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How many vestigial organs do you have???
Posted: 12 March 2007 12:43 PM   [ Ignore ]
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Posted: 12 March 2007 01:33 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Let’s see, since I’ve gotten a midi keyboard, I NEVER use that Wurlitzer anymore.

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Posted: 12 March 2007 01:45 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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I like to think my coccyx isn’t useless.

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Posted: 12 March 2007 02:55 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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Hehheh, I can wiggle my ears, thats not useless is it?

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Posted: 12 March 2007 02:55 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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I have this little nipple a few inches under the right regular one.  It looks like it would fit Barbie.

The dermatologist says there’s an actual miniature breast under there.

I guess what I lack in size, I make up for in quantittie.

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Posted: 12 March 2007 03:16 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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Bebelicious - 12 March 2007 06:55 PM

I guess what I lack in size, I make up for in quantittie.

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Posted: 12 March 2007 03:20 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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Bebelicious - 12 March 2007 06:55 PM

I have this little nipple a few inches under the right regular one.  It looks like it would fit Barbie.

The dermatologist says there’s an actual miniature breast under there.

I guess what I lack in size, I make up for in quantittie.

LOL

I knew of a woman who had the same except in her armpit. She actually lactated from it when she had her baby. It freaked her right out, because before then, she thought it was a mole.

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Posted: 12 March 2007 03:27 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]
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Hey Mad, that happened to my sister too and I’d never heard of it before!  I’m GLAD you posted that little ditty!!!

My Mom had to have what they thought was a tumor removed (she was in Germany at the time).  It was located in and around her large and small intestines.  The surgeons had a time doing this because it appeared to be an actual-trying-to work organ similar in some ways to the intestines, but then very different in appearance and in whatever it was trying to do. 

They preserved it for study but I have no idea what the outcome of that was.

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What a king must suffer?  For he knows, deep down in his heart, that he is a poor, cheap, wormy thing like the rest of us, a sarcasm, the Creator’s prime miscarriage in inventions, the moral inferior of all the animals…the superior of them all in one gift only, and that one not up to his estimation of it—-intellect.
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Posted: 12 March 2007 04:03 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]
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I agree that eyelashes aren’t useless. Don’t they keep stuff out of your eyes? Either way, there’s always batting your eyelashes to get what you want, that’s pretty useful. Plus, you wish on them!

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Posted: 13 March 2007 05:47 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]
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Since when have tonsils or eyebrows been useless either? They both perform very important functions. If you didn’t have eyebrows every time you sweat you would be blinded by salty fluid running into your eyes from your fore-head, and tonsils help stop infections going down into your trachea and lungs. The Pineal gland it seems also has a function:

“The pineal gland was originally believed to be a “vestigial remnant” of a larger organ (much as the appendix was thought to be a vestigial digestive organ). It was only after the 1960s that scientists discovered that the pineal gland is responsible for the production of melatonin, which is regulated in a circadian rhythm. Melatonin is a derivative of the amino acid tryptophan, which also has other functions in the Central Nervous System. The production of melatonin by the pineal gland is stimulated by darkness and inhibited by light. The retina detects the light, and directly signals and entrains the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). Fibers project from the SCN to the paraventricular nuclei (PVN), which relay the circadian signals to the spinal cord and out via the sympathetic system to superior cervical ganglia (SCG), and from there into the pineal gland.”

So there. *rasp*

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Posted: 13 March 2007 01:22 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]
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You tell ‘em Mort! smile

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Posted: 13 March 2007 04:43 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]
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Dracul - 12 March 2007 08:03 PM

Either way, there’s always batting your eyelashes to get what you want, that’s pretty useful.

Egad, girls learn their tricky and nefarious wiles at an early age!!!

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