From: David Lubkin (lubkin@unreasonable.com)
Date: Thu Oct 14 1999 - 20:13:41 MDT
>The human body was improved by eliminating such vestigial, useless, and
>sometimes harmful items as the appendix, tonsils, [and] wisdom teeth....
It has been well-established for decades that the appendix and tonsils are
neither vestigial nor useless. They perform important physiological
functions, none of which I remember just now. But I did read that people
who've had their tonsils out have a higher rate of some cancers than
people with haven't. On the other hand, if you have them removed, they
give you lots of ice cream. And everybody likes ice cream.
I'm already a mutant myself, having never had wisdom teeth. (I can also
wiggle my ears!)
Other than this, Karl Jahn is completely right, of course.
Hey, do we get to be Evil Geniuses now, too? I want a t-shirt.
-- David Lubkin,
lusting for lust for "wealth, power, novelty and machinery"
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