Polite Dissent

7 Responses to “ Learn Something New Every Day! ”

1. Lyle
   April 14th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
   

   Okay, I just have to ask about Tuesday… was this lesson based on a single, average three-year-old or on the average experience with a number of three-year-olds with marbles up their nose?

2. Lea
   April 14th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
   

   Ahhhhh! Amateur tongue-piercing, AHHHHHH!
   Tell me more.

   My son once put a dime up his nose, which got into his nasal cavity. How I wish I had a copy of the x-ray. That perfect tiny portrait of FDR inside a 6-year-old’s skull was truly suitable for framing.
   The dime come out within a day, rather slimy and green, and his lesson was learned.

3. tiassa
   April 14th, 2006 at 10:39 pm
   

   …I have to ask, which part of the accident is waiting to happen?

4. Chance
   April 16th, 2006 at 12:07 am
   

   tiassa and i were on the same wavelength there… i mean, i think you could have left off the “eaiting to happen.”

5. Tim O'Neil
   April 17th, 2006 at 8:51 am
   

   A kid at my job pierced his tongue with a rusty screw. True, it was less an attempt at a homemade tongue piercing than pathological self-mutilation, but still.

6. the Walrus
   April 17th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
   

   Five marbles in their nose? We are talking about human beings, right?
   And there is still another think I can’t understand about that TUESDAY lesson. If they are 5 marbles, I assume they are put in both nostrils. But that means 3 marbles inside one nostril and 2 marbles inside the other one. So, if three marbles fit in one nostril, why the other nostril can’t keep another three marbles? Is it about the “average” thing?
   If one three years-old can fit four marbles, and another can fit six marbles, that would make an average of 5 marbles per child. But then… well, I was thinking about my own nose and I don’t believe it could fit more than two marbles when I was three. That means that, somewhere on planet Earth, a three yars-old could put eight marbles in his/her nose so the average number of marbles-inside-a-nose be 5. That’s amazing!
   (As you can see, this marbles topic really freaked me out)

7. LeahA
   April 18th, 2006 at 12:51 am
   

   Also, pieces of a Nerf Ball stuck up an 18 month old’s nose require a doctor to remove them. On a Sunday afternoon, when you realize there’s a really foul odor coming from said 18 month old’s nose, means one must take a trip to the emergency room.

   How he got them stuffed that far up his nose escapes me to this day.

   Thank the gods he’s a college sophomore now and no longer owns a Nerf Ball. :)

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