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Subject: Grossology From: GUEST,Desdemona Date: 26 Dec 01 - 08:18 PM I'm starting this thread since, after clicking o the link so kindly provided by Amos on the "folk science" thread, I thought this topic worthy of closer examination. If you haven't had the pleasure, PLEASE: http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns232216 This woman employs a method of teaching science called "grossology" to keep interested, and I can see how it works; when my son was studying Egypt a couple years ago, he really started getting fired up about the topic when he learnt all the nauseating details of the embalming processes used for mummies: the liquefication of the deceased's brain matter with a special little whisk-like tool was especially fascinating to him, particularly when he saw how this info made his grandmother blanch when he shared it with her over dinner in a posh restaurant! I predict a great future foir Grossology as an academic discipline, albeit one adopted almost exclusively by males! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: Sorcha Date: 26 Dec 01 - 08:24 PM No, our Darling Daughter loves it too. I have to admit, I love my new potato ricer. The holes are about 1/4". Large, for a ricer, and the bashed potatoes ooze up looking like worms............I grossed Bubba (22) out with that one! I loved it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: GUEST,Desdemona Date: 26 Dec 01 - 08:31 PM I stand corrected; as the bearer of only male children, and the godmother of 2 Uber Girly-Girls, I'm uneducated in the ways of budding female grossologists! (Play doh squeezed through a grlic press creates a similar effect!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: Amos Date: 26 Dec 01 - 08:34 PM Hey, Des, whazzup? You have so much to say about pee, poop, farts and BO that one thread isn't big enough? LOL!! The really great thing about Grossology is instead of being guilty of a sin against the Infinite, when you fart in your pew, you can blame it all on your bacteria -- a little piece of ecological balance the medievalists never thought of -- and they can all burn in eternity instead of you!! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: Genie Date: 26 Dec 01 - 08:38 PM I think OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) recently had a Grossology exhibit here in Portland. One of the posters ( on the side of a Tri-Met bus) showed a cartoon of a king sitting on the 'throne,' with the caption: "Know Thy Poop." Genie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: GUEST,MAG at work Date: 26 Dec 01 - 09:56 PM I'm (still) a young people's librarian and can attest to the drawing power of grossology. The most popular book in the juvenile cookery section is *It's Disgusting -- and we Ate It!* (no lie.)
Muscially I'm sure you all remember Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, Other popular ... oh, never mind. Go to your local library and your very own librarian will fill you in. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: Liz the Squeak Date: 26 Dec 01 - 10:06 PM Yep, the ickier the better.... Why do you think Roald Dahl did so well with his 'Revolting Rhymes' and the disgusting recipe book. The biggest laugh in the Harry Potter film is when they remove Harry's wand from the troll's nose with the line "Eeuugh, troll bogies"..... Here's a bit of 'grossology' to throw into the dinner conversation. In Rekyavik they have a museum totally dedicated to the penis. It contains the stuffed, mummified and presevered penis of almost every type of creature. The Wright Whale has one over 6' long, that's as long as the average bed...... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: GUEST,Desdemona Date: 26 Dec 01 - 10:18 PM I've never been to Iceland, and now I have the perfect reason.....! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: kj... Date: 26 Dec 01 - 10:35 PM ....well it could be a fatal encounter.....but interesting....worth considering.....hmmmmm.... :)kj ...anybody need the recipe for dump cake....only mildly gross but edible.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: GUEST,Grammar Police Date: 27 Dec 01 - 02:38 AM Thats "Right" whale. Former children's librarian Proud papa of a female grossaholic 10.5 yr-old |
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: Mark Cohen Date: 27 Dec 01 - 04:28 AM Were you thinking of any bed in particular, Liz? By the way, it's the right (not Wright) whale, which, as I learned it, was so named by whalers because all its components (oil, blubber, etc.) were of the kind and quality most in demand in the marketplace, making it the "right" whale to hunt. I don't know if the same could be said for its genitalia, though. I don't know why, but that reminds me of the story about the three samurai warriors who were vying for the hand of the Emperor's daughter. The Emperor opened a little box, releasing a fly into the room. Samurai #1 neatly dispatched the poor insect with his sword. Samurai #2 did the same to the next fly, but he did it blindfolded. Samurai #3 slashed smartly with his sword at the third fly...which continued to buzz about the room. "He still flies," said the Emperor, disapprovingly. "Yes, Sire," said the warrior. "But he will never reproduce." Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: leprechaun Date: 27 Dec 01 - 04:29 AM I guess that would make you squeak. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: GUEST Date: 27 Dec 01 - 04:16 PM Science Museum of Minnesota recently had the Grossology exhibit too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: fat B****rd Date: 27 Dec 01 - 04:30 PM Wahoo !! Anyone read their kids "Fungus the Bogeyman" ?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: GUEST,MAG at work, again Date: 27 Dec 01 - 04:49 PM probably already in the DB, but more kids' folklore, for any lingering doubters of short memory:
Great big gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts |
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: GUEST Date: 27 Dec 01 - 07:32 PM Another childhood classic is The Slugs, or The Slug Family, something like that. We love 'em. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: RichM Date: 28 Dec 01 - 10:22 AM Here's another tale for all you grossologists;
From this morning's newspaper-- I think I'll wait for the vegetarian version... Rich
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: Don Firth Date: 28 Dec 01 - 12:21 PM Lutefisk. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: Clinton Hammond Date: 28 Dec 01 - 12:44 PM Heh! A chummer and I once crashed a university lecture on Forensic Entomology cause we had nothing else better to do for a few hours... Much to the chagrin of most of the folks around me, I brought a plastic bowl of leftover pasta and tomato sauce to munch on while watching time last footage of various bugs breaking down a cadaver... We giggled through the whole thing! I'm glad I wasn't sitting near us, trying to take notes to pass a test on the subject or anything... ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: kendall Date: 28 Dec 01 - 01:39 PM The "right whale" was also named so because it did not sink when killed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: GUEST,Desdemona Date: 28 Dec 01 - 03:59 PM And with his special qualities, I suppose he'd qualify as "MR. Right Whale"! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Grossology From: SharonA Date: 28 Dec 01 - 04:19 PM I've never been to Iceland, either, Desdemona, and now I too have the perfect reason NOT TO EVER BE IN ICELAND!!!! Lutefisk AND a penis museum.... eeuugghh. BTW, Liz the Squeak, they changed that line in the Americanized version ("Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone") to read "troll boogers" ....I have to wonder what ELSE the Americanizers of those books fiddled with! *grumble grumble grumble* |