# "I just got un-conjoined! I'm gonna . . ." **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 6, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560 "2003-07-06T12:34:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/1 "2003-07-06T12:34:20Z")
From [here](http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,91152,00.html) > [@](#): > > A pair of 29-year-old Iranian twin sisters, joined at the head, said Saturday their fate was in God’s hands as they prepared to walk into a marathon operation that could finally separate them — or could leave one or both of them brain dead. What’s the first thing you would do? I’d probably go take a dump in peace. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/2 "2003-07-06T14:00:33Z")
Go horseback riding. Or learn to swim. ---
**Author:** ![MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_Master_of_Ceremonies)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/3 "2003-07-06T14:07:49Z")
#Maybe I didn’t treat you Quite as good as I should have Maybe I didn’t love you Quite as often as I could have Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind You were always on my mind # ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/4 "2003-07-06T15:26:33Z")
Sex. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/5 "2003-07-06T15:33:53Z")
Have a good face to face conversation with my twin. I can’t imagine having lived with someone my entire life and never having been able to look them directly in the face. Then I’d go and read a book by myself. Or see a movie alone. Go swimming. Dance. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/6 "2003-07-06T15:35:33Z")
[CNN had a blurb about an upcoming story on the twins, and they described them as “conjoined since birth.” Well! It’s not bloody likely they’d become conjoined **after** birth, is it?] ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/7 "2003-07-06T15:47:31Z")
dantheman Maybe they weren’t conjoined **until** birth. Somebody must have checked. CNN (the most reliable name in news) wouldn’t make such a glaring error. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/8 "2003-07-06T15:56:23Z")
My point is, of course they’ve been conjoined **since** birth. Expressing it like they did implies the possibility that they could have become conjoined **after** birth. Is this possible? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/9 "2003-07-06T15:57:35Z")
Buy a hat? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/10 "2003-07-06T16:15:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\*My point is, of course they’ve been conjoined **since** birth. Expressing it like they did implies the possibility that they could have become conjoined **after** birth. Is this possible? \*\* Hey, **dantheman** I was funning you! It irritates me, too, to hear stuff like that. Even if it is possible, why would any two “sane” people want to? ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/11 "2003-07-06T16:35:00Z")
I know, **Zeldar** - especially the bit about CNN itself. When I saw the blurb, I immediately thought of two people running at each other at full speed… POWSMASHKERPLINK! and suddenly they were fused together at the head! Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice … ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/12 "2003-07-06T16:38:23Z")
**dantheman** I picture two of those toilet plungers (plumber’s friends) attached to the tops of heads and much like your description. ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/13 "2003-07-06T16:44:31Z")
Well, if the operation hadn’t been as publicized as it was (and providing my twin had a similar sense of humor), I’d keep up the appearance of still being conjoined, and invite some friends over. Over dinner, or while hanging out, maybe watching TV, start to make comments like, “you know, we’re really not connected by _that_ much. Just a little skin, couple veins, maybe.” Eventually, my twin and I would decide to try to just pull free of each other, just to see what’d happen, making it sound like a joke. Of course, we would then proceed to actually appear to pry ourselves loose, acting it out accordingly, you know, grunting, straining, making pained faces, possibly recreate some sort of nice ripping noise. The reactions would be priceless. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/14 "2003-07-06T16:56:17Z")
**Orange Skinner** , that is hilarious. “Hey! That was so easy! We should have done that _years_ ago!” Actually, if I were a recent unconjoinee, I don’t know what I’d do, but I would sure as heck do it alone. ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/15 "2003-07-06T18:52:15Z")
1. Go to the bathroom, alone. 2. Take a shower, alone. 3. Eat, alone. 4. Drive around, alone. 5. Get drunk, alone (well, without having to share a blood supply with someone else) 6. Get laid. Twins would be OK for that. 😉 **Orange Skinner,** combine that with some fake blood and you have one of those practical joke gone horribly wrong moments. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/16 "2003-07-06T20:12:41Z")
Masturbate! ---
**Author:** ![\_ceQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b9bd4f/32.png) [@\_ceQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_ceQueen)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/17 "2003-07-06T20:26:25Z")
I don’t get their religion thing. > [@](#): > > “If God wants us to live the rest of our lives as two separate, independent individuals, we will,” Ladan said. If they believe in God, wouldn’t it be more logical to continue being conjoined the way he created them? On subject: take a dump in peace, like the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/18 "2003-07-06T20:41:41Z")
What, no one has mentioned Disneyland yet? ---
**Author:** ![mrunlucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@mrunlucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrunlucky)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/19 "2003-07-06T20:45:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Snooooopy \* > \*\*What, no one has mentioned Disneyland yet? \*\* Yes, but see when conjoined, you always have someone to sit next to on a ride. No worries about getting stuck next to a crying child or smelly fat guy. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/20 "2003-07-06T21:26:14Z")
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