This potato sprout kind of looks like an embryonic hand. It's waving at you! "Hi Cassie!!!"

This was something suggested in "Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask," if I remember correctly.

It's like someone was playing a game of contraceptive "telephone" with her. The true yam (aka the "sweet potato" [which are not the same thing, but try telling that to Americans]) is a source of hormones used in making, among other things, contraceptive pills. So you can, actually, make a contraceptive out of a…

Wasn't there a Roald Dahl story about a man who had truffles or something growing in his butt? And then the doctor scraped some off and took it home to his family? And they all ate the butt-truffles and started growing butt-truffles of their own??

Lol. I shared this on FB and some "friend" of a "friend" hit me up with the following gem:

Ron PrattMy head is going to explode. Even if you are totally ignorant, does a potato even sound plausible? ??????? Let alone 2 weeks stuffed in the Holy of holys? I was born and raised catholic and I am sorry, the church didn't…

The spider thing is not a myth; a similar thing happened to a friend of mine, though the spider-baby abscess was on his arm. Totally likely it happened to someone's face at some point in time.

As a player and a coach, I can tell you that the lack of equipment in rugby has a lot to do with the relative lack of serious injuries. Sure, there are bruises and sprains but we just don't have people using their heads as weapons to spear people.

I thought it was bad when my prof told a story about his wife who is a pharmacist and she had a girl complaining about her birth control. The problem was it wasn't staying inside her and kept falling out. It was oral birth control.

I just started screaming internally. I'm never eating potatoes for the next few weeks. Thanks Mark for making childhood fears of plants growing inside me come true. You'll receive my therapy bills shortly.

I went to school with girls who thought douching with coke was a contraceptive. Abstinence programs work, Y'all!

"I thought nothing could be scarier than a human growing a potato"

I've seen too many people sit there, with absolutely no cars coming the opposite direction.

I always take it to mean "You have the right of way, but there's an elevated chance that other drivers might not realize this, so proceed with caution"

I would also add to this:

Well, as for why they're still separated, it's got to do with their being different organizations—Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts do have pretty different philosophies on a lot of things.

This issue is a tough one, which frustrates me endlessly. When I was at school, we had the WISE (Women into science and engineering) bus come to school. It was pretty cool, but there was only me and one other girl from the year below me who were interested. Well, us and my male friends who hung round the door…

The page for Scouts in general is reasonable. Plus, why the hell can't sparkle, health and beauty products be for boys too? There was a similar sparkly makeup girls camps where I used to live—my friend signed up her 14 year old boy for it (he is remarkably chill and feminist for a 14 year old).

Well, as a true dyed-in-the-wool pervert who used to sell sex toys, I can tell you that my immediate first thought was, "oh yeah. Textured." So that would be my guess as to why pepperoni. If you don't want to go out and buy a big veiny dildo, this might be your cheapest option. Or else he's using the cheap stuff…