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Why shrimp? You might as well start with something that breathes air and likes to live on our body in the first place. |
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Like dust mites, or head lice. |
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Having crawlies would take getting used to, though. |
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I remember a haunting short story (but not its name or author) about a man who one day receives a kind of "miracle slug" that lives off hairs and dead epidermal cells. The slug crawls across his body, always looking for new places to eat; the sensation is quit pleasant, like slowly being licked clean by a big, raspy tongue. The man becomes emotionally dependent on the slug; his social life deteriorates. When he finally goes out and meets someone, the accidental encounter between his new girl friend and his slug ends in a catastrophe. |
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Shrimp seem to be about the right size to begin with, and have many of the proper "tools" built in or easily modified (it's a simple matter of genetic programming...). Many species already pick dead organic matter out of rocky crevices, sort of like your mouth after a meal, and some arthropod species (like crabs) already spend time out of the water. However, crabs are the wrong shape. I envision the little shrimps sleeping or resting adorably curled up behind your ear, out of the way, yet close enough to take care of bidness. |
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If other animals get birds, I don't want some creepy crawly. Trained parrotts would be good for this, especially if we all dressed up as pirates. It would look entirely natural. |
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Actually, you have a number of cleaner parasites on you at this time. There are quite a few residing in your eyebrows. Miniscule little buggers. I don't have any, though. I'm special. |
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You're supposed to *eat* the yogurt? |
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Actaully, I had a pet parakeet that did just that, with no genetic engineering or training (that I know of). It would like salt off my skin if I had just been excersising, walk around on my head and search for tidbts, and so forth. Maybe if you had a whole fllock of parakeets it would havea really useful impact |
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Actaully, I had a pet parakeet that did just that, with no genetic engineering or training (that I know of). It would lick salt off my skin if I had just been excersising, walk around on my head and search for tidbts, and so forth. Maybe if you had a whole fllock of parakeets it would havea really useful impact. Or they would eat you, wither way. |
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*hrruuk!* Una! Did you /have/ to say that, about the maw worm?! Good grief! (..is there a way to unread?..) |
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not to be anal, but I'll be anal. Monkeys != gorillas != chimps. (neither gorillas nor chimps are monkeys; they are both different types of apes...just like us). OK, too much class for me... |
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Thanks for the links UB. I've got some wire wool and a bottle of disinfectant and I'm off to give myself a good scrub down right now. |
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Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's....eeeew... |
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For all practical purposes, I'd stick to theLesser Apes-- the lemurs of Madagascar.
/Fun Syntax Fact-oid: Upon the first typing of the above, I recommended 'the lepers of madagascar.'
Nothin' against lepers, you see... But huuzbugh.... |
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