Comments on: Somebody here order a nightmare?

By: Muslihoon

Muslihoon — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:40:13 +0000

That’s a very genteel way of referring to such a device, Your Highness.

I lament the fact we have become so sterile and acceptable. Curiosity is a good thing. Within limits, of course.

By: porknbean

porknbean — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:26:58 +0000

Ohhh…I thought those were your aunt’s kids and the nurses found them and were showing them off. Odd birds indeed.

By: S. Weasel

S. Weasel — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:26:22 +0000

There! Back at my desk. I had three pages of spam. And a large iced coffee.

I’m prob’ly going to vibrate like a marital aid for the rest of the afternoon.

By: Steamboat McGoo

Steamboat McGoo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:20:27 +0000

You smell like coffee beans and laptop exhaust. Have you been playing with those damned Nerd kids down the block again!?

Fetus preserves. Ew.

By: S. Weasel

S. Weasel — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:39:44 +0000

Oh, they belonged to the nurses! If they’d belonged to Aunt Mary, I’m not sure I’d've shared.

A cabinet of curiosities, as McGoo references, was generally owned by a private collector — usually a wealthy eccentric gentleman. Many modern museums were built around the kernel of such a private collection.

But, yes, the nurses were distinctly creepy-weird. Probably got them from a hospital.

I’m posting from the local coffee house! Do I look different?

By: porknbean

porknbean — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:37:01 +0000

There is a difference between a doctor or institution doing it for teaching type purposes and a private citizen doing it for God knows what reason. People collect a lot of weird crap, but dead babies is …well….over the line?

Were these jarred babies your great aunt’s or the nurses? If they were the former, why would the latter get fired?

By: Steamboat McGoo

Steamboat McGoo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:22:22 +0000

Cabinets of Curiosities!

By: S. Weasel

S. Weasel — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:00:32 +0000

The word you’re struggling for is “Faulknerian” I think.

The nurses got fired, pronto. What happened to the things in jars, I don’t know.

Of course, people were a LOT less squeamish about those sorts of things once. Doctors routinely kept interesting specimens in jars…things they’d cut off of people, spontaneous abortions (especially deformities), evidence from murder trials. Museums used to feature a lot more of that sort of thing, as well.

I believe they have now shuttered the Natural Mummy room at the Smithsonian, but it was once one of my favorite exhibits.

By: porknbean

porknbean — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:05:49 +0000

The sisters called one of my relatives aside one day to show her something special

*rubs eyes* That is so…I don’t know what that is. I hope after she passed, someone gave them a proper burial.

By: Muslihoon

Muslihoon — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:52:39 +0000

Hehehehehe. This has a nice spin. Different site. Maybe run by the same people.