Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Edward Caliguri wrote: > > Yes - it's an urban legend. > I hope this brain consumption thing is done with. Yes - some cultures did > consume ancestral brain remains. That's how Jacob-Kreutzfeld disease, the > human form of "Scrapie" or "Mad Cow" disease was first discovered. I'd even > stay away from Haggis nowadays. Years ago I had it and it's pretty good, but > I would not take a chance now. Prions are very hard to eliminate, even by > cooking. Cameras are immune - so photograph others eating the stuff!! > Ed > > > Did you actually *read* the article? The point of it is that this is > > very likely an urban legend and it goes on to show why one should > > suspect this. > > > > Besides, gorillas are not monkeys. They are apes. > > > > M. > You can buy brains at the Safeway. They call them something else. And there's rubber bands around them so you don't loose a finger when you pick one up. Dead brains. Long dead. Synapses no longer firing. Cow no longer screaming. Grey matter getting greyer. For ease of shipping they remove the brain from the cow. Oh! and first they kill the cow - its a tricky sequence. To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time... Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabinergroup.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html