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Storm wrote:
> Well, on the gross-out front, a dog I was caring for did have her 
eye 
> ball pop out. Not nearly as revolting as you would imagine. 
> Surprisingly bloodless too.... I was wearing a white t-shirt and it 
> didn't get messey at all. And you know what else ... it didn't  
hang 
> down like I expected it too, just sat neatly in front of the socket.

Ewwwww... that's one of the grossest things I've ever heard! I once 
saw an episode of Guiness World Records where people contested to see 
who could bug out their eyes the furtherest. Two questions: why is 
this a world record and how did these people actually discover that 
they possessed this "talent"?

Apparently we close our eyes automatically when we sneeze so that our 
eyes don't go shooting out of our heads. I wonder how we actually 
evolved this character trait? I once knew a girl whose "friend of a 
friend" didn't close her eyes when she sneezed once and her eyes 
popped out and were hanging down so that she could only look down at 
her feet. Quite a funny image, actually. Anyway, in the end, 
this "friend of a friend" ended up popping her own eyes back into her 
head. She only had to go to hospital when she accidentally put one of 
her eyes in sideways.

I was nine or ten when I first heard this story, and even then I 
wasn't gullible enough to believe it.

Lastly on the eyeballs front, has anyone ever played a party game 
called Napolean (although there are sure to be variants on the name). 
It's where 
you sit a blindfolded person in a chair and hand them things like 
spaghetting and cold meats, telling them it's Napolean's hair and 
tongue or whatever. I once had my finger stuck in an orange and was 
informed it was Napolean's eye. I freaked out!

--> Sam

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