Question for Boston people...

[The Dope]

That's what Fred's story was too, so I really don't know. It's pretty hard to believe, but it's even harder to imagine going through life like that.

 

[xfer]

i think it's possible. a single lung and the heart are what're most important, plus some vitals which can be packed in (probably the entire ribcage is actually there).

a lot of digestive and waste disposal stuff, which isn't necessary at all times, can probably be simulated when he goes home and hooks himself up to machines, right?

 

[minxnim]

alex, yr right. but i wonder where the lung would go. i mean, they're big! and it would need to expand AND have a sealed chamber to exist in. crazy.

 

[xfer]

remember that with two-thirds of his body mass missing, and no physical activity to speak of (walking, standing, etc.), he probably needs a lot less oxygen. maybe even half a lung would do?

 

[minxnim]

that's true. but i still wonder. without a diaphragm... and having his cavities not the same size.. i wonder if they would even function at a level that wouldnt be toxic?

 

[xfer]

oh hmm i forgot about the need for a diaphragm.

another good question: if you DID exist only from the shoulders up, wouldn't you sit on a bagful of clothes or something, just to draw fewer stares?

 

[minxnim]

well, maybe not a pag full of clothes, per se... but SOMETHING. like a prosthetic abdomen?

 

[xfer]

well yeah, that's what i mean, but even a bagful of clothes would be better if you couldn't afford a fancy-dancy prosthetic chest.

 

[minxnim]

this whole bag of clothes thing is funny because i picture you having a friend scoop up your clothes off the floor into a stop and shop bag for you... if you ever wake up as only two arms and a head.

 

[xfer]

man i would post about that shit RIGHT AWAY.

 

[xfer]

"

I woke up this morning and my body was gone"

 

[minxnim]

i'd feel so totally bad for you.

 

[xfer]

better bodiless than a roach, in my opinion.

 

[IanDork107]

whoa...that's quite odd.

 

[minxnim]

alex. you're right. but a cockroach can live 8 days without a head!

 

[minxnim]

my roommate gets annoyed because i wont kill cockroaches. i just ask them to leave. they make me think of archie and mehitabel

 

[IanDork107]

I don't like killing roaches either. There was one in my moms house the other day when my girlfriend (in town at that point) and I were over and everyone freaked out but I just caught it and let it out the backyard (under the fence to the 90 year old neighbors yard cause I know he won't be able to kill it).

 

[The Dope]

Wow, this is probably the most successful thread I've ever started. Glad everyone is so interested in the disembodied head in a wheelchair.

Anywho, I am off to Georgia for the weekend. Catch you guys later and be sure to keep an eye out for the head/shoulder/arm thing when you go outside.

 

[xfer]

i hate hate hate roaches but i don't like to kill them because i don't want to contaminate the floor/my foot with their eggy guts. so i just scare them away.

i did used to like archy and mehitabel, though, but i never connected archy with real roaches in my head.

 

[minxnim]

omg my mom is going to GA this weekend i hope her and the dope aren't HOOKING UP