Aside from the 20 minute part, this is basically what you do for dry mouth — which can make cavities and morning breath and sore gums worse. The commercial ones are just nastier oils. And maybe some flouride.

It's dead. It cannot taste anything. Not to mention that one peels off the taste buds.

All of this is simply making sure to eat all of what you have at hand. Blood is eaten because it is nutritious (ask the Masai), tongue is nutritious, balut, I really have no idea.

Wonderful idea. It seems like everything but humans and koalas hate eucalyptus.

That is brilliant. Eucalyptus will also do damage to flea eggs (learned that during a very bad flea summer in LA) and dissuade ants.

I saw a dental surgeon who came in to check on the progress of my healing and **tapped me on the shoulder** with the little mirror thing. I asked that he get a clean one. I was quietly horrified.

Well, you know what they say — de disgustibus non est disputandem.

No wonder you hate raw oysters. Like mussels, they have to be fresh out of the water to be wonderful. You go up the Northern California coast to one of the oyster farms or to Booth Bay Harbor and get fresh ersters. Or to Maryland or Virginia and get the almost gone chincoteague oyster. If they have been sitting around…

Sea urchin/uni is so marvelous I have it for desert when I go for sushi. But, it has to be really fresh or it gets a little more bitter than is perfect.

I did that once with agar, trying to make coconut water jello. Made coconut water and agar frisbee instead. Nastiness in almost clear form.

Coconut water. Got me through chemo. It has the sugar and electrolytes without the fake flavorings and other crap in gatorade.

Are you otherwise double jointed? This happens a lot to people with collagen disorders — basically, all the helpful tendons and the like that stabilize everything are like loose rubber bands and things fall out of place.

Stupidest thing on the internet today. You win.

That's not the worst thing in the board cross today — being jumped over because you took too much air and got slow was the worst. Not physically painful, but sheesh.

In California, dairies are required to add protein to skimmed milks to make them closer to equivalent to regular. Non-fat is sweeter than higher fatter milks, but at least here they are not just lactose and water. Which is a good thing since lactose free fat-free milk (or non-milk milk) is on the market.

Actually a really good question.

And if it did, it would still be time to stop.

Serious old (in internet terms) here. I do information security for highly regulated companies. I actually spend much less time using my phone as something other than a phone, but I understand the concept. Damned print is usually too small in the settings and my hands aren't what they used to be.....

Watched a few heats for the women speedskaters and I think there is a problem with either suits or skates. Watch them coming out of the turns — the non-American skaters do just fine, but the Americans are struggling every time. I blame the teflon inner thigh stuff — I would think one would need not to have slippery…

Ack! Me, too! Allergic to albuterol. There is this wonderful new steroid for asthma that does not cause thrush or any of the other hideousness that usually comes along (ciclesonide). It does not activate as a steroid til it hits the lungs.