# "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:** 2
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/21 "2003-07-06T21:38:16Z")
I really am the only person who read this as un-cojoned and expected gripping tales of life after neutering! ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/22 "2003-07-06T21:49:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by !ceQueen \* > **If they believe in God, wouldn’t it be more logical to continue being conjoined the way he created them?** Because like most monotheists, they believe in free will. Free will is the opposite of fatalism. ---
**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, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/23 "2003-07-06T22:28:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Iteki \* > \*\*I really am the only person who read this as un-cojoned and expected gripping tales of life after neutering! \*\* Nope, **Iteki** , you’re not alone there…I read it as un-conjoned too. I did a double take, and then it was, “oh, _conjoined_…different. What the hell, I’ll check it out anyway.” ---
**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, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/24 "2003-07-06T22:32:54Z")
That first one should be “cojoned.” **jackelope** “Yeah, the doctors would have you believe it was a horribly risky, life threatening proceedure…puh-lease, that was nothing. Hell, it felt kinda good. I almost wish we were still connected so we could do it again. Sorta tickled.” ---
**Author:** ![raisinbread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/25 "2003-07-06T22:50:16Z")
Not wanting to come across as being tasteless but are there any conjoined twin dopers on the board or people who know conjoined twins? I’m interested in how they deal with the various TMI situations. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/26 "2003-07-06T23:07:24Z")
Chang and Eng, the original “Siamese Twins”, both married and had several children. Several other conjoined twins have married, too. [A Social History of Conjoined Twins](http://zygote.swarthmore.edu/cleave4b.html). ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/27 "2003-07-06T23:28:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zeldar \* > \*\*Even if it is possible, why would any two “sane” people want to? \*\* I take it you’re a virgin, then? 😉 ---
**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, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/28 "2003-07-06T23:42:01Z")
Tuckerfan Not as much as I used to be. (I almost included your proviso in my post, but figured nobody would think I meant that conjunction. Must have figured wrong.) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/29 "2003-07-06T23:47:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zeldar \* > \*\*Tuckerfan > > Not as much as I used to be. > > (I almost included your proviso in my post, but figured nobody would think I meant that conjunction. Must have figured wrong.) \*\* Heh. One thing to keep in mind about the Boards, if someone can make a smartassed comment or work in a sex joke (if not both), they’ll do it at the first opportunity.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/30 "2003-07-07T02:05:07Z")
Ever seen those American girls who only have two legs, and I think three arms? Maybe the third was removed when they were little. They’re totally stuck for life, which might be hard to deal with later. Who’s going to hire them to be in the office, or whatever? I suppose you could get used to it over time, but imagine the gasps from the customers, etc. Then there’s the subject of dating… [http://www.worldinvisible.com/newsltr/yr1997/jan/mary.htm](http://www.worldinvisible.com/newsltr/yr1997/jan/mary.htm) ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/31 "2003-07-07T03:00:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Orange Skinner \* > \*\*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. \*\* No, no , no. Sit down to dinner, heads together like alway. Then when someone asks for the salt, one of you lean WAY over and pass them the salt. Then put your head back up agaisnt your sister’s and go on eating as if nothing had happened. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/32 "2003-07-07T05:21:55Z")
Sing Harry Nilsson’s _One_. Really loud. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/33 "2003-07-07T06:43:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > **POWSMASHKERPLINK!** Don Martin? Is that you? ---
**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 7, 2003, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/34 "2003-07-07T12:44:21Z")
I thought of another lame one. Sit on the _other_ side. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/35 "2003-07-07T13:12:08Z")
MC Master of Ceremonies is funny. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/36 "2003-07-07T13:34:36Z")
I’d exchange my cardigans for pullovers. ---
**Author:** ![skeptic\_ev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@skeptic\_ev](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skeptic_ev)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/37 "2003-07-07T13:50:53Z")
Don’t feel too odd, **raisinbread**. I’ve wondered that too. On topic: ride a bike … or maybe walk through a door without turning sideways. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/38 "2003-07-07T13:58:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cardinal \* > \*\*Ever seen those American girls who only have two legs, and I think three arms? Maybe the third was removed when they were little. They’re totally stuck for life, which might be hard to deal with later. Who’s going to hire them to be in the office, or whatever? I suppose you could get used to it over time, but imagine the gasps from the customers, etc. Then there’s the subject of dating… > > [http://www.worldinvisible.com/newsltr/yr1997/jan/mary.htm](http://www.worldinvisible.com/newsltr/yr1997/jan/mary.htm) \*\* I have seen those girls. they are brave and cheery and quite full of life, hope, whatever. But I saw a news show about them, which showed them jumping rope, and I was pregnant at the time. It freaked me out no end. I don’t at all mean that in a mean way—I give a lot of credit to them and their parents. On topic, I thought “sit on the other side” was a good answer. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/39 "2003-07-07T17:28:35Z")
Three-way! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560/40 "2003-07-08T02:52:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spiff \* > \*\*Three-way! > > 😃 \*\* You kidding? I’d be ready for a _two_-way! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-un-conjoined-im-gonna/186560.md?page=3)