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OK, EWWWWW, and not what I want to be reading at lunch.
ick.
Posted by: sthnbelle | April 13, 2006 at 01:10 PM
The cannibal Freud worm. Interesting.
Posted by: CoastRaven | April 13, 2006 at 01:11 PM
"There's nothing [in the animal kingdom] that peels off the skin and eats big chunks of it like these things are doing,"
I knew a guy in Elementary school who did that - but it was his own, not his mothers, so I guess that doesnt count.
Posted by: CoastRaven | April 13, 2006 at 01:14 PM
*throws up a little in my mouth*
So much for lunch.
Posted by: wolfie | April 13, 2006 at 01:18 PM
No one tell T RWC that those baby worms look like the noodles in pad thai, k?
Posted by: DDi | April 13, 2006 at 01:19 PM
Okay, this is my new euphemism for when my kids are driving me crazy.
"Dang kids! They're devouring my flesh."
The female's skin doubles in thickness during this period, the researchers found.
Well, this is a parenting TRUTH, people.
Posted by: KDF | April 13, 2006 at 01:22 PM
Oh, no, not leftovers again!
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | April 13, 2006 at 01:30 PM
Yeah, KDF, ya GOTS to be thick-skinned to be a parent!
Posted by: Mr. Completely | April 13, 2006 at 01:31 PM
Five foot long flesh eating worms? *shudder*
Posted by: fivver | April 13, 2006 at 01:31 PM
(think Simon&Garfunkel)
Caecilians, you're munching on Mom
You're adding new levels to nausea
Oh, Caecilians ,does she start to squirm
as her epidermis, becomes lunch?
If we were to take our cue
From Caecilians what then would we do?
On Mother's Day to show how we respect 'er
We'd give her a card, then go Hannibal Lecter
Posted by: insomniac | April 13, 2006 at 01:33 PM
Only difference is that in humans, this kind of parasitism happens mostly during the teenage years and not immediately after birth. That way we're less able to give them up for adoption. Mother Nature thinks of everything.
Posted by: KOW | April 13, 2006 at 01:36 PM
maternal love is just so heartwarming.
Wait, that's heartburn.
Posted by: pepe I-just-wanna-learn-things | April 13, 2006 at 01:37 PM
"I hate mommy's guts!"
"Shut up and eat what's put in front of you."
Posted by: fivver | April 13, 2006 at 01:39 PM
My kids bleed me dry but they rarely eat my flesh. There are limits, you know.
Posted by: Somewhere North | April 13, 2006 at 01:44 PM
And quite frankly, I have to deal with the parasitical suckers for 20 years while Mommy Worm feeds a little skin and a couple weeks later they're gone. I'd say Mommy Worm is the smarter of the species.
Posted by: Somewhere North | April 13, 2006 at 01:45 PM
*snork* at fivver, and I do believe that's my very first "first"!
Wasn't there something about a secret handshake?
Posted by: sthnbelle | April 13, 2006 at 01:45 PM
*SNORQUE* at Meanie the Blue.
Posted by: reneviht | April 13, 2006 at 02:11 PM
Two sentences and I'm through reading this one.
Posted by: Sondra | April 13, 2006 at 02:12 PM
way to go Stupe!
Posted by: southerngirl | April 13, 2006 at 02:58 PM
THANK YOU for the icky picture warning!!
Posted by: Sarah J | April 13, 2006 at 03:10 PM
After attempts at breast feeding, there is a bit of this in some human children....
Posted by: Kathy P. | April 13, 2006 at 03:20 PM
And that whole 'boiling the n*ppl*s' thing has GOT to hurt.
Posted by: fivver | April 13, 2006 at 04:35 PM
sthnbelle - yes, there's a secret FIRST handshake. Wait for the memo re location of FIRST club meeting. All will be clear then.
Posted by: Eleanor | April 13, 2006 at 04:35 PM
So, one worn said to another, "I can't stand my mother." The other worn said, "Why don't you try eating something else instead?"
Posted by: Dan | April 13, 2006 at 05:24 PM
"Son, you know I would give you the skin off my back."
"Thanks Ma, it will be a nice appetizer."
Posted by: Brad | April 14, 2006 at 12:02 AM
Thanks, El! I'll be right here waiting........
;)
Posted by: sthnbelle | April 14, 2006 at 09:43 AM
Sounds like my girlfriend's 21 year old daughter's parasitic "adult child".
Posted by: catman | April 14, 2006 at 01:48 PM
The family that eats together stays together.
Posted by: Addicted to 24 | April 14, 2006 at 05:41 PM