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An intestinal worm in her eye socket? That's what happens when you have your head up your ass.
Posted by: Mr. Completely | February 15, 2006 at 02:57 PM
What, No pictures?!
Posted by: john | February 15, 2006 at 02:58 PM
the headline was enough for me. i so do not want to know anything about this. ewww ewww ewww.
Posted by: crossgirl | February 15, 2006 at 02:58 PM
So that's why my granddaughter said, "Yes, but it's wiggling around" when I asked her if I had an eyelash in my eye.
Posted by: rita | February 15, 2006 at 02:59 PM
Could have been worse, I guess...
Posted by: john | February 15, 2006 at 03:01 PM
**wretch, wretch**
eww, eww, eww. so nasty ... so very, very nasty.
Posted by: OriginalEnigma | February 15, 2006 at 03:03 PM
I'm with John; I have one very serious problem with this story, and that it is that there are no pictures.
When you tell me not to click on a link, and I click on it anyway, it's because I REALLY want to be grossed-out!
Posted by: Tamara Rhymes With Camera | February 15, 2006 at 03:03 PM
me too crossgirl, the headline told me more than I even wanted to know - yuk!
Posted by: Eleanor | February 15, 2006 at 03:04 PM
Oh goody. And I was going to have worm lo mein for dinner.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | February 15, 2006 at 03:05 PM
Is that an intestinal worm in your eye socket, or are you just glad to see me?
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | February 15, 2006 at 03:05 PM
I'm not with John anymore. That's not funny or gross; it's sad.
Posted by: Tamara Rhymes With Judge of What Is Funny | February 15, 2006 at 03:05 PM
That story was bad enough, but this one is worse. *sobs*
Posted by: MOTW | February 15, 2006 at 03:06 PM
here, here Tamara (RWJOWF) ... the story about the little girl is sad.
the eye socket thing is still funny (if you permit me to say so ... your honor).
Posted by: OriginalEnigma | February 15, 2006 at 03:08 PM
Maybe I'm on the wrong Dave Barry blog...
Posted by: Tamara Rhymes With Camera | February 15, 2006 at 03:08 PM
11 cm long(4.33070866 inches) - almost long enough to be a pet in South FL, eh?
Of course, once they get over 6 or 8 feet, they'll just start letting them loose in the everglades... .
Posted by: john | February 15, 2006 at 03:09 PM
It would probably be a Really Bad Idea for me to suggest that the thought of this story may pop into your heads the next time you have ramen noodles. I mean, if I did that, many college kids wouldn't be able to eat and could starve!
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | February 15, 2006 at 03:09 PM
SNORK@ Mr. C. Belated but deserved.
Posted by: KOW | February 15, 2006 at 03:10 PM
You're the apple of my eye, yes..But lately there has been a big worm in it..
Posted by: Sean | February 15, 2006 at 03:10 PM
MOTW, don't go there. It is easy to pull up atrocities.
Posted by: Prairie Dog | February 15, 2006 at 03:11 PM
But I bet the kid, at least, knew he'd been shot.
Posted by: john | February 15, 2006 at 03:12 PM
Hideously gross, but makes me think of this, which is some consolation.
Posted by: Blue Meanie | February 15, 2006 at 03:18 PM
Ok, you guys are bummin' me out with your links - not really what I came here for
Posted by: TCK | February 15, 2006 at 03:19 PM
OK, nuthin' wrong with the last two links - sorry - didn't mean to generalize
Posted by: TCK | February 15, 2006 at 03:21 PM
So both Pencilman and Wormgirl are from Belgrade. Just what the hell is going on there?
Posted by: Cheesewiz | February 15, 2006 at 03:22 PM
Generaleyes?
Posted by: Blue Meanie | February 15, 2006 at 03:22 PM
Lab...you realize I'm not going to be able to eat dinner tonight.
Posted by: Joy, the college student | February 15, 2006 at 03:23 PM
Khan! It was you, wasn't it, you bastard! Getting your wrath on again....
Posted by: Captain Kirk | February 15, 2006 at 03:25 PM
Sorry, Joy. Okay, I'm not really sorry, but I know I should be. Does that count for anything?
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | February 15, 2006 at 03:26 PM
Blue - has anyone ever suggested to you that maybe, just maybe, yer not firin' on all 8 cylinders?
Posted by: TCK | February 15, 2006 at 03:28 PM
i remember this story! the city worm had to go roaming away from its comfy intestine to go poking around the host's eye socket and got pulled out ,but the country worm stayed at home and grew so fat on his host's leavings that he burst, giving peritonitis to people in the next province.
and they don't teach values anymore!
Posted by: insomniac | February 15, 2006 at 03:29 PM
Joy, I've got a pantry full of Chef Boyardee; I'll loan you a can!
Just ignore Lab; he hates instant foods, people who eat instant foods, and people. ;) *runs away*
Posted by: Tamara Rhymes With Camera | February 15, 2006 at 03:31 PM
The Ascaris family has been looking for the worm since last week and are relieved it's finally back home where it belongs.
In other news: EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWW!
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | February 15, 2006 at 03:32 PM
Joy, look (har) at it this way: more money for beer.
Posted by: John | February 15, 2006 at 03:32 PM
i join in the throng: [that's thRong]: ewww, ewww, ewwwww, and an extra ewwww.
Posted by: queensbee | February 15, 2006 at 03:35 PM
*snork* @ Mr C
This worm needs the same glasses that the Police Officer from the previous post should be wearing. Maybe there needs to be a GPS system for intestinal worms so they can find their way to the correct portion of the body.
Posted by: CoastRaven | February 15, 2006 at 03:39 PM
TCK - there are supposed to be 8? Wait, I thought they were canisters......
Posted by: Blue Meanie | February 15, 2006 at 03:39 PM
Tamara Rhymes With Ramen, I do NOT hate all people. I like me. And The Wench. That's two.
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | February 15, 2006 at 03:51 PM
Lab~ Don't you like Dave and judi? C'mon now.
Posted by: Bumble | February 15, 2006 at 03:54 PM
AND you love me and wish that you were pregnant with my babies, whom you would love as well. So that's... Hey, you like at least seven people! Wow! Plus you like Judi and Dave, so that's nine. Hey, and don't you have kids of your own that you like...to torture? So we're up to some number over ten now! I owe you an apology, Lab; I was definitely incorrect. Except, I never actually used the word "all"...
Posted by: Tamara Rhymes With Camera | February 15, 2006 at 03:57 PM
If anyone's interested, I am in the process of job-hunting so that I someday I won't be able to spend so much time here. All this posting is just making up for future lost-time.
Posted by: Tamara Rhymes With Camera | February 15, 2006 at 03:59 PM
I refuse to address my typographical error as it would require me to make three posts back-to-back.
Posted by: Tamara Rhymes With Camera | February 15, 2006 at 04:00 PM
Blue, is generaleyes related to slyeyes?
and
*snork* at Insom.
Yes, I know I'm not first, I meant *snork* at Insom!
Posted by: southerngirl | February 15, 2006 at 04:11 PM
This is why I love the blog so much. Everytime I think about going off of my diet I see a story like this and dont eat for another week.
Posted by: Addicted to 24 | February 15, 2006 at 04:23 PM
Actually it reminds me of when my high school history teacher told us about some book that revealed the shocking secrets of meat factories.
"It'll put you off meat for a month!"
Posted by: Joy | February 15, 2006 at 04:29 PM
Is this another python story? I'm DEFINITELY not going to click on any of these links (Mama might have raised some ugly kids but she didn't raise no dummies!)... not while I'm sober, anyway...
Does the blog have a new subtitle "Gross and Grosser"?
Posted by: Mad Soapboxer | February 15, 2006 at 04:36 PM
I didn't mean to cause a problem with the link I posted. It was included on Dave's link as one of the Top 5 World Stories. I clicked and went emotional. Sorry.
Tamara RWC - a Loaner Can is probably better than a Loner Can, IYKWIM.
Posted by: MOTW | February 15, 2006 at 04:55 PM
Gee, I told you guys I am here on my lunch hour. And I am eating a box dinner of noodles and meatballs, when I see an article about a tape-worm in somebody's eye. Long flat noodles. I may never eat again....
Posted by: Grossed out Hanna | February 15, 2006 at 05:31 PM
The eye-worm diet. I get to copyright it.
Posted by: John | February 15, 2006 at 08:23 PM
This is probably as fake a story as the one about Mr Pencil Penis from the same general neighborhood. Someone with a medical background help me out here. For an intestinal worm the size of this baby to travel through the blood stream to the upper body would necessitate it passing through the heart. That would have stopped the lady's clock. Ergo, didn't happen. Slow news day in Belgrade; reporter takes out Urban Legends book; names and locales change; uneducated locals believe what they read. This story is patently false.
Posted by: Stupendous Man | February 15, 2006 at 09:00 PM
SM - just go for the joke, OK, hon? :)
TCK - I didn't look at any of the links and you don't have to either - chill out, sweetie! :)
Posted by: Blog Mom | February 15, 2006 at 09:05 PM
Stupendous - you put that Ergo in there for El, dincha?
Posted by: Blue Meanie | February 15, 2006 at 09:14 PM
Stupe - it could have started out small and grown bigger once it reached its er, destination. Now, excuse, we're having spaghetti for dinner...really!
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | February 15, 2006 at 09:19 PM
I have to agree with Stupendous. Either that or what is with those people?
Posted by: sparrow | February 15, 2006 at 11:04 PM
Stupe - I have to differ with you. There's another way.
Posted by: Mr. Completely | February 15, 2006 at 11:54 PM
Generaleyes? Well, yes, he's a relation. According to family legend, he is my great great great grandpappy who served with (and drank with) General Stonewall "By God" Jackson at Harper's Ferry. After the war, Generaleyes became a gentleman farmer, raising worms and nightcrawlers for his business "Generaleyes Bait Shop" (motto: don't put these in your eyes).
Posted by: slyeyes | February 16, 2006 at 12:17 AM
I'll keep an eye out for you.
Posted by: Mr. Completely | February 16, 2006 at 01:04 AM
Mr. C - I don't see how being in management would have anything to do with it.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | February 16, 2006 at 01:31 AM
*SNORK* at Annie...
Posted by: Mr. Completely | February 16, 2006 at 02:25 AM
Okay, already! I send in what I believe to be a genuine story, months ago, about seven miles of used condoms (side note: what do you do with 365 used condoms? You roll them in a ball and call it a good year) floating in the Pacific and drawing closer to the ecologically sensitive North Pole. Does it get posted so we can have fun with it? No. Instead I get a slap up side the head...I mean a note from the blogwarden (read judi) telling me the story is an urban legend (side note: I asked Keith Urban about it and he said, "What's a condom?") Now the usually astute, no nonsense bwahahahahahahehehehesnorksnortsnorkhawhawhawwhewwwithinkihurtmyself*gasp* blogsters want me to play along with these inane threads as though they are real and...oooohhh, look! Something shiny!
Posted by: Stupendous Man | February 16, 2006 at 04:11 AM
You mean they don't blog fake news stories? All of these are real???
Huh.
Posted by: slyeyes | February 16, 2006 at 06:56 AM
Stupendous - think it's maybe time to up the dosage a bit?
See
Posted by: Blue Meanie | February 16, 2006 at 09:21 AM
OK - you didn't see that. What you saw was this:
Stupendous - think it's maybe time to up the dosage a bit?
See here, which is my first source for checking out things that look like BS that are circulated on the web. I tried to find the pencil and eyeworm stories there, but no luck. I'm not saying this eliminates them from the ranks of Urban Legendhood, but it does mean there's nothing at this popular site that can get Judi "Gotcha'd".
Posted by: Blue Meanie | February 16, 2006 at 09:22 AM
I don't really know why I'm chiming in on this, but I will.
When I was in college (before photoshop was invented) we saw pictures in zoology class of roundworms in a person's eye. They don't go through the bloodstream; they crawl up the person's esophagus into the nasal cavity and then through the tear duct into the eye.
Posted by: spinner8 | February 16, 2006 at 09:39 AM
Here's some more info on roundworms (with pictures of the worms).
Also, it wouldn't have to have entered the eye at that full size. Some ascaris species travel through the bloodstream when they are small, then travel to other parts of the body and grow there. That could be how it ended up that large in someone's eye socket. So, tear duct, blood stream, whatever.
There's plenty of gross stuff that really does happen.
(And, if you want gross photos, just do a google image search for ascaris.)
Posted by: spinner8 | February 16, 2006 at 09:50 AM
Mr C - yes, that would work.
Everyone else - pin worms, a small round worm, are a cause of blindness in the poorer parts of the world. They actually end up in the eyeball itself. And they are one of the targets when you worm your pet.
And Blue Meanie - I'm still freaked by the time warp thingy from yesterday. Luckily, as you supposed, I can still sip on my jar of thorazine.
Posted by: Stupendous Man | February 16, 2006 at 11:54 AM
Tell ya whut, I'm REALLY glad I'm not clicking on any links here on the "All the news that's too gross to print" blog, but I wish I hadn't READ some of these comments... BLEAUGH! I think I'll go find a blog hosted by someone in the comedy biz, like Dick Cheney maybe.
Posted by: Mad Soapboxer | February 16, 2006 at 01:23 PM
Blue - I saw your link, and it proves my point. The eye/worm gets blogged and the condom reef doesn't. I thought the condom reef story would be good for at least a few *snorks*!
Posted by: Stupendous Man | February 16, 2006 at 09:01 PM