MOVIE OF THE WEEK
Here's a good date flick.
Key Quote: We see a volunteer biologist swallow tapeworm larvae and, 11 weeks later, excrete a worm that has grown to more than two metres.
Update: Turns out this is a registration site. It's about a BBC documentary series called Body Snatchers, about parasites, which as the BBC has already shown can be a ton of fun.
Holy crap.
...
Eugh.
Posted by: Kanchi | February 23, 2005 at 04:54 PM
MOTW? Muahaha!
Posted by: Marvin | Paranoid Android | February 23, 2005 at 04:54 PM
That bioligist needs a life. Anyone got a free one?
Posted by: opiesgirl | February 23, 2005 at 04:55 PM
*reads update, is suddenly glad that the site requires @#$^! registration*
Posted by: Marvin | Paranoid Android | February 23, 2005 at 04:56 PM
Sorry I meant biologist.
I thought the whole idea was to avoid parasites.
Posted by: opiesgirl | February 23, 2005 at 04:57 PM
So it's a diet show then?
Posted by: Christobol | February 23, 2005 at 05:05 PM
Gross, disgusting eewww. Where can I get the video tape.
Posted by: opiesgirl | February 23, 2005 at 05:07 PM
Yum - time for dinner! Botflies, anyone?
Posted by: Higgy | February 23, 2005 at 05:08 PM
Anybody got a hack with an email address and password to get around the registration?
Posted by: Eric | February 23, 2005 at 05:10 PM
What's the big deal? It's not like tapeworms contain trans fats.
Posted by: reneviht | February 23, 2005 at 05:17 PM
hahaha
good!!
i want to dinner!!!
Posted by: yutao | February 23, 2005 at 05:19 PM
hahaha
good!!
i want to dinner!!!
Posted by: yutao | February 23, 2005 at 05:19 PM
now that is what you call "wormy"
Posted by: cubie | February 23, 2005 at 05:21 PM
Okay I didn't read this but I do not like . . .
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | February 23, 2005 at 05:25 PM
I'll post something as soon as I regain consciousness.
*faint*
Posted by: slyeyes | February 23, 2005 at 05:29 PM
what about the guy who kept crab lice alive on his arm for 2 days? that is, like, gross me out, man
Posted by: cubie | February 23, 2005 at 05:31 PM
They pulled larva out of some chick's head.
Ewww.
Posted by: Zach Foote | February 23, 2005 at 05:32 PM
or, more like, gag me with a botfly
Posted by: cubie | February 23, 2005 at 05:32 PM
the guy who swallowed the tape worm larvae should really consider applying for "Fear Factor"
Posted by: cubie | February 23, 2005 at 05:35 PM
Ew.
Spew.
Flew.
...way the hell away from that disgusting parasite pic on the BBC site.
Posted by: Alex D. | February 23, 2005 at 05:35 PM
Yup. Perfect date flick.
If you both puke, or not, you might be compatible.
If one does and the other not, mebbe there's too much difference in your personality/background.
Bet the concession stand goes broke tho ...
Posted by: u.o. | February 23, 2005 at 05:40 PM
"Disgusting Parasites" wbagnfarb
Posted by: cubie | February 23, 2005 at 05:40 PM
What does it mean if neither of you stop chewing your chocolate bars?I'm the son and stepson of veterinarians. Tapeworms were a common theme of dinner conversation in my house.
Posted by: reneviht | February 23, 2005 at 05:42 PM
bet that was appetizing dinner conversation
Posted by: cubie | February 23, 2005 at 05:46 PM
"I lost 36 pounds the Slimfast way!"
"I went to the Barix clinic and had my nipples removed! What? They weighted like, 19 pounds a piece!"
"Oh yeah? Well, I lost over 86 pounds by stuffing a cup of maggots up my arse before every meal, and at those troublesome snack times."
Posted by: Christobol | February 23, 2005 at 05:46 PM
it would help if I learned how to spell, but I was really trying to use the new Microsoft lingo
Posted by: cubie | February 23, 2005 at 05:48 PM
reneviht --
I'd guess that you're prolly pretty compatible ... at least in this area,
no pukes is good news ... to coin a phrase.
Posted by: U.O. | February 23, 2005 at 06:04 PM
*regains consciousness, looks at article*
*faint*
Damn
Posted by: slyeyes | February 23, 2005 at 06:10 PM
Moral of the story....Stay away from Costa Rica!....and Nepal...
Posted by: julietine | February 23, 2005 at 06:35 PM
Eric: Taking a tip from a comment on a previous post, I got the goods from www.bugmenot.com
Username: theferaleye
Password: cartoons1
...But you WON'T thank them for it.
Posted by: burrhaz | February 23, 2005 at 06:42 PM
*dialing rapidly*
Hello? User support? Hi. I have a problem. What's my asset number? Well, that's part of the problem, I can't see it. In fact I can't see anything of my PC just now. Or much of the surrounding cubicle. And only parts of the workmate in the next cubicle. What happened? Well, you see, I had just finished lunch and I starting reading a new Bave Barry blog entry.....
Posted by: wysiwyg | February 23, 2005 at 07:08 PM
I have seen this program - if you read the update link it was released in 2003. I have a pretty strong stomach from working in hospitals, and I thought it was pretty damn gross at times, so it's not for the faint of heart.
Posted by: djtonyb | February 23, 2005 at 07:38 PM
Botflies and leaches and three foot long tapeworms,
Being a landlord to all of God's lifeforms,
Worms that have hooks and worms that leave rings,
Nothing could make me eat one of those things!
See what she looked like when botflies attacked her,
See creatures too gross to appear on 'Fear Factor',
Passing worms by the meter must sting,
On a date, your nose-leech will ruin everything!
When you're tired of
your co-workers
Think of them this way:
They're just parasites in the corporate 'host'
So 'naturally' it's o.k.!!
Posted by: insomniac | February 23, 2005 at 09:11 PM
"Every living thing has at least one parasite and many creatures, including humans, have far more."
I bet there's a lawyer joke in there somewhere.
Posted by: charleyfoxtrot | February 24, 2005 at 12:31 AM
Whiskey, tango, foxtrot, what the fuck?
Posted by: Arcane Jill | February 24, 2005 at 01:22 AM
ugghhh,
what a waste of good tapeworm larvae.
the biologist should be ashamed of himself-subjecting those poor tape worm larvae to live on the contents of his stinking intestine,
I suggest we start a movement for more ethical treatment of tapeworms and other internal parasites.
Posted by: david | February 24, 2005 at 03:59 AM
ugghhh,
what a waste of good tapeworm larvae.
the biologist should be ashamed of himself-subjecting those poor tape worm larvae to live on the contents of his stinking intestine,
I suggest we start a movement for more ethical treatment of tapeworms and other internal parasites.
Posted by: david | February 24, 2005 at 04:02 AM
ewwww. did i mention, ewwwwww! ich.
Posted by: queensbee | February 24, 2005 at 05:15 AM
I'm partial to the name "Botfly and the Aquatic Leeches".....gnfarb? punk surfer band?
Posted by: russell | February 24, 2005 at 06:36 AM