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Fish Poison Makes Hot Feel Cold and Vice Versa
SoyChemist writes "Ciguatoxin causes bizarre neurological symptoms including temperature reversal, a burning sensation, and an imaginary feeling of loose teeth. It is produced by algae and accumulates in the fatty flesh of tropical fish. While traveling to the tropics, a man from England ate some bad seafood that contained the unusual poison. His story, and the tale of some unfortunate sailors of an earlier age who suffered the same affliction, appeared in the current issue of Practical Neurology and was summarized on the Wired Science Blog. Both the Wired blog and the peer-reviewed journal neglected to mention that the potent neurotoxin has been made from scratch by organic chemists."
paradoxical dysaesthesia is hot.
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Errr I mean...Hot!
Ah yes, good old XNOR poison... It's been a long time old friend.
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...would "Practical Neurology" be where you go if you're planning on having a drinking buddy do your brain surgery?
Share it... for mutually assured destruction :)
The article failed to mention where can I get some of this poison? I need to cut down on my heating bill this winter.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
Fish poisson?
-1 not first post
Don't give the Bush administration any more ideas.
When the axe came to the forest, the trees said, "Look out - the handle was once one of us."
Can do this too. And cheaper.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
In soviet russia, unusual fish poison that makes you feel hot as cold and cold as hot makes you feel hot as hot and cold as cold.
Awesome! I can't wait to read this on the back of deodorant spray cans:
PoisonCorp(TM) Cool&Fresh(TM) dedorant will give your skin a cool and fresh feeling and will prevent sweating for up to twenty years.
Known possible side effects include prickling of the skin, headaches, numbness, diarrhea, vomiting, dehydration, hyperthermia, hallucinations, lung failure, kidney failure, cardiac arrest, an atypical form of Parkinson's disease, coma and death.
Not to be taken orally. Keep out of the reach of small children.
Warning: PoisonCorp(TM) Cool&Fresh(TM) dedorant is known to build up in the groundwater and in animals. Any object that has been in direct contact with PoisonCorp(TM) Cool&Fresh(TM) dedorant at any point as well as the remains of persons, cremated or not, who have used PoisonCorp(TM) Cool&Fresh(TM) dedorant at any point may not be disposed of normally and must be handed over to the Environmental Protection Agency as per the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ("Superfund Act") of 1980.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
"what the hell is my wife taking that makes her cold even when I'm sweating bullets!"
Don't worry, in a few more years, she'll be feeling hot all the time. And she'll yell at you a lot. For no reason you're aware of.
But on the plus side, all your hair will fall out, and your children will consider you stupid. Which, all things considered, you are.
And to avoid your friends thinking you're loony toony.
Without sharing:
"Oww, this fish is too piping hot to eat!" - You
"Umm, are you going crazy? This dish is served cold." -Everyone Else
With sharing:
"Ack, this shit's too hot!" - You
"Right on brother." - Everyone
Caveat Emptor is not a business model.
Dude, I think he meant for her...