# Ok, now this got me thinking... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 8, 2007, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096 "2007-03-08T14:11:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096/21 "2007-03-08T20:40:10Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Yikes! Does that stack up, then? Where does it come out? [/QUOTE] Politicians’ speeches and political pundits’ commentaries. ---
**Author:** ![Crimson\_Ghost138](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Crimson\_Ghost138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crimson_Ghost138)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096/22 "2007-03-08T21:13:24Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Yikes! Does that stack up, then? Where does it come out? [/QUOTE] MTV? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096/23 "2007-03-08T21:13:47Z")
Is is an African albatross or a European albatross? Can anyone get me to stick to Jessica Alba? ---
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096/24 "2007-03-09T00:28:06Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Yikes! Does that stack up, then? Where does it come out? [/QUOTE] A colostomy? ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096/25 "2007-03-09T00:49:17Z")
[QUOTE=Muffin] Videos of dogs surgically joined together by Vladimir Demikhov in the USSR in the 50s: [http://www.tvdata.ru/video.php?id=365&sfpath=1&iframe=5&list=0¶m=0](http://www.tvdata.ru/video.php?id=365&sfpath=1&iframe=5&list=0¶m=0) [http://www.tvdata.ru/video.php?id=365&sfpath=1&iframe=7&list=0¶m=0](http://www.tvdata.ru/video.php?id=365&sfpath=1&iframe=7&list=0¶m=0) We won’t go into what Robert White in the USA has done with monkey heads since then, other than to question whether the Shrub was one of his experiments, and if so, whether or not it was a success. [/QUOTE] Whoa, that’s some freaky shit. Was White the guy who kept severed monkey heads alive? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096/26 "2007-03-09T01:39:22Z")
[QUOTE=Darryl Lict] Whoa, that’s some freaky shit. Was White the guy who kept severed monkey heads alive? [/QUOTE] Yes. There is a pic of that out on the www but I thought it best to no post the link. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096/27 "2007-03-09T04:55:40Z")
What if two people fused together and the bond was infinitely strong; however, along comes an infinitely sharp ginzu knife, capable of cutting any bond. What happens, and when do I get my pie? ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096/28 "2007-03-09T06:34:03Z")
When the OP comes back. And clearly the fused couple would use the ginzu knife to prepare a meal the likes of which have not been seen. Or they use the knife to break into banks across America… ---
**Author:** ![Crimson\_Ghost138](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Crimson\_Ghost138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crimson_Ghost138)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096/29 "2007-03-09T06:56:15Z")
I think they’d use it to cut blocks out the ground and see how far they could get down. > [@](#): > > What happens, and when do I get my pie? pop round on sunday, im havin pie for my tea then… ---
**Author:** ![mischievous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mischievous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mischievous)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096/30 "2007-03-09T07:14:24Z")
On the offchance that the OP wants a serious answer: No, there would be immune rejection between the two people unless you (a) used identical twins, or (b) used immunologically matched people and heavy-duty immunosuppressants. The dog heads referenced above didn’t live very long due to lack of immunocompatibility. This sort of thing (fused at the shoulder) is occasionally done in genetically compatible mice in order to get two mice which share a blood supply. It’s pretty rare because you need something really important to justify doing radical surgery on mice, but they do seem to be pretty happy afterward (if funny looking). mischievous ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096/31 "2007-03-09T15:33:33Z")
Is anyone else thinking of Dr. Clayton Forrester’s double butt graft? (“I grafted the butt of a dog onto the butt of a cat. They all laughed . . .”) ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096/32 "2007-03-09T15:46:21Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] let no man put assunder…" [/QUOTE] _More_ religious homophobia! :mad: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096/33 "2007-03-09T15:55:10Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] _More_ religious homophobia! :mad: 😃 [/QUOTE] As they say, “It’s in the Bible.” Speaking of which, a buddy of mine conviced this airhead who liked to eat at the same table as us that Bronko Nagurski, even though he wasn’t one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, was also in the Bible. ---
**Author:** ![Potato\_Pancakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Potato\_Pancakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Potato_Pancakes)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096/34 "2007-03-09T16:36:43Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Yikes! Does that stack up, then? Where does it come out? [/QUOTE] Sometimes, it doesn’t. Hence the morbidly obese. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096/35 "2007-03-09T16:46:52Z")
[QUOTE=Count Blucher] Gabriel Byrne 3-way [/QUOTE] ::ears perk up ---
**Author:** ![VanillaGorilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@VanillaGorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanillaGorilla)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096/36 "2007-03-09T17:09:32Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] Is is an African albatross or a European albatross? Can anyone get me to stick to Jessica Alba? [/QUOTE] Well I don’t know tha _AAAaargh.._ {/monty python] ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096/37 "2007-03-09T18:23:43Z")
Anyone ever hear of an “Elephantoplasty”? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096/38 "2007-03-09T18:31:25Z")
[QUOTE=Dragwyr] Anyone ever hear of an “Elephantoplasty”? [/QUOTE] Sure. But never Rhinophant unless it’s a subspecies of Sycophant and I could see how it might fit. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096/39 "2007-03-09T23:18:36Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Well, the real question here is what would happen if you did this using an elephant and a rhino as your subjects. [/QUOTE] 'Eliphino! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-now-this-got-me-thinking/395096/40 "2007-03-09T23:53:53Z")
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