fairly quickly.
If you’re really good, you can also determine if the patient has swollen tonsils. But really have to reach…
Gypsy: Tom, I don’t get you.
Tom Servo: Nobody does. I’m the wind, baby.
Don’t let them spook you. You can get a home test set for Colon stuff at the drug store.
Handy, there are some things that I just prefer to have someone else do…
(Picturing myself with a three-foot-length of rubber hose and a jar of vaseline…)
Thanks, Golf. Now we’re all imagining it. Ew.
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