# Odd Experiences

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-experiences/266494>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 28, 2004, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-experiences/266494 "2004-09-28T15:17:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-experiences/266494/61 "2004-10-03T21:18:54Z")

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Well, it’s not really odd, but it was definitely a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

I was up in the crater at Mt. Saint Helens a few years ago, an area which is usually restricted to scientists. I tagged along with my geologist friends from university on their field trip to the Cascades range, and we got a USGS-guided tour of the crater and the lava dome. I got to have lunch in the crater at Mt. Saint Helens, and I’m not even a geologist!

Of course, nobody thought that was cool at all until the mountain started acting up again this week. Now everyone looks at me with awe and envy!

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-experiences/266494/62 "2004-10-03T22:18:27Z")

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I lost my rubber penis one day while playing in the river. I found it a few miles downstream, holding on for dear life to a tree branch overhanging the dam. It was petrefied, let me tell ya. Scared stiff.

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**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-experiences/266494/63 "2004-10-03T22:21:21Z")

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> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> I lost my rubber penis one day while playing in the river. I found it a few miles downstream, holding on for dear life to a tree branch overhanging the dam. It was petrefied, let me tell ya. Scared stiff.

Was it detachable or what? 😃  
[http://www.asklyrics.com/display/King\_missile/Detachable\_penis\_Lyrics/25950.htm](http://www.asklyrics.com/display/King_missile/Detachable_penis_Lyrics/25950.htm)

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**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-experiences/266494/64 "2004-10-03T23:34:18Z")

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I used to work at a vet’s office (I did the nasty grunt work), and therefore saw some pretty odd things. But my oddest experience was watching one of the head vets cut off a dog’s head. The dog had bitten a small boy and was put to sleep. The vet had to cut off the head in order to send it out for testing for rabies.

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