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[trappedinabay]

Last night on the subway I sat across from a young mixed race couple (she some flavor of Hispanic, he African-American, both of them jaw-droppingly attractive with long eyelashes and sleepy smiles) and eavesdropped on their conversation about a particularly difficult math class where the teacher was picking on the girl. The girl said something

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[hopita]

OK, so now you have to tell us: HOW?!?!

And as for how something this big (hand gesture) can come out of something that big (hand gesture) ... um, have babies much?

[trappedinabay]

They fished the brains out with a wire hook through the nostrils (obviously scrambling them into little pieces) and then discarded whatever they pulled out. They didn't think the brain was important at all. I believe the heart was the most important organ.

And a cervix/vaginal canal is a little more flexible than a nostril. In most cases.

[hopita]

And a cervix/vaginal canal is a little more flexible than a nostril. In most cases.

Well, yea. I just meant that the big-thing-coming-out-of-the-little-opening idea is not exactly a concept without precedent. :)

[michaelallroy]

i remember learning about this method of egyptian brain removal while studying mummification practices in my 4th grade gifted program. it was officially the coolest shit anyone in that school was learning, and i was absolutely fascinated and i told everyone i knew about it, several times.

Taken literally

[skreidle]

"Take only pictures", and no surreptitious cellcam photos of this beautiful couple? :)

[flamingjune07]

That's really cute, somehow. Also, I know about these things because I am enough of a nerd to have done A School Project on Egyptian mythology and burial practices sometime when I was in elementary school. I also threw in an appendix about cats. Um, yes.