# So does anyone remember... (warning: not for the weak of heart) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 3, 2001, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220 "2001-05-03T15:27:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220/21 "2001-05-04T00:17:25Z")
Shame on all of you, this woman is sick and all you can do is joke. Oh by the way, did I tell you about the woman who walks into a doctor’s office. The doctor kindly grabs her elbow to escort her into the exam room. Her reply – “unhand me, you lout!” ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220/22 "2001-05-04T13:25:15Z")
Where’s **handy** when you need him? ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220/23 "2001-05-04T13:51:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by deb2world \* > > Shame on all of you, this woman is sick and all you can do is joke. Don’t you to try to strong arm me out of this thread. We can’t respond to every issue with a heavy hand ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220/24 "2001-05-04T14:53:32Z")
There’s a very simple explanation. She had to postpone her “surgery” because it would have been a little more than she bargained for. It turns out to be so expensive that it would have cost her an arm and a leg. Oy. This thread easily wins the bad joke award hands-down. ---
**Author:** ![Jus\_lookin\_Round](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@Jus\_lookin\_Round](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jus_lookin_Round)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220/25 "2001-05-04T15:08:52Z")
Come on guys! All she wants is a little plastic surgery! Who knows? Maybe she has a nose picking problem. ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220/26 "2001-05-04T15:59:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jus’ lookin’ Round \* > \*\*Come on guys! All she wants is a little plastic surgery! Who knows? Maybe she has a nose picking problem. \*\* And she can pick from such an astonishing variety these days. Hell, she could even pick somebody else’s nose if she wanted to. From a greeting card: When asked to name her favorite body part, Amy picked her nose. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220/27 "2001-05-04T16:42:55Z")
So what’s the big deal? Can’t be any worse than when I had both of my legs cut off and went bumming around the country. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220/28 "2001-05-04T16:52:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diane \* > \*\*So what’s the big deal? Can’t be any worse than when I had both of my legs cut off and went bumming around the country. \*\* Admit it, Diane. You’re lying. That story doesn’t have a leg to stand on ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220/29 "2001-05-04T17:41:53Z")
Y’know, I’m really alarmed at the underhanded way you all have hijacked my thread. You’re not going to hook me into this one, and I’m certainly not going to give you hand in it. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2001, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220/30 "2001-05-04T18:06:18Z")
::singing:: Wouldn’t you give your hand to a friend . . . ---
**Author:** ![johnny\_fishface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@johnny\_fishface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnny_fishface)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220/31 "2001-05-04T18:21:34Z")
cheezed off wrote: > [@](#): > > I can’t recall the name of it, but there is a real psychiatric disorder that involves the person wanting body parts cut off. Very few American doctors will willingly amputate limbs that do not need to be removed. this was bothering me all day and I finally found it: > [@](#): > > Apotembnophilia is defined as “obtaining sexual gratification from limb removal.” There are approximately 200 known apotembnophiliacs worldwide (I wonder how many we don’t know about), with the most famous case being Dr. John Ronald Brown, a doctor who was known for happily amputating healthy limbs, and who was jailed on two separate occasions for botched sex-change operations which he performed in hotels or his garage. jarbaby wrote: > [@](#): > > ## quote: > > ## Originally posted by Diane So what’s the big deal? Can’t be any worse than when I had both of my legs cut off and went bumming around the country. > > Admit it, Diane. You’re lying. That story doesn’t have a leg to stand on She was just trying to get a leg up on the competition. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220/32 "2001-05-04T19:43:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Admit it, Diane. You’re lying. That story doesn’t have a leg to stand on. It’s a **leg** itimate story! Don’t make me walk over there and kick your ass! . . . .er. . . . I mean, hit you! ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220/33 "2001-05-04T20:33:43Z")
Gives new meaning to “If you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” \< shudder \> ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220/34 "2001-05-04T20:46:07Z")
I have only one question: What is going to happen after she gets her wish? I mean, that will make her happy, right? So she will be happy and she’ll know it… ---
**Author:** ![kjorsty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kjorsty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjorsty)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220/35 "2001-05-04T22:34:29Z")
anyone ever read “Circus Geek”? there was a woman, who is considered a performance artist, that is going through a series of plastic surgeries. she replaces parts of her body or has them altered to replicate details from paintings and sculptures considered classically beautiful. I can’t remember her name, darn it. Could someone give me a hand? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lestrange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/aca169/32.png) [@lestrange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lestrange)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220/36 "2001-05-04T23:44:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kjorsty \* > \*\* > > there was a woman, who is considered a performance artist, that is going through a series of plastic surgeries. she replaces parts of her body or has them altered to replicate details from paintings and sculptures considered classically beautiful. I can’t remember her name, darn it. Could someone give me a hand? 😉 \*\* That would be Orlan. She appeared on the CDrom Eve, which is how I know about her. Very creepy. She’s got a website at [http://www.cicv.fr/creation\_artistique/online/orlan/](http://www.cicv.fr/creation_artistique/online/orlan/) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220/37 "2001-05-05T02:02:32Z")
Does anybody here have the nerve to E-mail this chopped-chick & find out what she might have to say about her hobby? \*\*jarbabyj! \*\*You got a winning way with words. You contact her. Get her onto the SDMB. She could start her own thread. Promise her some power tools… > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by pulykamell \* > > > > (Somebody, please, shoot us.) > > YIKES! Don’t tell me these people are armed! \*\* **Dis-armed**. :wally ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220/38 "2001-05-05T02:09:48Z")
If she goes through with it, I just hope she has two birds for her bush. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220/39 "2001-05-05T03:51:46Z")
I wonder if her friends will start calling her fiance, Rob, Mr. Smee? I bet she’s afraid of alligators and ticking clocks. ---
**Author:** ![johnny\_fishface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@johnny\_fishface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnny_fishface)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220/40 "2001-05-05T04:18:18Z")
> [@](#): > > I wonder if her friends will start calling her fiance, Rob, Mr. Smee? He’s really the most disturbing part of the story, isn’t he? But, you’ve gotta hand it to him, he’s really got her hooked. (Then again, 10 years ago it would have been really cool to have built in roach clips.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-does-anyone-remember-warning-not-for-the-weak-of-heart/64220.md?page=3)