1.25.2005

Sending Children To The Nurse's Office For 25,000 Years

Scientists believe they have determined that you're only as ancient as your parasites.

Apparently, lice form new species every time their host does, which makes them "excellent markers for tracing human evolutionary history." Proving that your boyfriend a couple caves over (you know, the one with that scary brow ridge) was giving you cooties long before it was ostracizing you from the lunch table.

And you thought dogs were man's best friend.

5 comments:

Julie said...

Ok. That lice picture you linked to was just plain nasty. My head was itching just looking at it. :)

deahsella said...

Yeah, that's just one part of having children I would NOT look forward to.

jku said...

Ew. I think I'm done with my dinner now.

Anonymous said...

Heh, heh!
The photoshop contest on Fark the other day was to make a sexy, racy ad campaign for an un-sexy product. There were a few for lice removal. But truth be told, lice removal sounds pretty sexy right now.

deahsella said...

Yes, no eating after that article...

Jack, I agreed with you on the sexiness of train travel. I think I'll sit out the lice removal fetish, however. How 'bout we just comb your hair instead? ;-)