Comments on: Pregnant Boy

Pregnant Boy

xmutex — Thu, 01 May 2003 14:30:35 -0800

Boy pregnant with little brother. Well, sort of.

By: The Jesse Helms

The Jesse Helms — Thu, 01 May 2003 14:40:34 -0800

If it weren't true it would make for an excellent, literary short story.

By: Riptor

Riptor — Thu, 01 May 2003 14:47:05 -0800

Anyone ever seen the X-Files episode "Humbug"?

By: ptermit

ptermit — Thu, 01 May 2003 14:54:31 -0800

It sounds like the BBC story = teratoma + hype.

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Thu, 01 May 2003 14:56:19 -0800

it's actually happens a lot more than you think. in fact, it even happened to me, except that instead of my little brother, I was impregnated with a copy of hot slots.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Thu, 01 May 2003 14:56:53 -0800

Photos.

By: somnambulation

somnambulation — Thu, 01 May 2003 14:57:32 -0800

Mmmm.. Undead hairy paristic twin.

By: pjgulliver

pjgulliver — Thu, 01 May 2003 14:59:07 -0800

That totally feaks me out.

By: ascullion

ascullion — Thu, 01 May 2003 15:02:19 -0800

Saw this yesterday - just two weeks ago, I told my girlfriend this happened sometimes, and she said I was lying.. Anyway, didn't Stephen King write a story about this.. I think it was the Dead Zone, but you only find out about it at the end of the novel.. so if anyone was planning to read it, I apologise

By: syscom

syscom — Thu, 01 May 2003 15:18:39 -0800

Ah ... for seven years it was alive? Could you imagine that kind of life?

By: y0bhgu0d

y0bhgu0d — Thu, 01 May 2003 15:22:53 -0800

it wasnt alive syscom...

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Thu, 01 May 2003 15:22:58 -0800

Doctors believe the two foetuses should have developed into conjoined twins. umm...should have?

By: xyzzy

xyzzy — Thu, 01 May 2003 15:24:25 -0800

There is a short story on this subject by Margaret Atwood. The story, called Hairball, can be found in Wilderness Tips.

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Thu, 01 May 2003 15:25:52 -0800

I've heard of getting in touch with your inner child, but this is taking it too far.

By: wobh

wobh — Thu, 01 May 2003 15:29:38 -0800

The Steven King novel this was in was The Dark Half and you actually find this out at the beginning (and what was wrong with the original cover art?).

By: hippugeek

hippugeek — Thu, 01 May 2003 15:31:52 -0800

This can happen externally, too. People with visible parasitic twins (especially those with "extra" limbs) used to be fairly common as sideshow workers, and advertised themselves as "The 1 1/2 Girl" and the like. There is no quirk of the biological world that creeps me out quite as much as this one.

By: bradth27

bradth27 — Thu, 01 May 2003 15:34:31 -0800

Afterwards, the normal twin decided to carry his brother around in a basket wherever he went. Ah, yes. What a sweet little film that was.

By: aaronscool

aaronscool — Thu, 01 May 2003 15:40:26 -0800

How absolutely, totally, and unequivocally creepy.

By: woil

woil — Thu, 01 May 2003 15:43:38 -0800

Technically, the brother would be the older one. As age is determined by when you exit the mother, and no matter which end of the *host* exited the mother first, the *parisite* would have exited completely before the *host* could. Creepy indeed.

By: GaelFC

GaelFC — Thu, 01 May 2003 15:52:55 -0800

"Wait a minute. Hugo's scar is on the wrong side. He couldn't have been the evil left twin. That means the evil twin is, and always has been... Bart!" and Lisa: "I believe they prefer to be called "conjoined twins". Hibbert: "And hillbillies prefer to be called sons of the soil. But it ain't gonna happen." Ah, twin humor, twice as funny as regular humor.

By: matteo

matteo — Thu, 01 May 2003 16:00:39 -0800

"Scorpio -- You're gonna die Aquarius -- You're gonna die Libra -- You're gonna die Gemini -- You're gonna die. Twice" -- Chris Rock

By: skallas

skallas — Thu, 01 May 2003 16:15:33 -0800

This comes up every so often and usually what I hear is, "This is more common than you think." So who here has a fetal tumor? Chances are some mefite does.

By: bobo123

bobo123 — Thu, 01 May 2003 16:18:35 -0800

I just finished poking around my stomach, I can't imagine anything too big being in there, but who knows.

By: ArsncHeart

ArsncHeart — Thu, 01 May 2003 16:21:29 -0800

< gratuitous comment about welcoming undead hairy parasitic foetus overloars...both of them.>

By: maniactown

maniactown — Thu, 01 May 2003 16:26:17 -0800

Anybody remember the Tales From the Crypt episide about the Ventriloquist that was really good, but it was really his freaky psycho twin brother that grew out of his arm... you know?

By: Dreama

Dreama — Thu, 01 May 2003 16:31:26 -0800

Please tell me that I'm not the only one thinking of a certain school nurse.

By: mfli

mfli — Thu, 01 May 2003 17:02:30 -0800

It's happened before. From here (scroll about midway down): 7/97 - a fetus was discovered in the abdomen of a 16 year old - Hisham Ragab of Egypt. A swollen sac found pressing against his kydney turned out to be his 7 inch long, 4lb, 6oz identical twin Was also in the Guinness Book of World Records if I recall correctly (the print version).

By: Hildago

Hildago — Thu, 01 May 2003 17:50:57 -0800

Did you hear the news about Edward?

By: jengod

jengod — Thu, 01 May 2003 17:52:21 -0800

When this kid grows up he can join the Sacrococcygeal Teratoma Baby Support Group.

By: notsnot

notsnot — Thu, 01 May 2003 18:18:07 -0800

My g/f had a lump on her eyebrow that was was not a problem until she stopped growing, at which time it kept growing. She had it removed, and they found bits of hair,oil, part of another eyeball, and a sliver of tooth.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Thu, 01 May 2003 18:44:02 -0800

Turducken

By: y2karl

y2karl — Thu, 01 May 2003 19:15:15 -0800

I can't believe the pool of hipsters present have omitted mentioning Philip K Dick's Dr. Bloodmoney or How We All Got Along After the Bomb thus far. That is the first and fountainhead for all such tales: Bonny's daughter Edie, conceived on the day of the nuclear holocaust, who talks to a twin brother of whom only she is aware --who is the savior at the penultimate moment.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Thu, 01 May 2003 19:24:09 -0800

A better exegesis--you must scroll down--from philipkdick.com, said salient section follows: The plot centers on two places in two times. Berkeley and the western part of Marin County in "future" 1981 and 1988. The great event is a nuclear war in 1981. It dominates all of the lives and smaller events shown—even an aborted encore in 1988. The questions of control and perception of the world that Dick raises revolve around four characters, two of whom are world famous, each having an impact on all humanity. The other two are claimants for such roles. The first famous person is Dr. Bruno Bluthgeld, the man who has been held responsible for a nuclear accident some years before the war that nearly destroyed the world. The second, Walt Dangerfield, has been stranded in Earth orbit, along with an incredible tape library, by the war. Bluthgeld believes he caused the war, by willing it. Dangerfield believes in nothing more than his responsibility to provide what entertainment and communications he can for the people trying to survive below, helping them build, perhaps, something more than isolated, paranoid communities like the one at Point Reyes Station. One is hated, of course (though he is not suspected of starting the war), the other loved. The two pretenders are Hoppy Harrington, a legless, armless, a 'phocomelus' with extraordinary mental powers, and Bill Keller, the "unborn" brother of Edie Keller, who appears, to a doctor's touch, merely as a benign growth in her belly. As might be expected, the fates of all four characters finally become intertwined. Harrington destroys Bluthgeld and nearly manages to kill and usurp Dangerfield. Bill, recently removed from his sister's body, engages Harrington in a psychic battle. He wins, taking Harrington's body as his prize (his own small body cannot survive in the world on its own). It was written in 1963 but it holds up still--it's quel Dickian.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Thu, 01 May 2003 20:29:48 -0800

There's also How to Get Ahead in Advertising. Good film.

By: ook

ook — Thu, 01 May 2003 20:47:59 -0800

My g/f had a lump on her eyebrow Okay, I was doing fine right up until here. Eew. Cringe. Gack. Shudder. Choke. Twitch. Vomit. I don't for an instant believe you're telling the truth, but jeeeeezus man, I don't need that sort of image in my brain...

By: y2karl

y2karl — Thu, 01 May 2003 21:04:36 -0800

Here's the l'il bugger I was talking about.

By: wdpeck

wdpeck — Thu, 01 May 2003 22:53:11 -0800

If you'd like to see *real* pictures of "anomalies" like this, I'd have to recommend Smith's Recognizable Patterns of Human Malformation. Most any med school or college library should have a copy. Great coffee table book. If you never want to have company come over [again].

By: Monk

Monk — Thu, 01 May 2003 23:51:19 -0800

I've known two people that have had hairy, toothy cysts removed so I don't imagine it's that uncommon. It's called a dermoid cyst or mature teratoma. teratoma: a type of germ cell tumor derived from pluripotent cells and made up of elements of different types of tissue from one or more of the three germ cell layers

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 02 May 2003 01:33:48 -0800

So what if you were originally meant to be one of a set of septuplets? That's a lot of extra bits sticking out.

By: kaibutsu

kaibutsu — Fri, 02 May 2003 02:37:01 -0800

Hildago: That was my least favorite song on that album when I first picked it up, but it's grown to be my favorite...

By: aeschenkarnos

aeschenkarnos — Fri, 02 May 2003 02:38:39 -0800

I suspect it is even more common than we think, but the much smaller twin gets absorbed completely into the body of the surviving fetus as it grows. Who knows. Anyway, on the subject of SF authors and twins, Robert Heinlein came up with one of the most interesting types of all, which is impossible without deliberate medical intervention: the mirror twin. Each human zygote (egg or sperm) carries half of its parent's DNA, and this happens because each such zygote is a split half of a reproductive cell. So, take two such reproductive cells, one male one female, split each so that we have four zygotes (two eggs, two sperms) and fertilize. You get two people who are brother and sister, with the same parents, but whose genetic inheritance is completely different. Although of course they have a mixture of their four grandparents' genes, so they will look somewhat alike.

By: Witty

Witty — Fri, 02 May 2003 03:55:20 -0800

...and they found bits of hair,oil, part of another eyeball, and a sliver of tooth. Probably would make a lovely canape.

By: walrus

walrus — Fri, 02 May 2003 05:03:26 -0800

Philip K Dick's Dr. Bloodmoney That's one of my faves, y2karl. I believe Dick's writing must have touched on nearly everything, in it's idiot savant way. I intend to consume all his works before I quit this coil.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Fri, 02 May 2003 08:46:27 -0800

Just watch out for those pink lazer beams!

By: Cerebus

Cerebus — Fri, 02 May 2003 10:26:03 -0800

That story just gave the heebie-jeebies; I have no idea why.

By: serafinapekkala

serafinapekkala — Tue, 06 May 2003 10:59:31 -0800

Just for the record, there's Andrea Martin as the wacky aunt in My Big Fat Greek Wedding: "Inside the lump, was my twin. [pause] Ah, spanakopita!"

By: walrus

walrus — Fri, 09 May 2003 02:31:07 -0800

Just watch out for those pink lazer beams Wow, where did you get that link? I love it. Reminds me of stuff I used to read from time to time in an aperiodically published magazine called "Watermelon" when I was at college. It was basically published by a bunch of nutters, who drew it whilst under the influence, shall we say, and used to hock copies of it out of a rucksack, at festivals or raves, to fund their fiendish habits. Excellent work if you can get it ...