2/5: Scorpion wine

Of all the dopey...! This is in northern Thailand, where they believe that rice wine fermented with scorpions in it can cure disease, increase sexual potency, and remove the thatch out of your lawn, make all the kids grow up to be above average, etc.

But then again, there are too many quack devices and products here in the US too. If you watch a lot of cable TV as I do, and listen to mainstream radio, you are just as likely to see and hear about hundreds of bogus medical things. Especially fitness-related, weight-loss, and herbal products. Half of what is advertised is lightly-concealed fraud. It really ticks me off, personally, but... what're yuh gonna do?

Drink some scorpion wine to help grow the muscles and then go beat some ass!

I used to watch a lot of TV and I'd see the most ridiculous products advertised. One has to wonder how they could possibly do what they say they're going to when they're selling SuperGizmo Plus Gold Edition for "ONLY NINETEEN NINETY FIVE!" I just don't see how they could possibly recoup any development costs on this amazing product if they're selling it for less than it should cost to put together anyway. Oh well. I don't buy junk off TV

drink enough scorpion wine and you won't need one either

Scorpion Wine....arent they that 70s band out of Thunder Bay? Yeah, I remember they had that album "Muscle Boned" with the chart topping hit "Fragrant Lies.."

I thought it was "Flagrant Lies", but maybe my memory escapes me...

Vagrant Flies? Variant Cries? Vibrant Thai-s?

mmm Thai

That dish, served with live scorpions, is known as <b>Pad Ballsy</b>.

Oh, my bad, I thought this had something to do with King Scorpion, the ancient pre-dynastic Egyptian ruler.



With a new movie starring The Rock, coming to theaters near you!!

/me rolls her eyes.

You wanna talk about crap that sells? http://www.alexchiu.com/eternallife/index.html I don't know anyone that has paid money, but many people were advertising for him a while back. He had (may still have) a program that would earn you a free Immortality Ring if you did some advertising. Every 3rd geek had a .sig that said, "LIVE FOREVER!"
On a similar note, I think Marylin vos Savant had a pretty good answer this past Sunday (she has a column in the Sunday "Parade Magazine" insert in many national papers) to the question of immortality. She weighed the possibility of famine, disease, war, starvation, and most anything else unpleasant against living forever. I think her answer was that she would not enjoy immortality because there's always the possibility of living forever in complete unhappines. That goes double for me.

Plus, you would miss out on pie heaven!

i agree with that. and there would be technological advances and whatnot, but i'd be too afraid of getting bored.

Mmmm, pie heaven... pumpkin... boston cream... key lime... apple...

Getting bored: omg, good point. Never thought of that.

Although maybe in another five lifetimes, one could work out what people are really all about. Understanding women, huh, there's a five-lifetime project.

Ha! Tony is funny

Personally, I wouldn't mind being immortal, so long as I wasn't in jail or something. It'd be kinda neat, I think. Play with all the toys, do all sorts of fun things. I don't think I'd get bored. Besides, your love interests would constantly be getting old and dying, so you could just find another cute girl every couple decades and, uh, "have fun" that way

D - That's immor<b>T</b>al. You might be getting them confused.

Nah. Immortality == new woman at least every 60-70 years.

Being immortal?

I'm afraid of how "out of date" I'd become. Imagine spending eternity watching a world totally different from the one you were raised in. Imagine a world that becomes more alien to you with every passing day.

Imagine being relegated to sitting on a bench on a busy street, sighing wistfully about how spoiled the children are now, about how things were when you were a child and having the youth of the day listen to you with cute faces showing distaste and lacking comprehension of your words. How would you describe our lives to them?

That's how I sometimes think our human relics must feel, brought up in their times, what I might even consider a primitive world, living in our modern world.

I just keep envisioning tattered old bones resting on a bench by a dusty street. Immortality would be horrible.

Yoda, the ancient and revered Jedi Master. Nine hundred years old,
Yoda had trained Jedi for eight centuries, and was very powerful in the Force.