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		Woman lives with snake permanently embedded in her stomach, till it gets hungry (nytimes.com)		106
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Musicology101		2010-05-07 10:51:04 AM

How the hell can a snake survive in a stomach?

Adjective Bird Whiskey		2010-05-07 10:55:29 AM

This story better be bullshiat or else I'm going to turn out the lights and go home. F*CK THAT

slepygryhnd		2010-05-07 10:56:22 AM

1864. Who knows what it really was!

demanton		2010-05-07 10:56:25 AM

Published: July 10, 1864

It was either a snake or an evil troll causing her illness.

Occam's_Doctor		2010-05-07 10:56:48 AM

Old News. July 1864. WTF?

The English Major		2010-05-07 10:57:48 AM

Adjective Bird Whiskey: This story better be bullshiat or else I'm going to turn out the lights and go home. F*CK THAT

That was my reaction, 'til I saw the date.

Quasar		2010-05-07 11:17:56 AM

I've had it with these motherfarking snakes in this motherfarking stomach.

I_C_Weener		2010-05-07 11:22:32 AM

Tapeworm?

Flab		2010-05-07 11:23:14 AM

demanton: Published: July 10, 1864

That explains the weird sentence syntax. At first, I thought it was some Google-Translated Indian or Chinese story.

OlafTheBent		2010-05-07 11:23:37 AM

She's a Goa'uld

/Call Daniel Jackson

Talon		2010-05-07 11:31:47 AM

I_C_Weener: Tapeworm?

I thought they were exclusively in the intestines.

And that doesn't explain the choking sensation.

My guess is cancer/a tumor.

Flab		2010-05-07 11:37:06 AM

How can a snake survive in someone's stomach? I'm swimming in hydrochloric acid... yay!

Diogenes		2010-05-07 11:41:16 AM

I_C_Weener: Tapeworm?

That would be my guess. Behavior sounds right.

nekom		2010-05-07 11:47:20 AM

Did they try bleeding her? I suspect the snake may be a curse for bestilling the humors and congress with demons. A good bloodletting might have helped.

just_ducky		2010-05-07 11:48:46 AM

Old news is old.

/REALLY old.

SearchN		2010-05-07 11:49:39 AM

Flab: How can a snake survive in someone's stomach? I'm swimming in hydrochloric acid... yay!

THIS.

That thing wouldn't last more then a few hours, let alone not dying from lack of air.

rhino33		2010-05-07 11:52:07 AM

that article is like reading a legalese version of the emancipation proclamation. my brain hurts

lunchinlewis		2010-05-07 11:57:04 AM

SNAKES DO NOT WORK THAT WAY

jmaster306		2010-05-07 12:05:57 PM

Flab: How can a snake survive in someone's stomach? I'm swimming in hydrochloric acid... yay!

Maybe it wasn't a snake at all?

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Julieahni		2010-05-07 12:08:45 PM

She better run to the apothecary before she gets the vapors.

The_Sponge		2010-05-07 01:28:49 PM

Occam's_Doctor: Old News. July 1864. WTF?

It's a bullshiat story to distract us from the Civil War.

SpinStopper		2010-05-07 01:42:20 PM

The_Sponge: Occam's_Doctor: Old News. July 1864. WTF?

It's a bullshiat story to distract us from the Civil War.

Really? I wonder how that worked out ;)

Diogenes		2010-05-07 01:50:15 PM

The_Sponge: Occam's_Doctor: Old News. July 1864. WTF?

It's a bullshiat story to distract us from the Civil War.

Ah...the old "wag the snake."

muck4doo		2010-05-07 02:11:12 PM

Indeed

Ashrams		2010-05-07 02:17:04 PM

Snakes in a stomach...
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hoyt clagwell		2010-05-07 02:18:26 PM

Is that just Osler foolin' around again? Vaginismus, INDEED.

Ogre840		2010-05-07 02:18:27 PM

muck4doo: Indeed

Damn you!

/shakes fist

FrancoFile		2010-05-07 02:19:39 PM

/hot like bodily humors.

Space_Poet		2010-05-07 02:20:11 PM

I had no idea how old this story was when I submitted it, thought it was a little oddly worded. Anyway, I thought it would be a great headline/pic competition, per the reason voting is enabled.

Honest Bender		2010-05-07 02:23:27 PM

Flab: demanton: Published: July 10, 1864

That explains the weird sentence syntax. At first, I thought it was some Google-Translated Indian or Chinese story.

For a few minutes I thought the paper finally found a journalist that knew how to write. The syntax and diction probably seem weird because they are correct and not dumbed down. Modern journalists are generally poor writers.

Alabama Hot Pocket		2010-05-07 02:23:45 PM

It mighteth have beeneth a trouser snaketh.

WatchoutJoe		2010-05-07 02:24:28 PM

Honest Bender: Flab: demanton: Published: July 10, 1864

That explains the weird sentence syntax. At first, I thought it was some Google-Translated Indian or Chinese story.

For a few minutes I thought the paper finally found a journalist that knew how to write. The syntax and diction probably seem weird because they are correct and not dumbed down. Modern journalists are generally poor writers.

This. All I could think of was Jane Eyre or Sense and Sensibility.

Space_Poet		2010-05-07 02:25:12 PM

What a stomach snake might look like:

or this:

Al_Ed		2010-05-07 02:32:30 PM

Could've been worse...could've been an eel up the ass.

fredsnake		2010-05-07 02:35:39 PM

yuck. I saw the ell ass video japs are strange.

Merkin Muffley		2010-05-07 02:36:10 PM

I have had it with these monkey fighting snakes, in this monday to friday stomach!

untaken_name		2010-05-07 02:36:33 PM

So the NYT was a tabloid back in 1864? I didn't know that.

Wrath of Heaven		2010-05-07 02:36:39 PM

Monkey MKIII		2010-05-07 02:36:52 PM

A vote for me is a vote for news with a capital NEW.

/was funny, tho

stonicus		2010-05-07 02:37:19 PM

Unimpressed...

AusNord		2010-05-07 02:38:55 PM

OlafTheBent: She's a Goa'uld

/Call Daniel Jackson

Actually she's a Jaffa. The snake would be the Goa'uld :p

7wolf		2010-05-07 02:40:41 PM

I found that more understandable than most articles I read here. Well... if I ignore what it's actually about.

Bf+		2010-05-07 02:41:15 PM

The best part? At the end of the article:
The finest journalism in Chicago? The New York Times, as low as $3.70 a week.

/That's some mighty fine journalism there, Lou.

bump		2010-05-07 02:41:29 PM

Physicians can see no way in which the snake can be removed without certain death to the woman. Mrs. EVERS is about 35 years of age. She is, of course, feeble in health now, but is around the house.

35 was considered 'feeble'???

southaustin		2010-05-07 02:43:05 PM

Honest Bender: For a few minutes I thought the paper finally found a journalist that knew how to write. The syntax and diction probably seem weird because they are correct and not dumbed down. Modern journalists are generally poor writers.

FTA: Her complaint has until within a short time past, baffled the skill of physicians. The complaint commenced about four years since, with a tickling and uneasy sensation about the pit of the stomach.

No, that's not "correct" grammar. Correct usage morphs and changes with time, and any style guide -- from AP to Turabian, Chicago Manual to APA, will tell you that's not correct.

So if you're using a style guide from the era, sure, it might be dandy. It's not now, though.

/your high horse, come down off it

Merkin Muffley		2010-05-07 02:44:35 PM

1864?

Evil Twin Skippy		2010-05-07 02:46:16 PM

Old news is old

Oh_Enough_Already		2010-05-07 02:46:26 PM

Original Subby.

Train Defecator		2010-05-07 02:46:32 PM

When desiring food it manifests it by rising up in the throat.

If you find yourself in 1864, do not get a blowjob from this woman.

nostratic		2010-05-07 02:47:07 PM

A snake in the belly is better than two centipedes surgically affixed to one's mouth and anus.

/Or so Roger Ebert says.

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