# Woman swallows table knife. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 2, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-swallows-table-knife/630202 "2012-08-02T18:11:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-swallows-table-knife/630202/21 "2012-08-03T00:16:21Z")
> [@Antigen](#): > > I have \*got \*to get to that museum someday. oh, ya, you betcha, it is a hoot. come on up! ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-swallows-table-knife/630202/22 "2012-08-03T03:43:18Z")
I see a lucrative new line of work for this woman - sword swallower. ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-swallows-table-knife/630202/23 "2012-08-03T09:47:38Z")
> [@Antigen](#): > > I have \*got \*to get to that museum someday. Oh, my, yes. The only thing that has made me doubt my chosen partner in life is that he doesn’t have the wild affection that I have for the Mutter. We even got let in for free since they were closing early for a reception and they felt that we’d be overspending to not have the full experience. Class AND Giant Colons. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-swallows-table-knife/630202/24 "2012-08-03T10:04:53Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Waitaminit…the implication is that she had made herself throw up so many times she no longer had a gag reflex. > > So how does she continue to make herself barf? Ingest something nasty? > > Edit: Answer to my own question, from Wikipedia: Could be, but not likely. Ipecac’s pretty unusual, even for bulimics. People who throw up a lot (those with bulimia, sure, but also some unfortunate chemo patients or those with GI disease) eventually do it without gagging. Just takes practice, it seems, but they can open their sphincters and reverse peristalsis without the “hurk hurk bleargh!” thing. I bet sword swallowers don’t gag when they throw up. They’ve got the sphincter control down to an art. I’ve puked without gagging twice - once when pregnant, and once when ill with gastroenteritis. It wasn’t on purpose, but it was just this oddly gentle stream of vomit with no effort or pain whatsoever. It was almost pleasant, as vomiting goes… ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-swallows-table-knife/630202/25 "2012-08-03T12:53:11Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > “hurk hurk bleargh!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-swallows-table-knife/630202/26 "2012-08-05T00:55:57Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > Several years ago I worked at a teaching hospital in Tulsa. The medical library had a display created by one of the proctologists on staff of items removed from the rectum. > > (before someone else says it… “rectum? Damn near killed 'im!” Makes me think of Scrubs- Guy one: I fell on it. Guy two: Fell on it. Guy three: Fell on it. Guy four: I was bored! and also, the guy with the light bulb gave us this gem from Dr. Cox- “Either this guy’s got a light bulb up his kiester, or his colon’s got a great idea.” ---
**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:** [August 5, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-swallows-table-knife/630202/27 "2012-08-05T01:19:44Z")
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