Behold the Lizardman

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday December 20, 1999 @03:18PM from the they-gotta-be-making-this-up dept.

WhiskeyJack writes "At the cutting edge of body art, student Erik Sprague of Albany New York has turned himself into a human lizard. His parents must be awfully proud. :) " Surgically split tongue. Ridge implants in his forehead. Green scales. And then there's me: scared to put on a rub-on tatoo ;)Update: 12/21 08:26 by H : For the not-so-squeamish, Zorro sent us some shots and pictures of the lizardman. Forked tongue, indeed.

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Pictures Of Him And A Bio by Carnage4Life · 1999-12-20 10:46 · Score: 4

Here's a time magazine article,an interview , his bio.

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Re:Some Pictures of the guy by Roundeye · 1999-12-20 10:51 · Score: 4

Must be some early shots (as most of the mods aren't there). Now I'm nearly as open-minded as the next {guy,lizard,wookie}, and more Libertarian than most (hey, what you do to yourself is your business so long as it ain't messing up my jolly good time). And I'd be the last to judge the guy's character or abilities based upon the fact that he's got a Klingon cranium or has to brush between his tongue...
Dude, power on if you're doing what you feel to be your calling in life. Congratulations. But, I can think of about 1,000 other ways to express one's creativity, be rebellious, get press, etc., that (1) leave you multiple options in the job market, (2) don't make you look like a moron when (or possibly WAAAAY before) you turn 60, (3) won't get your ass kicked between the pinball machines if you happen to have a layover in San Antonio, and (4) are reversible.
On a social level, I see the word "extreme" batted around in relation to this. "Extreme", as in "probably a bad idea", yes. "Extreme" as in "cool and MTV-televisable", who gives a shit? If we, as a society, took more notice of the things right and wrong around us, with an eye to making things more equitable for our fellow {men,women,lizards,klingons,lawyers,etc.}, than we do of someone making an arguable artistic statement by spending his government loan stipend and circus checks on scale tattoos and tooth filing, do you think maybe we wouldn't be completely fucked up as a race?

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Why not Nirva? by GeorgeH · 1999-12-20 10:56 · Score: 4

If /. is going to be publishing stuff about body modification, why not go with someone who has something to do with computers? He's been the editor of Phrack, he has really cool body modifications, and he produces code.

Check out Nirva.

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Personally I think that body modification is cool, but do we really need it on /.? There's a lot of good stories that are getting rejected, and we get stuff like this? I guess I would feel better about it if there weren't 200 stories in the queue right now. Some of those are probably really interesting things that we won't see.
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Re:Some Pictures of the guy by grappler · 1999-12-20 11:02 · Score: 4

These things you say may be true, but consider, lest we forget:

he got posted on Slashdot.

All was not in vain.

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Some Pictures of the guy by CokeBear · 1999-12-20 10:25 · Score: 4

Damn... this is for real! http://www.achilles.net/~dextr a/spako/spidergod.html

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