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Sep 16, 2005, 11:11 AM
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/ne...00/4209004.stm


"A gross creature which gobbles up a fish's tongue and then replaces it with its own body has been found in Britain for the first time.

The bug - which has the scientific name cymothoa exigua - was discovered inside the mouth of a red snapper bought from a London fishmonger.

The 3.5cm creature had grabbed onto the fish's tongue and slowly ate away at it until only a stub was left.

It then latched onto the stub and became the fish's "replacement tongue"."
     
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Sep 16, 2005, 11:51 AM
 
nasty...that's almost as creepy as that fish that walks on land...blackhead...snakehead...whatever

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Sep 16, 2005, 12:19 PM
 
Totally gross.

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Sep 16, 2005, 12:21 PM
 
That is something else, nature never ceases to amaze me.
     
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Sep 16, 2005, 12:24 PM
 
As bizzare as a tiny catfish in the amazon (I think) that can climb up your stream of piss and get into your wang!
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Sep 16, 2005, 12:32 PM
 
Originally Posted by FulcrumPilot
As bizzare as a tiny catfish in the amazon (I think) that can climb up your stream of piss and get into your wang!

no ****?

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Sep 16, 2005, 12:36 PM
 
Originally Posted by FulcrumPilot
As bizzare as a tiny catfish in the amazon (I think) that can climb up your stream of piss and get into your wang!
Sorta. If you are in the water at waist level and pee is will follow the stream of pee, climb up your wiener and extend these two barbs to lock itself in there. Usually surgery is needed to get it out.

If you are standing next to the river and pee it cannot swim up a stream

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Sep 16, 2005, 12:45 PM
 
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Sep 16, 2005, 12:46 PM
 
Originally Posted by FulcrumPilot
As bizzare as a tiny catfish in the amazon (I think) that can climb up your stream of piss and get into your wang!

That's gross.

I've got a another gross story. My girlfriend is in med school right now and she told me this story. I might have some of the facts wrongs, as we were at a bar when she told me this:

There is a very rare microscopic parasite that infects the lungs of humans. However, the way it enters into a human is by eating raw or undercooked fresh-water crustaceans. When you sleep, the parasite travels up your esophagus, then down your trachea into your lungs.
     
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Sep 16, 2005, 01:08 PM
 
Cue the botfly maggots under the eye picture!
     
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Sep 16, 2005, 01:58 PM
 
Originally Posted by demograph68
Cue the botfly maggots under the eye picture!
No, no, NO.

Please!
     
   
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