# Piercing? Branding? Passé. Now, there's tongue-splitting. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 13, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047 "2003-05-13T20:42:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047/1 "2003-05-13T20:42:06Z")
[Article](http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030513.wtung513/BNStory/International/):eek: It’s the ‘individually-prehensile’ bit that gets me… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047/2 "2003-05-13T20:49:22Z")
Eeeewww…that looks so disgusting. However, I’m guessing there are some um…added…“benefits”? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![swami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@swami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swami)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047/3 "2003-05-13T20:54:56Z")
Cooooooool… though I’d make mine more snake like. ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047/4 "2003-05-13T21:05:38Z")
Yeah, that’s really not a new occurrence in the Mod community. However, if you think _that’s_ extreme, I wouldn’t go googling ‘meatotomy’ then either. ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047/5 "2003-05-13T21:14:46Z")
**XJETGIRLX** … WHY WHY WHY did you tell us not to google that?!? That is the most revolting… _shudder_ oh my… I was almost sick. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047/6 "2003-05-13T21:22:58Z")
To be fair, she did tell you not to Google that. ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047/7 "2003-05-13T21:28:15Z")
Everyone knows that telling someone not to do something really makes us wish to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047/8 "2003-05-13T21:30:59Z")
:eek: Oh my EYES!!! May I just ask-what the hell is the POINT??? (meatology, that is…) ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047/9 "2003-05-13T21:32:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > :eek: Oh my EYES!!! > > May I just ask-what the hell is the POINT??? (meatology, that is…) Damned if I know. I told you **not** to look. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047/10 "2003-05-13T21:37:12Z")
Oh dear. I just _know_ I’m going to google that when I get home… ---
**Author:** ![BigDadDogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@BigDadDogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigDadDogg)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047/11 "2003-05-13T21:56:39Z")
Damn…Damn…Damn… You realize how extremely difficult it is to NOT go to Google now?? Arghhhhh!!! Stop, fingers…Stop! No…don’t do it…sit on your hands, fool! Oh hell…here I go… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047/12 "2003-05-13T22:39:44Z")
Oh, cool! I read about that in a fantasy book one time. Some kid had his tongue split so he could play this double-flute thing. I never thought it’d work in real life! ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047/13 "2003-05-13T22:52:27Z")
I picked up a body mod magazine the other day, just out of curiosity. Some people are crazy. And I googled meatotomy. The first page had no pictures, but a description. I’m satisfied now. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047/14 "2003-05-13T23:34:36Z")
Meatotomy? I think a friend back in Carolina described it as… Jest lahk a hot-dawg split down th’ middle! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047/15 "2003-05-14T00:08:26Z")
_twitch_ _whimper_ I googled. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Ferris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ferris/32/11573_2.png) [@Ferris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferris)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047/16 "2003-05-14T03:37:33Z")
I merely read the spoiler… that was enough. _twitch_ _whimper_ _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047/17 "2003-05-14T03:51:00Z")
Lispers of the world unite! (My tongue is intact and I already have a little lisp, kind of like when Tobey Maguire says “I’m sssthpiderman!”) ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047/18 "2003-05-14T03:52:06Z")
The _pictures_…my god…oh…lord. I think I even surprised **Catalyst** when sending him a link. It’s hard to surprise him when it comes to these things, ain’t it, buddy? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047/19 "2003-05-14T03:58:16Z")
I still want to know what the point of that is? I mean, would it enhance sex-or would it make it more difficult? ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piercing-branding-passe-now-theres-tongue-splitting/175047/20 "2003-05-14T04:25:16Z")
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