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Totenkopf
19 Feb 2005, 07:23 PM
I had never heard of a parasitic twin head before. :shock:

It's incredibly horrifying! The article mentions other parasitic twins capable of smiling and blinking! And then they had to separate them! That's awful!

Egyptian doctors said they removed a second head from a 10-month-old girl suffering from one of the rarest birth defects in an operation on Saturday.
http://g.msn.com/0MNBUS00/2?http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6998205&&CM=EmailThis&CE=1
Sackanaka
19 Feb 2005, 07:31 PM
I wonder what life would be like as a parasitic head that survived... :/
Boneca
19 Feb 2005, 07:59 PM
Now, I wonder what pro-life activists would say about this. Is it murder to remove a parasitic head?
Star
19 Feb 2005, 08:03 PM
Would you want to keep a second head, if it meant you'd be twice as smart?

(This is horrifying.. I can't stop staring at that picture.)
Arioch
19 Feb 2005, 08:33 PM
"Honey, did we ever tell you about the sister you once had"
"No mommy, what happend to her?"
"Well she was stuck to your head so we had to cut her off. See! We do love you!
We love you so much we killed for you!"
glassmoon
19 Feb 2005, 09:14 PM
I don't know why, but I didn't find this very funny.

Boneca - I think the Muslims don't do abortions, so it can't be comaperd to it.
Hypnos
19 Feb 2005, 11:22 PM
Parasitic twins is a special, rare case of conjoined twins. There's a pair in the US in which both are perfectly normal intellectually, and one is only head and upper chest.

http://phreeque.tripod.com/hensel_sisters.html
CoHo
19 Feb 2005, 11:29 PM
Wow, that's fucked up

I guess I'll have to add Not-being-a-deformed-baby-head to my Reasons to be Happy list.
glassmoon
19 Feb 2005, 11:42 PM
Parasitic twins is a special, rare case of conjoined twins. There's a pair in the US in which both are perfectly normal intellectually, and one is only head and upper chest.

http://phreeque.tripod.com/hensel_sisters.html
Oh my. I've never seen anything like this. It's amazing they're alive, I don't understand how it can be possible anatomically.


I guess I'll have to add Not-being-a-deformed-baby-head to my Reasons to be Happy list.Me too.
jimkopelli
20 Feb 2005, 01:30 AM
I guess I'll have to add Not-being-a-deformed-baby-head to my Reasons to be Happy list.
Quite.
Elro
20 Feb 2005, 01:36 AM
You know what they say.. "Two heads are better than one."
jimkopelli
20 Feb 2005, 02:06 AM
"...but not when literally joined at the skull."
MasterMerk
20 Feb 2005, 02:36 AM
It's all very crazy an unnerving.

And reminds me of Zaphod Breeblebrox.
Niflheimian
20 Feb 2005, 04:56 AM
Somehow I'm tempted to use this as my avatar:
Star
20 Feb 2005, 05:14 AM
Somehow I'm tempted to use this as my avatar:

That's just mean.

But I can't help being reminded of this:

http://uo.stratics.com/hunters/movies/ettin2.gif

which is probably meaner.
Niflheimian
20 Feb 2005, 05:22 AM
How is it mean?
Star
20 Feb 2005, 05:28 AM
How is it mean?

Using their difference for sensational effect. Which may not be what you meant at all.
Architectonic
20 Feb 2005, 05:57 AM
You know what they say.. "Two heads are better than one."

Somehow I think I am no longer going to use that particular proverb anymore.
glassmoon
20 Feb 2005, 04:08 PM
Using their difference for sensational effect. Which may not be what you meant at all.
And I thought the times of 'The Elephant Man' are gone.
flan2dave
21 Feb 2005, 05:21 AM
The guiness show on fox showed a Chinese man who grew into adulthood with a parasitic twin...much smaller than this one, but still clearly a second head, complete with a mouth that open and closed along with his own (er, regular mouth).
songbird36
21 Feb 2005, 05:53 AM
I wish someone would remove my second head.

I'm posting way too much on here...
Serotonin
21 Feb 2005, 06:02 AM
Wow. They've probably already hit puberty by now. So there's the tricky issue of boyfriends....
Hypnos
21 Feb 2005, 06:11 AM
Wow. They've probably already hit puberty by now. So there's the tricky issue of boyfriends....
On the other hand, every guy who hooks up with one of them will be automatically getting a threesome.

And twiiiiinzzz!
Dunearhp
21 Feb 2005, 07:17 PM
They will probably each date different boys. That would be awkward. The boys would get in trouble if they held the wrong hand.
glassmoon
21 Feb 2005, 07:56 PM
I still don't see how it's anatomically possible...
Niflheimian
21 Feb 2005, 08:03 PM
On the other hand, every guy who hooks up with one of them will be automatically getting a threesome.

And twiiiiinzzz!

Keep in mind that the girls share everything from the waist below.

Though I have a feeling they won't get many requests for dates: they'd scare most boys.
QrioCT
21 Feb 2005, 08:22 PM
Wow. They've probably already hit puberty by now. So there's the tricky issue of boyfriends....

what if one of them is lesbian and the other one isn't?
Sackanaka
23 Feb 2005, 04:16 PM
or if one of them turns suicidal?
I'm sure evolution will deal with it one way or another.
Here's to conjoined twins! :cheers:
sme_bro
24 Feb 2005, 02:17 AM
I saw the documentry on them last year here in New Zealand. When it came to boys they both liked different boys at school. They play sports and stuff.
I know its weird but i used to dream of having a second head, when i was a kid it was my wish.