# HGH observation **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [July 15, 2004, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hgh-observation/255275 "2004-07-15T16:35:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hgh-observation/255275/1 "2004-07-15T16:35:30Z")
Is it just me, or does Slug’s cartoon for the human growth hormone article ([http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040709.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040709.html) ) bear a suspicious resemblance to Krusty the Klown? ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hgh-observation/255275/2 "2004-07-15T17:05:58Z")
1. I note that “he’s got little feet like all good-hearted people.” 2. The ease of the heart springing from the chest might be due to his pacemaker operation scar tissue being weak. 3. But there is no sign of pacemaker wires. 4. Nor do I detect a superfluous third nipple. “Answer not clear, ask again later.” ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hgh-observation/255275/3 "2004-07-15T17:47:23Z")
I wouldn’t have said Krusty (he never had muscles like that,) but the dark nose and the frizzed out hair sure do look clownish. I couldn’t figure out the liquid under the guy’s knee, but a lot of Slug’s people are inexplicably leaking something. ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hgh-observation/255275/4 "2004-07-15T19:35:51Z")
Well, I don’t know from Krusty, but I think the idea of the hair and moustache was that the guy is an elderly fellow. The leaking stuff has me puzzled, though. At least, I hope it has me puzzled. I hope it isn’t just that the guy is in need of adult diapers. RR ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hgh-observation/255275/5 "2004-07-15T22:01:38Z")
> [@](#): > > I hope it isn’t just that the guy is in need of adult diapers. That occurred to me, too, but it really looks like the fluid is coming from his knee. I was expecting to see in the article something about one of the side effects being excessive sweating, but none such. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hgh-observation/255275/6 "2004-07-16T01:09:53Z")
Perhaps it cures water on the knee? ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hgh-observation/255275/7 "2004-07-16T04:18:07Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > 1. But there is no sign of pacemaker wires. Maybe he needed the pacemaker after his heart flew out of his chest due to HGH overdose. Might explain the hair too. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hgh-observation/255275/8 "2004-07-19T15:55:11Z")
Since this is a comment on one of Cecil’s Columns and not on a Staff Report, I’m moving it to the appropriate forum.