Which is, I’m sure, how they came to be called pinworms. We used to get them when we were little and it felt like being stuck repeatedly with a pin. Not a good time. It’s tender there.
Well, you WERE the only one.
If you get them, you just have to tickle that ganglion thingy in your bowel somewhere, like in the Parasites Lost episode of Futurama:
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: If we can stimulate that nerve, the bowel will convulse, expelling the entire worm society.
Hermes Conrad: But what about the worms in the other parts of his body?
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Listen, this is going to be one hell of a bowel movement. Afterwards he’ll be lucky if he has any bones left.
they can also get into the appendix.
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You guys are hilarious…
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Thanks doggio. Now I’m itchy EVERYWHERE!
(Does that mean I am, in fact, an asshole?)
An IRL friend of mine who’s also a Doper became convinced he had pinworms - to the extent that he actually went to the doctor, IIRC - the first time this thread was around. He’s not a regular Doper nowadays. Maybe I should email it to him to show that it’s been bumped.
:eek:
: scratches appendix :
And send him right back to the doctor! This thread could make even the most hardened anti-medical establishment paranoid go running for the hospital doors! It’s playing tricks with my mind, for sure… :eek:
Itch, itch, itch…
Seems like a good reason to sleep with some drawers on as well.
If someone calls me up and mentions “Scotch” and “tape” in the same sentence, I am so not thinking, “Cool … pinworm hunting time!”
Just sayin’.
The test for tapeworms is not to probe the anus with a pin, however.
My daughter had them, when she was four or five. The preschool teacher told me there’d been a few cases, and told me about the flashlight diagnosis. To this day, I wonder if Tracy remembers her mom peering at her vagina with a flashlight. Shades of Sybil!
The cure in the 60’s was raw cabbage. (Eating it, not applying it.) It worked.
Why raw cabbage? It’s like feeding them salad? Isn’t it?
One website says cabbage has sulfur, which repels worms.
It took me almost 2 days to figure this out. :smack:
Seriously? That’s one bait I don’t think I would ever try.
Zombie Butt Worms has a better ring to it.
So does one HAVE to use hot water to clean all the laundry? I think I may have the little bastards, now. Also, what does one need to clean all surfaces? Alcohol, bleach, or what? I don’t want something that will destroy the remotes because I will definately be cleaning those. Also, will vacuuming be sufficient for the rug? A lot of ditry laundry has sat on the floor and so it must certainly have eggs on it.
I’m afraid to ask what you’re doing with your remotes.