Death By Ballon Blowing
Richard Brown
latex balloons till the burst minus the porn found at other sites.
I got the following via my comments guest book page.
Did you know by the way that you can cause severe lung damage by
blowing up balloons by mouth?? You can pop the air sacs around your
lungs and people have died due to this when just blowing up 10
balloons for their child's birthday party. I think that this
shouldn't be encouraged for others, how would you feel if this
happened to someone that was unaware of it and they were encouraged by
your site? A lot of people amuse themselves in many ways, but this
way is very dangerous.
The only information I could find was a reference to a British medical
journal report about a person who ended up emergency room over blowing
up 20 nine inch balloons. I could not find any references to the
report mention above.
I feel this is a one of a kind case and believe other circumstances
were at fault. I have been blowing up giant latex balloons (3 foot
round and larger) until they burst for about 16 years. I only use my
lung power alone to burst them. I do feel some tiredness after
bursting 4 or more giant balloon a day or when I do a 5 or 6 foot
round balloon. Other than that, I don't have any other health problem.
I wonder have anybody heard of such reports.
Bill Pringle
Richard Brown wrote in message <3637fe54...@news.teleport.com>...
>I run a little site which explains my little hoppy of blowing up giant
>latex balloons till the burst minus the porn found at other sites.
>
>I got the following via my comments guest book page.
>
>Did you know by the way that you can cause severe lung damage by
>blowing up balloons by mouth?? You can pop the air sacs around your
>lungs and people have died due to this when just blowing up 10
>balloons for their child's birthday party. I think that this
I can't comment on the lung damage by popping air sacs, but I recommend you
find another hobby anyway. You are exposing yourself to latex antigens via
your lungs and mucus membranes. You are running the risk of developing a
latex allergy. This is something that you DON'T want. People close to me
have the latex allergy, so I know how bad it can be.
Bill "bursting your bubble" Pringle
W.R. Giacona
>
> Richard Brown wrote in message <3637fe54...@news.teleport.com>...
> >I run a little site which explains my little hoppy of blowing up giant
> >latex balloons till the burst minus the porn found at other sites.
> >
> >I got the following via my comments guest book page.
> >
> >Did you know by the way that you can cause severe lung damage by
> >blowing up balloons by mouth?? You can pop the air sacs around your
> >lungs and people have died due to this when just blowing up 10
> >balloons for their child's birthday party. I think that this
>
> I can't comment on the lung damage by popping air sacs, but I recommend you
> find another hobby anyway.
<SNIP STUFF ABOUT latex antigens>
He needs to get another hobby because blowing up balloons till the pop
is the stupidist hobby I have ever heard of. With the exception of web
surfing via WebTV.
W.R."get a life" Giacona
Lou Serico
> Richard Brown wrote in message <3637fe54...@news.teleport.com>...
> >I got the following via my comments guest book page.
> >
> >Did you know by the way that you can cause severe lung damage by
> >blowing up balloons by mouth??
Couldn't find anything about this on Medline. Tried various combinations
of balloon, inflate, lung, alveoli, and air sac. Making it harder is the
fact that most medical references to balloons are not of the fun birthday
party variety. So nothing yet, but I'm Working On It.
> I can't comment on the lung damage by popping air sacs, but I recommend you
> find another hobby anyway. You are exposing yourself to latex antigens via
> your lungs and mucus membranes. You are running the risk of developing a
> latex allergy. This is something that you DON'T want. People close to me
> have the latex allergy, so I know how bad it can be.
I hit paydirt on this topic, at least:
Int J Occup Med Environ Health 1997;10(3):297-301
Occupational allergy to latex--life threatening reactions in health care
workers. Report of three cases.
"... The authors present clinical cases of 2 nurses and 1 laboratory
worker, who developed severe allergic reactions to latex: ... case 3
-- while blowing up balloon at home."
So I guess sucking the helium from balloons *can* be bad for you.
Although it's not because of the helium. [1]
Fun Fact based on a post found from my Dejanews Search: Inhaling Xenon
*lowers* your voice. A Chem teacher apparently did this and had to be held
upside-down in order to "purge" the Xe from his lungs. Nice trick, but I
can't imagine that Xenon balloons are any fun otherwise.
Lou "there are more entertaining ways to be exposed to latex antigens"
Serico
[1] Or so my high school Chemistry teacher assured me. He was kind of
sketchy, though. [2]
[2] Some would argue that this is a requirement.
Nathan Tenny
Lou Serico <seri...@doc.mssm.edu> wrote:
>Fun Fact based on a post found from my Dejanews Search: Inhaling Xenon
>*lowers* your voice. A Chem teacher apparently did this and had to be held
>upside-down in order to "purge" the Xe from his lungs. Nice trick, but I
>can't imagine that Xenon balloons are any fun otherwise.
They're good for producing cognitive dissonance. They look like ordinary
balloons, but plummet like rocks when released. Amaze your fiends!
OK, I'm stretching for that. But it did get some giggles out of my high-
school chemistry class, which ordinarily wouldn't giggle if you put
four million volts through it.
NT
--
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Andy Keck
rich...@my-dejanews.com (Richard Brown) wrote:
> I run a little site which explains my little hoppy of blowing up giant
> latex balloons till the burst minus the porn found at other sites.
>
> I got the following via my comments guest book page.
>
> Did you know by the way that you can cause severe lung damage by
> blowing up balloons by mouth?? You can pop the air sacs around your
> lungs and people have died due to this when just blowing up 10
> balloons for their child's birthday party. I think that this
> shouldn't be encouraged for others, how would you feel if this
> happened to someone that was unaware of it and they were encouraged by
> your site? A lot of people amuse themselves in many ways, but this
> way is very dangerous.
>
> The only information I could find was a reference to a British medical
> journal report about a person who ended up emergency room over blowing
> up 20 nine inch balloons. I could not find any references to the
> report mention above.
> I feel this is a one of a kind case and believe other circumstances
> were at fault. I have been blowing up giant latex balloons (3 foot
> round and larger) until they burst for about 16 years. I only use my
> lung power alone to burst them. I do feel some tiredness after
> bursting 4 or more giant balloon a day or when I do a 5 or 6 foot
> round balloon. Other than that, I don't have any other health problem.
> I wonder have anybody heard of such reports.
I knew that I rememebered seeing something like this while waiting to
check out at the grocery store. Take a look at
http://www.scientificamerican.com/0397issue/0397scicit5.html
Here's an interesting paragraph from the above article...
] "A 24-year-old previously healthy, nonsmoker presented with a 48-hour
] history of a sensation of crackling under the skin," wrote attending
] physician Stuart Elborn, then at the University Hospital of Wales, in a
] recent issue of the British Medical Journal. His examination turned up
] pockets of air trapped under the skin on the man's shoulders, chest, neck,
] abdomen, back, arms, legs and, providing a built-in whoopie-cushion
] effect, derriere.
It seems that this guy had recently inflated many balloons in preparation
for a party. He manage to rupture some of his alveoli, allowing him to
pump air under his skin. Apparently, there was no permanent damage, as the
guy recovered within a couple of weeks.
--
andy
RAMBLER III
>
> I run a little site which explains my little hoppy of blowing up giant
> latex balloons till the burst minus the porn found at other sites.
>
> I got the following via my comments guest book page.
>
> Did you know by the way that you can cause severe lung damage by
> blowing up balloons by mouth?? You can pop the air sacs around your
> lungs and people have died due to this when just blowing up 10
> balloons for their child's birthday party. I think that this
> shouldn't be encouraged for others, how would you feel if this
> happened to someone that was unaware of it and they were encouraged by
> your site? A lot of people amuse themselves in many ways, but this
> way is very dangerous.
[snip]
What is/was the death rate for glassblowers? They huffed and puffed for
8-10 hoous a day, so this must be why such a craft is/was a "dying"
profession.
--
RAMBLER III
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own
ignorance."
Thomas Sowell
Susan Mudgett aka little gator
: Couldn't find anything about this on Medline. Tried various combinations
: of balloon, inflate, lung, alveoli, and air sac. Making it harder is the
: fact that most medical references to balloons are not of the fun birthday
: party variety. So nothing yet, but I'm Working On It.
I have a medical reference! When my husband cracked a rib his doctor
told him to blow up a balloon a few times a day. This was to exercise
his lungs so he wouldn't get pneumonia. People with cracked ribs tends
not to breathe deeply enough, because shallow breathing is less
painful.
eos...@my-dejanews.com
"W.R. Giacona" <w...@arkansas.net> wrote:
> Bill Pringle wrote:
> >
> > Richard Brown wrote in message <3637fe54...@news.teleport.com>...
> > >latex balloons till the burst minus the porn found at other sites.
> >
> > I can't comment on the lung damage by popping air sacs, but I recommend you
> > find another hobby anyway.
>
>
> He needs to get another hobby because blowing up balloons till the pop
> is the stupidist hobby I have ever heard of. With the exception of web
> surfing via WebTV.
>
> W.R."get a life" Giacona
yeah, obviously the reason for blowing up giant size balloons is to attach
them to your lawn chair, not just let the things burst!
Emma "back to your regular AFU service" Osman
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Jim Everman
>
> [snip]
>
> What is/was the death rate for glassblowers? They huffed and puffed for
> 8-10 hoous a day, so this must be why such a craft is/was a "dying"
> profession.
There's glassblowers and there's other glassblowers. I worked as a
glassblower (tubing bender) making neon signs for a while. What gets
'em there are the various coatings inside the tube. Rumor had it that
it's best to retire before 35.
--
Jim Everman mailto:eve...@Anet-STL.com
http://www.Anet-STL.com/~everman/
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by
stupidity.
no.spam...@bigfoot.com
Jim Everman wrote:
>
> RAMBLER III wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > What is/was the death rate for glassblowers? They huffed and puffed for
> > 8-10 hoous a day, so this must be why such a craft is/was a "dying"
> > profession.
>
> There's glassblowers and there's other glassblowers. I worked as a
> glassblower (tubing bender) making neon signs for a while. What gets
> 'em there are the various coatings inside the tube. Rumor had it that
> it's best to retire before 35.
You definitely have a point there! A good friend's Dad worked as a
glassblower for a major petrochemical company and made tubing at their
neoprene plant. He died of lung cancer, as most of his cow orkers
did.
Be glad you didn't stay at it long!
James Kibo Parry
>
> I run a little site which explains my little hoppy
The poor frog!
> of blowing up giant latex balloons till the burst minus the porn
> found at other sites.
Waah! I have the opposite problem. I keep blowing up balloons and popping
them but no porn ever comes out. Can you help?
> I got the following via my comments guest book page.
>
> Did you know by the way that you can cause severe lung damage by
> blowing up balloons by mouth??
I hate to think what other orifice they're suggesting.
> You can pop the air sacs around your lungs
Not the ones in your lungs, just the ones near them. In your kidneys.
> and people have died due to this when just blowing up 10
> balloons for their child's birthday party. I think that this
> shouldn't be encouraged for others,
As the current President of the Western Hemisphere,
I shall rectify this situation:
From now on, kids are not allowed to have more than 9 friends.
> how would you feel if this happened to someone that was unaware of it
in their sleep
> and they were encouraged by your site? A lot of people amuse themselves
> in many ways, but this way is very dangerous.
I hope your guest-book writer isn't upset that you posted his or her
note to Usenet and then I made light of it. But, hey, balloons are fun.
I think it's the double letters what do it.
> The only information I could find was a reference to a British medical
> journal report about a person who ended up emergency room over blowing
> up 20 nine inch balloons.
...which were labelled "SMALL". Wait, that goes to a different joke.
Never mind.
> I could not find any references to the report mention above.
> I feel this is a one of a kind case and believe other circumstances
> were at fault. I have been blowing up giant latex balloons (3 foot
> round and larger) until they burst for about 16 years.
You have a balloon which was bursting for 16 years? Cool. I'm guessing
it sounded like "B" followed by 500,000 "O"s and one "M".
> I only use my lung power alone to burst them. I do feel some tiredness after
> bursting 4 or more giant balloon a day or when I do a 5 or 6 foot
> round balloon. Other than that, I don't have any other health problem.
> I wonder have anybody heard of such reports.
There was that time Terry Jones on "Monty Python" exploded after blowing
up a little balloon and two big balloons, but that was in the episode
"The Golden Age Of Ballooning", which didn't have any balloons in it,
just Zeppelins, so it doesn't count. Anyway, it can't be true 'cause it
was on TV.
Some links you may enjoy:
Big Boys Balloons:
http://members.aol.com/bbballoons/bigboys.html
...sells a sixty-inch HUMAN HEAD balloon! Paint your boss's face at it
and make the balloon go BABOOM!
How Do Balloons Pop?:
http://www.fooledya.com/balloon/faq/howpop.html
...is a technical paper with diagrams and stuff to explain cutting-edge
scientific research in why balloons pop when they die, instead of
running around clutching their chests and moaning like William Shatner.
It's a part of the Fooled Ya Balloon HQ:
http://www.fooledya.com/balloon
...which has an animated GIF that makes a balloon animal. (I'd rather
see vice versa.) Balloon HQ has a list of people you can hire to
twist balloons for you, but I think they only do those sissy little
skinny balloons, not the big round ones. I *dare* those people to
turn a seventy-two-inch spherical balloon into a puppy. AT ACTUAL SIZE.
Anyway, Richard, I would guess that you're okay. I don't have any
medical training, and I don't have much common sense, but I do know this:
If your pastime were dangerous, that bozo Howie Mandel would have exploded
in front of hundreds of drunken college students. Because he now has his
own talk show, I say you can safely keep it up. (And expect to sign
a contract soon.)
-- K.
When I was a little kid I was
terrified of balloons and bubble
gum, probably because of the
first run of "The Prisoner".
Then around age 6 I decided I
really liked balloons. Lately
I saw "The Prisoner" again and
the two cancelled each other
out and now I consider balloons
to be ordinary, harmless objects,
just like televisions or
the Stomp Rocket.
P.S. I recall reading in Omni once that some researchers actually
made a lead balloon out of crinky gray foil. It looked really lumpy
with pointy ends and not at all fun. I suspect you could have popped
it by just looking at it, which would probably give everyone within
a thousand yards a lungful of lead dust. Science needs to devote
more serious research to wacky balloons. How about a wooden balloon?
James Kibo Parry
>
> I have been blowing up giant latex balloons (3 foot
> lung power alone to burst them. I do feel some tiredness after
> bursting 4 or more giant balloon a day or when I do a 5 or 6 foot
> round balloon. Other than that, I don't have any other health problem.
> I wonder have anybody heard of such reports.
Andy Keck replied:
>
> I knew that I rememebered seeing something like this while waiting to
> check out at the grocery store.
You saw a guy's lungs explode at the grocery store? Wow! All I ever
see is that crazy old lady who brings along a pushcart with a stack of
six-year-old newspapers everywhere she goes, which is mostly that market.
> [quoting from a recent issue of Scientific American]
> >
> > "A 24-year-old previously healthy, nonsmoker presented with a 48-hour
> > history of a sensation of crackling under the skin," wrote attending
> > physician Stuart Elborn, then at the University Hospital of Wales, in a
> > recent issue of the British Medical Journal. His examination turned up
> > pockets of air trapped under the skin on the man's shoulders, chest, neck,
> > abdomen, back, arms, legs and, providing a built-in whoopie-cushion
> > effect, derriere.
>
> It seems that this guy had recently inflated many balloons in preparation
> for a party. He manage to rupture some of his alveoli, allowing him to
> pump air under his skin. Apparently, there was no permanent damage, as the
> guy recovered within a couple of weeks.
Cool! I'm tempted to try it. I think it would be cool to see if I could
make inflatable tattoos that way! Then not only would the hula girls
dance when I flex my huge biceps, they'd make wacky noises!
I find it interesting that some of the air went to his butt, some
went to his arms, some went to his legs, etc. How did it know?
Why didn't it all just go into his stomach or something?
And more importantly, if you block a sneeze wrong, would you get
air bubbles or mucus bubbles all over your body?
-- K.
Blowing up balloons is perfectly
safe if you take off your skin first.
Brian Trosko
: Fun Fact based on a post found from my Dejanews Search: Inhaling Xenon
: *lowers* your voice. A Chem teacher apparently did this and had to be held
: upside-down in order to "purge" the Xe from his lungs. Nice trick, but I
: can't imagine that Xenon balloons are any fun otherwise.
If a Chem teacher inhaled a double lungful of Xenon, I doubt he had to be
held upside down; Xenon gas makes quite an excellent general anaesthetic.
Charles A. Lieberman
> A good friend's Dad worked as a
> glassblower for a major petrochemical company and made tubing at their
> neoprene plant. He died of lung cancer, as most of his cow orkers
> did.
Any other possible causes, other risk factors? This looks a bit post hoc
ergo propter hoc-ish to me
Charles "I wanted to ask this in e-mail, but it kept bouncing for some
reason" Lieberman
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JasCJones
Weight lifters instinctvely inhale when letting the weight down and exhale when
pushing it up. The result is a lung full of air when the body is straining the
most. When moving a lot of weight, for example during bench presses, this can
cause damage. I read an article about this written by the founder of Nautilus
equipment. Getting an actual cite might be difficult but I would try if asked.
The recommended breathing, btw, is to exhale on letting the weight down and
inhale when pushing it up.
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tha...@bahnhof.se
:>can't imagine that Xenon balloons are any fun otherwise.
: They're good for producing cognitive dissonance. They look like ordinary
: balloons, but plummet like rocks when released. Amaze your fiends!
Water balloons are far better for this experiment. Especially if you throw
them at your class.
- Sten Thaning
Tony Sweeney
> IIt seems that this guy had recently inflated many balloons in preparation
> for a party. He manage to rupture some of his alveoli, allowing him to
> pump air under his skin. Apparently, there was no permanent damage, as the
> guy recovered within a couple of weeks.
Yeah right. Since the URL is for the March issue, this is presumably an early
April fool. I used to work with a guy who had a lung defect that meant that he
could, literally, burst an alveolus and get air into his pleural cavity. This
resulted in loss of lung volume, with attendant difficulty in breathing and a
hospital visit. Punctured lung -> collapsed lung. I can't see a guy with a
collapsed lung managing to keep going and force air through the normally
impervious pleural sac, intercostal muscles and ribs, somehow.
Tony.
Paul Sweeney
Tony Sweeney wrote in message <363A6426...@informix.com>...
>Yeah right. Since the URL is for the March issue, this is presumably an
early
>April fool. I used to work with a guy who had a lung defect that meant
that he
>could, literally, burst an alveolus and get air into his pleural cavity.
This
>resulted in loss of lung volume, with attendant difficulty in breathing and
a
>hospital visit. Punctured lung -> collapsed lung. I can't see a guy with
a
>collapsed lung managing to keep going and force air through the normally
>impervious pleural sac, intercostal muscles and ribs, somehow.
>
>Tony.
That was exactly my thinking including the April fools bit. I even searched
the BMJ for the original article but found nothing. Then I had a talk with
an anaesthesiologist we have working with us and he described a situation
where an effect like this can occur. Air from the ruptured alveoli does not
enter directly into the pleural cavity but moves through the interstitial
spaces and up outside of the trachea where it normally results in a swelling
of the neck causing problems with ventilation during anaesthesia. His
opinion was that this story could have easily occurred as once the air is in
the subcutaneous space in the neck it will be able to move quite freely
around the body. This I know is true because I have done it myself.
As to the general premise of blowing up balloons being dangerous I do
remember the men who gained entry in to The Guinness Book of records by
blowing up rubber hot water bottles would always warn of possibly fatal
consequences from there action.
Paul "don't even think of asking why. I'd have to kill you." Sweeney
H Gilmer
: the BMJ for the original article but found nothing. Then I had a talk with
: an anaesthesiologist we have working with us and he described a situation
: where an effect like this can occur. Air from the ruptured alveoli does not
: enter directly into the pleural cavity but moves through the interstitial
: spaces and up outside of the trachea where it normally results in a swelling
: of the neck causing problems with ventilation during anaesthesia. His
Ooh, is this why some bagpipers' necks puff out when they play?
Hg
Meek606
>remember the men who gained entry in to The Guinness Book of records by
>blowing up rubber hot water bottles would always warn of possibly fatal
>consequences from there action.
>
>
I saw this guy blow up a hot water bottle in Jim Rose Circus, I think.
-Mieke
Captain Infinity
James "Kibo" Parry wrote:
>> [quoting from a recent issue of Scientific American]
>> >
>> > "A 24-year-old previously healthy, nonsmoker presented with a 48-hour
>> > history of a sensation of crackling under the skin," wrote attending
>> > physician Stuart Elborn, then at the University Hospital of Wales, in a
>> > recent issue of the British Medical Journal. His examination turned up
>> > pockets of air trapped under the skin on the man's shoulders, chest, neck,
>> > abdomen, back, arms, legs and, providing a built-in whoopie-cushion
>> > effect, derriere.
>>
>> It seems that this guy had recently inflated many balloons in preparation
>> for a party. He manage to rupture some of his alveoli, allowing him to
>> pump air under his skin. Apparently, there was no permanent damage, as the
>> guy recovered within a couple of weeks.
...
>I find it interesting that some of the air went to his butt, some
>went to his arms, some went to his legs, etc. How did it know?
>Why didn't it all just go into his stomach or something?
Probably the same way aspirin knows when it should go to your headache and
when it should go to my toothache.
Please tell aspirin to stop going to your headache; my tooth is killing me.
Dumb old aspirin.
>And more importantly, if you block a sneeze wrong, would you get
>air bubbles or mucus bubbles all over your body?
Jaime de Castellvi will now extend this thought to the parallel
consequences of blocking a fart.
Note to self: set temporary killfile on Jaime de Castellvi.
> -- K.
>
> Blowing up balloons is perfectly
> safe if you take off your skin first.
What if you do it with your skin on, but while lying on a bed of nails?
"Don't be afraid, kids, that hissing sound you hear is just the release of
air from my inflated skin pockets. Now, who wants a poodle?"
**
Captain Infinity
...if you filled a blue balloon with blue ink, and then threw it at a
weathergirl, would she disappear?
Mortis
>**
>Captain Infinity
> ...if you filled a blue balloon with blue ink, and then threw it at a
> weathergirl, would she disappear?
And would she make a sound?
Mortis
Master of the Unknown, KPS
Nebulosis defunctus
"Carpe Noctum"
"Contra Malum Mortis Non Est Medicamen In Hortis"
"Ego Sum Lux Mundi. Qui Sequitur Me Non Ambulat In Tenebris."
Chris Franks
>
> Jaime de Castellvi will now extend this thought to the parallel
> consequences of blocking a fart.
In case he doesn't know, it's called "diverticulitis"
Viv
Mortis wrote
:(Captain Infinity) wrote:
:>**
:>Captain Infinity
:> ...if you filled a blue balloon with blue ink, and then threw it at a
:> weathergirl, would she disappear?
:
:And would she make a sound?
Of one hand clapping?
Vivienne "but what if nobody's there to see/hear?" Smythe
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Bother," said Pooh. "Eeyore, ready two photon torpedoes and lock
phasers on the Heffalump; Piglet, meet me in transporter room three"
Captain Infinity
Chris Franks wrote:
Wait wait wait.
Is that the name for when you let it slide out under one cheek,
like the Ace of Spades sliding from a magician's deck? Or when
you clamp it off and colon-gulp it back, as with a vomit burp?
Or when you create an infinitesimal aperture to minimize, if not
eliminate[1] fricative resonance?
Please let me know soon; the interview is Wednesday.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go killfile myself.
**
Captain Infinity
...[1] No pun intended.
Brian JARAI Chase
>:> ...if you filled a blue balloon with blue ink, and then threw it at a
>:> weathergirl, would she disappear?
>:And would she make a sound?
>Of one hand clapping?
IYKWIM, AITYD. HAND.
-jarai.
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Crash
<TRIM>
>
> IYKWIM, AITYD. HAND.
hey, that's awfully close to an emoticon! Better watch it!
>
> -jarai.
> --
> ---
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Leah Verre
Infinity) wrote:
>In article <363E55...@nospam.sc.hp.com>
>Chris Franks wrote:
>
>>Captain Infinity wrote:
>>>
>>> Jaime de Castellvi will now extend this thought to the parallel
>>> consequences of blocking a fart.
>>
>> In case he doesn't know, it's called "diverticulitis"
>
>Wait wait wait.
>
>Is that the name for when you let it slide out under one cheek,
>like the Ace of Spades sliding from a magician's deck?
YM "Like Lemmy singing the Ace of Spades as all his warts
simultaneously explode?"
HTH.
WHO TOOK MY TROPHY PANTIES?
--Ur-Beatle
De Castellvi Jaime M
: In article <kibo-30109...@ppp0a015.std.com>
: James "Kibo" Parry wrote:
:>> [quoting from a recent issue of Scientific American]
:>> >
:>> > "A 24-year-old previously healthy, nonsmoker presented with a 48-hour
:>> > history of a sensation of crackling under the skin," wrote attending
:>> > physician Stuart Elborn, then at the University Hospital of Wales, in a
:>> > recent issue of the British Medical Journal. His examination turned up
:>> > pockets of air trapped under the skin on the man's shoulders, chest, neck,
:>> > abdomen, back, arms, legs and, providing a built-in whoopie-cushion
:>> > effect, derriere.
:>>
:>> It seems that this guy had recently inflated many balloons in preparation
:>> for a party. He manage to rupture some of his alveoli, allowing him to
:>> pump air under his skin. Apparently, there was no permanent damage, as the
:>> guy recovered within a couple of weeks.
: ...
:>I find it interesting that some of the air went to his butt, some
:>went to his arms, some went to his legs, etc. How did it know?
:>Why didn't it all just go into his stomach or something?
: Probably the same way aspirin knows when it should go to your headache and
: when it should go to my toothache.
: Please tell aspirin to stop going to your headache; my tooth is killing me.
: Dumb old aspirin.
:>And more importantly, if you block a sneeze wrong, would you get
:>air bubbles or mucus bubbles all over your body?
: Jaime de Castellvi will now extend this thought to the parallel
: consequences of blocking a fart.
Unfortunately, some of these ramifications extend into realms of esoteric
arcana which were formerly denied to the uninitiated. With the coming of
the age of Aquarius, I believe that denying this knowledge to the masses
to keep them feeding and rutting like animals is no longer in alignment
with the shifting global karma. So, though I may get persecuted for it, I
shall reveal a few secrets.
The initial consequences of blocking a fart include discomfort, malaise
and a feeling of bloatedness. These may persist for a few hours.
Eventually however, and as one learns to transcend the purely material
consciousness of the lower ego, a feeling of warmth and well-being may
gradually displace the discomfort. When this happens, conditions are ripe
for the next stage, the separation of the so-called astral body from the
totality of the being. Effectively, if sustained beyond the initial
discomfort, the blocked fart is sublimated into a surplus of aetheric
energy which induces spontaneous astral projection.
Case studies indicate that there are minor differences between the
manifestations of the astral self which are found in the more conventional
patterns of astral release and those encountered when the act of blocking
a fart induces spontaneous astral release. Essentially, in the latter
case, unusual sulphurous odours have been reported in some cases (though
not every single one of them, a discrepancy that is yet to be explained
to my satisfaction). In the days of old, superstition and ignorance often
led folks who were subjected to the odorous astral manifestation of an
individual who had held on to a fart to assume that the latter might be a
witch in league with the devil, or the devil itself incarnated into
vapour, and many innocent people were cruelly burnt at the stake as a
result. Naturally, when this happened, the methane within would
eventually ignite with unpleasant consequences which did much to reinforce
superstition. This is not so much a problem today since we live in a more
enlightened society, but some of your Akashic records may tingle a bit at
reading this, if you were one such victim, and if so now you know why you
have such a problem controlling your flatulence in this particular
incarnation which you have freely chosen.
For those of you interested in the ancient and secret mysteries and who
have read the above with some interest, I think I may fruitfully share
with you a very unique case of Kundalini arousal, which may hold the added
virtue of being the only inherently Western path of Kundalini arousal
known to us to date. It was discovered by a coal miner whose last name
happened to be Bombalini. In his spare time, he was also a bit of a
wine-maker.
Bombalini was not exactly a likely candidate for a MENSA award but he was
spiritually inclined, after his own fashion, and having being placed by
the unerring hand of his destiny in the position of attending a Kundalini
workshop, his interest was aroused. He tried to read on the subject,
albeit with limited success (he was also an avid watcher of _Babylon 5_,
and it is questionable whether this had any noticeable effect on his
spiritual progress but I mention it only because it justifies this
cross-post). He soon discovered that conventional meditation just didn't
do the trick for him. So he came to devise his own unique approach to
Kundalini arousal.
Essentially, he would close his eyes. He would picture himself dressed in
full mining attire, including tools and flashlight, inside his own brain
(which he imagined to be a cave). He would visualize the center of his
spine as a very deep and narrow shaft, hollow all the way to the very
bottom. So he would see standing besides it, looking dowm into the hollow
darkness sinking deep into the ground. Then, for half an hour daily, he
would proceed to yell down the shaft, "Yow! Anybody there? Yow!" His
voice would echo and be lost in the profundity and darkness of it, at his
feet. Some days, he would even kick a stone or two down the shaft, and
listen to it bound and bound until he could hear it no more. But he
figured that if there were any Kundalini down there to be had, it would
eventually be aroused by the stones or by his call.
For many long years nothing really happened. The shaft remained dark.
Once a buddy of him told him about an sf writter named Ben Yallow. So
that day he tried variations on his usual call. Instead of "Yow! Yow!
Anybody there? Yow!", he experimented with "Yallow? Yow! Yallow? Yow!
Yow? Yallow! Yallow!" He tried this for a month, but nothing changed.
Eventually, he gave up the new idea and went back to his old system.
After seven years, things slowly started to happen. At first it was only
the mild rumble of somehing, something he thought he could hear at the
very bottom of the deep, dark shaft. Two more years went slowly by, and
the rumble got louder. Now he thought he could just make out a vague
purple-like glow at the very deepest end of the shaft. Three more years
went by. The rumble was now undeniable (it often reminded him of his
belly after a good plate of beans and rice), and the glow was very
discernible now, brighter every day. And then one day, as he was staring
down the shaft hollering "Yow! Yow!", Kundalini rushed up to him and
punched him in the face.
The Kundalini energy has often been likened to a serpent, curled around
the base of the spine. I think it is fair to say that in Bombalini's
case, it had been aroused and called in so exasperating a fashion that it
had become a dragon. Nonetheless, Bombalini's Kundalini was effectively
aroused and, other than the fact that the initial blow had been so
impressed in his aetheric body that Bombalini's physical face forever bore
the mark in the form of a black eye, he was spiritually enlightened and
much improved, and he lived happily and with much fulfillment for ever
after.
So the method works. It just takes some time before it manifests. I'm
sure that it is also susceptible to improvement. I have already heard of
a case in which, instead of rocks, the spiritual aspirant experimented
with marshmallow *peeps*. Apparently, this caused the initial
manifestation of Kundalini to be much less abrupt, and the overall effects
milder.
: Note to self: set temporary killfile on Jaime de Castellvi.
Another arcane tenet never before revealed. When Infinity proceeds to
trollerize me by calling upon my full name, in time I will appear and
reveal deep secrets of hidden wisdom to those aspiring ones who happen to
be around to hear.
Peace and Prosperity, my friends, Joy and Contentment,
:> -- K.
:>
:> Blowing up balloons is perfectly
:> safe if you take off your skin first.
: What if you do it with your skin on, but while lying on a bed of nails?
: "Don't be afraid, kids, that hissing sound you hear is just the release of
: air from my inflated skin pockets. Now, who wants a poodle?"
: **
: Captain Infinity
: ...if you filled a blue balloon with blue ink, and then threw it at a
: weathergirl, would she disappear?
Cheers,
*Peep*!
Jaime de Castellvi
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
/ "I *will* find a way... ^ Jaime M. de Castellví \
/ and you will *rue* the day, ^ http://qlink.queensu.ca/~3cjmd \
/ Jaime de Castellví, ^ 3c...@qlink.queensu.ca \
/ that you farted as you went ^ \
/ into me!" -name withheld- ^ \
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James Kibo Parry
>
> James "Kibo" Parry (ki...@world.std.com) wrote:
> >
> > [someone was quoting from a recent issue of Scientific American]
> > >
> > > His examination turned up pockets of air trapped under the skin on the
> > > man's shoulders, chest, neck, abdomen, back, arms, legs and, providing
> > > a built-in whoopie-cushion effect, derriere.
> >
> > went to his arms, some went to his legs, etc. How did it know?
> > Why didn't it all just go into his stomach or something?
>
> Probably the same way aspirin knows when it should go to your headache and
> when it should go to my toothache.
>
> Please tell aspirin to stop going to your headache; my tooth is killing me.
>
> Dumb old aspirin.
I thought aspirin went to your ass and headprin went to your head.
Am I wrong in making this completely logical assumption?
THIS IS A COMPLETELY SCIENTIFIC LEAP OF FANTASY!
> > And more importantly, if you block a sneeze wrong, would you get
> > air bubbles or mucus bubbles all over your body?
>
> Jaime de Castellvi will now extend this thought to the parallel
> consequences of blocking a fart.
>
> Note to self: set temporary killfile on Jaime de Castellvi.
But if you block his posts wrong you could get pockets of discussion of
farts all over your screen.
SO MUCH MEMES--THE END!!!
> > Blowing up balloons is perfectly safe if you take off your skin first.
>
> What if you do it with your skin on, but while lying on a bed of nails?
> "Don't be afraid, kids, that hissing sound you hear is just the release of
> air from my inflated skin pockets. Now, who wants a poodle?"
Know that guy who keeps appearing on lame TV variety shows, the guy who
blows up a big balloon and then climbs inside it and bounces around for
way too long? I'm thinking I'd like to see Jesse "Almost Governor" Ventura
tie the balloon into a poddle while he's inside it, and also it should
be filled with water and jammed into a sink that's had the U-joint removed,
so that if he tries to get out he'll get WATER ON HIS BATHROOM FLOOR!
Water funny! Balloons popping exciting! Variety shows stupid!
-- K.
Variety shows never contain actual
music, actual comedy, actual acting,
etc., because then they could call it
a kind of show other than "variety".
As a result, variety shows only contain
those branches of the entertainment
tree which are fruitless, such as
chimps, raconteurs, ventriloqy,
and faux Siamese twins.
rca...@uswest.net
wrote:
Semi-long Xenon story debunk
>Fun Fact based on a post found from my Dejanews Search: Inhaling Xenon
>*lowers* your voice. A Chem teacher apparently did this and had to be held
>upside-down in order to "purge" the Xe from his lungs. Nice trick, but I
>can't imagine that Xenon balloons are any fun otherwise.
>[1] Or so my high school Chemistry teacher assured me. He was kind of
>sketchy, though. [2]
>[2] Some would argue that this is a requirement.
-
That story is really unlikely: as you imply.
It would lower the pitch of a voice. Since gasses all have the same[1]
average momentum per atom[in this case] or molecule, increasing the
atomic [or molecular] weight would decrease the average velocity,
which is in fact the speed of sound. Therefore any resonent
cavity, whistle, horn, your vocal equipment, would operate at a
lower pitch. The lungs are pretty much guarenteed to have highly
turbulent flow, and each breath mixes pretty thoroughly with the
residual lung contents [tidal air]. The bit about needing gravity to
get the stuff out is utter nonsense, of course. According to my
4 year old CRC the stuff is sold in sealed glass containers for
about twenty bucks a liter. There is nothing you can do with it
except fill photoflash lamps[2], and if the guy was a physicist,
just maybe, but the story is not set in the laser lab. If a chemistry
teacher had any he brought it from home or stole it down the hall.
And they don't build custom optically pumped lasers at most HS's.
With an atomic weight of 131, it is more than 4 times as dense
as air.
1. At any given temperature. It increases with temperature,
and mach one drops about one hundred MPH from sea level
to jet airline altitudes, due to temperature drop. Pressure has no
effect. I have a slide rule with a scale for that. Called an E6-B
air navigation computer.
2. Come to think of it fancy auto head lights as well. Mercedes
Benz for one, and it is basically the same thing.A type of light
bulb, either way. Really expensive headlights. There are ultra
high power xenon arc lamps, with exotic industrial applications.
Scientific American had something on that.
Casady
Richard Casady
>
> no.spam...@bigfoot.com
> > A good friend's Dad worked as a
> > glassblower for a major petrochemical company and made tubing at their
> > neoprene plant. He died of lung cancer, as most of his cow orkers
> > did.
>
> Any other possible causes, other risk factors? This looks a bit post hoc
> ergo propter hoc-ish to me
How about asbestos? In the glass shop, as well as out in the plant.
I would bet there were asbestos insulated steam lines and possibly
asbestos insulated glass lines, or steam jackets around glass lines.
Chemical plants used to have asbestos everywhere, and it is
synergistic
with smoking, and, perhaps, with whatever fumes are breathed as part
of the glass blowers trade. This is speculation of course. I haven't
seen anything on it. Did everyone in the plant have a high cancer
rate, a common allegation regarding that industry. Several relatives
died of cancer after living most of their lives in a chemical town.
Texas City, Texas. They did smoke. One was a chemical plant pipe
fitter, and much of the steel pipe he worked with involved asbestos,
and I don't know why glass would be different. Much of that kind of
thing takes place at elevated temperatures, to raise reaction rates,
to make the reaction go at all, and in some cases, to melt, or lower
the viscosity of, the reactants. 2,4,6 trinitrotoluene, TNT, melts
at 80C and bomb plants moved it around in asbestos insulated steam
heated lines.
Casady
Charles Wm. Dimmick
> How about asbestos? In the glass shop, as well as out in the plant.
> I would bet there were asbestos insulated steam lines and possibly
> asbestos insulated glass lines, or steam jackets around glass lines.
Except that the asbestos steam jackets are made of chrysotile
asbestos, which is not carcinogenic (1).
> Several relatives
> died of cancer after living most of their lives in a chemical town.
> Texas City, Texas. They did smoke. One was a chemical plant pipe
> fitter, and much of the steel pipe he worked with involved asbestos,
> and I don't know why glass would be different. Much of that kind of
> thing takes place at elevated temperatures, to raise reaction rates,
> to make the reaction go at all, and in some cases, to melt, or lower
> the viscosity of, the reactants. 2,4,6 trinitrotoluene, TNT, melts
> at 80C and bomb plants moved it around in asbestos insulated steam
> heated lines.
Asbestos cement pipe is often made of crocidolite asbestos or amosite
asbestos, both of which are highly carcinogenic. The same thing applies
to asbestos sheet rock, about 20% of which is crocidolite or amosite.
(1) Nuhfer, et. al., 1993, Citizen's Guide to Geologic Hazards, pub. by
American Institute of Professional Geologists.
Ross, M. 1984, A survey of asbestos-related disease in trades and mining
occupations and in factory and mining communities as a means of predicting
health risks of non-occupational exposure to fibrous minerals: Amer. Soc.
for Testing Materials, Special Technical Publication 834, pp.51-104.
Charles Wm. Dimmick
Christopher Chase
(ki...@world.std.com) blathered:
: In alt.folklore.urban, Richard Brown (rich...@my-dejanews.com) wrote:
: > [quoting from a recent issue of Scientific American]
: > >
: > > "A 24-year-old previously healthy, nonsmoker presented with a 48-hour
: > > history of a sensation of crackling under the skin," wrote attending
: > > physician Stuart Elborn, then at the University Hospital of Wales, in a
: > > recent issue of the British Medical Journal. His examination turned up
: > > pockets of air trapped under the skin on the man's shoulders, chest,
: > > neck,
: > > abdomen, back, arms, legs and, providing a built-in whoopie-cushion
: > > effect, derriere.
: >
: > It seems that this guy had recently inflated many balloons in preparation
: > for a party. He manage to rupture some of his alveoli, allowing him to
: > pump air under his skin. Apparently, there was no permanent damage, as the
: > guy recovered within a couple of weeks.
That's too bad. I was thinking of how nice it would be if the whole Power
Team (You know, those muscle-bound d00ds that go around breaking cement
blocks and tearing phone books in half, and screaming, "I BLOW UP HOT WATER
BOTTLES FOR THE LORD!) just turned into giant bubble paper sheets for the
rest of their lives.
: And more importantly, if you block a sneeze wrong, would you get
: air bubbles or mucus bubbles all over your body?
Well, what would you rather have, mucus all over your body or mucus lumps
inside your body? Personally, I think the lumps are more marketable. Hell,
I'd pay a buck to see a giant snot-dude at the fair.
--
Chris Chase
Grand Wizard - KPS of Texas
Kamikaze Peep Squad
Richard Casady
>
> On Fri, 30 Oct 1998 05:08:46 GMT, in alt.folklore.urban,alt.religion.kibology,
> ki...@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) wrote:
>
> $ P.S. I recall reading in Omni once that some researchers actually
> $ made a lead balloon out of crinky gray foil. It looked really lumpy
The guys at the Arthur Little Corp. did that. There were two if I
recall correctly. They anchored them outdoors, with a very
'carefully'
designed line, which promptly broke, and they flew quite well.
They also made a silk purse out of something like like 100 pounds
of sow's ears. I don't think I read about it in Omni, although it
probably was reported there, perhaps Scientific American.
Casady
D.P. Roberts
> made a lead balloon out of crinky gray foil. It looked really lumpy
Omni was a great magazine. They once had plans for a paper airplane
that the author claimed he could fly by just balancing it on the
breeze from his head. I let that issue sit around for years, always
intending to build that plane. I guess I finally pitched the issue.
Talysman
write in alt.religion.kibology:
:)Omni was a great magazine. They once had plans for a paper airplane
:)that the author claimed he could fly by just balancing it on the
:)BREEZE FROM HIS HEAD.
[ emphasis added. ]
those Omni authors always did have a strong breeze emanating from
their individual skulls...
I used to have the first issue of Omni, until I moved to another
state and the issue refused to move with me. it was pretty good
in the first few years, despite being published by a pornographer,
but it went downhill from there. now it's nothing but a slick
saucer magazine.
--
Lick a caveman on your special day!
His Most Feathered Eminence, the Ur-Beatle
your best friend. ever.