From the medical world (I am a medical student in Houston)…
At Baylor College of Medicine, one of our professors works on contraception in animals (Dr. Bonnie Dunbar). She has pigs trained to ejaculate on command. Not only do they have the corkscrew penis and all, but they have appx 15-30 minute orgasms and the ejaculate is I think around 1 liter (if I remember correctly). I think CA refers to the length of orgasm and the corkscrew penis in one of his books.
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The photic sneeze reflex is also called ACHOO, for autosomal dominant compelling helio-ophthalmic outburst syndrome. I guess a bunch of anesthesiologists had nothing better to do. CA refers to it in More of the Straight Dope I think.
There is just so much of this that begs comment, like:
Can she teach me that? I’ll tape record her command.
While this seems enviable, can you stop it. I mean are they committed to it for that period of time, what if the phone rings? And you could easily run out of hot water in the shower in that length of time.
This gives whole other meaning to coming in quarts. No one is gonna wanna sleep in that wet spot.
I don’t think I really want to be a pig after all.
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At Baylor College of Medicine, one of our professors works on contraception in animals (Dr. Bonnie Dunbar). She has pigs trained to ejaculate on command.
And to think that the Ignoble Awards was afraid that they might run out of contestants.
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Actually, she works on something fairly important. In parts of Africa, particularly in South African gameparks, there are too many elephants. Since elephants tend to get kind of rough with their surroundings (and eat a lot), the park managers have to cull them (by shooting them from helicopters). Dr. Dunbar is working on birth control for the elephants by looking for anti-sperm antibodies or antibodies against part of the oocyte. Her model is pigs.
When I say “on command,” what I really mean is that she has them conditioned that on mere sight of her or her technicians entering the room, they begin to ejaculate. Or so it is told…
[[When I say “on command,” what I really mean is that she has them conditioned that on mere sight of her or her technicians entering the room, they begin to ejaculate. Or so it is told…]]
That’s even funnier. What does that kind of thing do to one’s self image?
“she has them conditioned that on mere sight of her or her technicians entering the room, they begin to ejaculate.”
I know several middle-aged American men Victoria’s Secret has similarly conditioned on ‘mere sight’ of its latest catalogue in the mail box.
Perhaps, edwino, the awards you mentioned should be renamed Pignoble,
As to this ACHOO business . . . that was long ago refuted by the Guttmacher- Entwhistle Scale of Upper Nasal Divergence and Heliotropic Empathic Interaction Tolerances.
I assume the conditioning is probably purely Pavlovian. You know, candles, wine, and pig porn.
As to how these topics go together to form one thread :
Of course they have nothing in common.
I used to know quite a lot, and then I went to medical school. I then learned a whole new set of completely inane lore, and forgot my old knowledge of literature, history, philosophy, and everything else that counts. Luckily, now I am in grad school and they are slowly letting me learn the old stuff back. Of course, I am screwed when I have to go back and finish my last year of medical school. But such is life. At least I can show off some of the new knowledge on a chat board. And do digital rectal exams.
Oh, and if you liked this week’s episode of Reading Rainbow, here are some URLs you may want to read to learn more about pig jizzum and obscure reflexes.
