just stick to the script

[cris]

oh ... and on the topic of brain damage ... this happened a week ago:

In recognition of National Poetry Month, the TotRodder and I were reading some excerpts from that chestnut of childish limericks, Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends. There's a poem in there involving a guy who gets a railroad spike driven through his head, and there's

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[cris]

I got the intent the first time.

and I am waiting for that inevitable conversational thread that leads to: "Cris, what's trepanation?"

"it's what happens when you stop growing but your brain keeps learning."

[spao]

this is new stuff --- do people get pierced thru the skull?

[cris]

bone in general is a no-no. All head piercings target cartilege points or fatty tissue. though, you'll also get some extreme body mods that involve horn implants underneath the skin, and folks getting pierced through the bridge of their nose. still, the iconic image of the guy with an arrow sticking out of either end of their skull has yet to be done.

[silentq]

I just opened the bag of books I get to read next week to a class of first graders: Baby Bat's Lullaby is really pretty, but there's not a lot of words. Little Quack's Hide and Seek has a few more words, but not a ton of them. On the upside, that means I can race through it and try to be out of there in 10 mins. :) On the downside, the class will try to pile more books on my lap until I've read for half an hour...

[brigid]

tot rodder needs to know about phineas gage, lobotomies and trepanation