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mwhittington wrote:

Mikey wrote:Except for Pallas - nobody had sex to create her; she just popped out of Zeus' forehead!

You know your the King of the Gods when you squeeze a zit and it comes to life!

Actually, he had a headache, and so asked Hephaestus, i think it was, to split his head open with an axe (as you do)

And Pallas Athene popped out in full ceremonial wargear, yelling warcries at the top of her lungs.

Hell of a baby shower.

Jabber Swarky wrote:

mwhittington wrote:

Mikey wrote:Except for Pallas - nobody had sex to create her; she just popped out of Zeus' forehead!

You know your the King of the Gods when you squeeze a zit and it comes to life!

Actually, he had a headache, and so asked Hephaestus, i think it was, to split his head open with an axe (as you do)

And Pallas Athene popped out in full ceremonial wargear, yelling warcries at the top of her lungs.

Hell of a baby shower.

Yeah, I know that when my head is hurting, nothing beats an axe to the noggin.

Tsukiyumi wrote:

Jabber Swarky wrote:

mwhittington wrote: You know your the King of the Gods when you squeeze a zit and it comes to life!

Actually, he had a headache, and so asked Hephaestus, i think it was, to split his head open with an axe (as you do)

And Pallas Athene popped out in full ceremonial wargear, yelling warcries at the top of her lungs.

Hell of a baby shower.

Yeah, I know that when my head is hurting, nothing beats an axe to the noggin.

Actually, way back in the day, when they had a headache, they did drill holes into the skull to allow the "evil spirits" to escape.

It was called "trepanning:"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanation

I think I'll stick to my Tylenol 3, thank you.

And the trepanning patients survived...

One particular skull had three holes...

Gotta wonder did they just get lucky,
or know what they were doing.

N'tran

N'tran DS 12 wrote:And the trepanning patients survived...

One particular skull had three holes...

Gotta wonder did they just get lucky,
or know what they were doing.

N'tran

You can remove a fairly large portion of the brain without killing someone, they were doing labotomnies for years before people really understood how the brain worked. Frag if we want to get really stupid: Terry Schvio (sp?) had virtually no brain and she was still (technically) alive.

Hell, they were doing through-the-skull lobotomies to the dead center of the frontal lobe. I guess using so little of our brains is a human survival mechanism?