I'm not making this up ...

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actually, "human blockhead" is a generic term to describe that circus act, much like "fire eater" or "sword-swallower", and they pretend to hammer nails up their noses, not into their skulls. Is this obit for a particularly notable one? I looked in the PBPOST and couldn't find it.

I actually know a human blockhead. Not only does she also do bed of nails and lightbulb eating, she's also quite a hot chick. And what guy wouldn't want a girl who can eat a lightbulb?

He was apparently one of the greats. I found this story out of Tampa.

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actually, "human blockhead" is a generic term to describe that circus act, much like "fire eater" or "sword-swallower", and they pretend to hammer nails up their noses, not into their skulls. Is this obit for a particularly notable one? I looked in the PBPOST and couldn't find it.

I actually know a human blockhead. Not only does she also do bed of nails and lightbulb eating, she's also quite a hot chick. And what guy wouldn't want a girl who can eat a lightbulb?

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pttth...
bed of nails
any physicist can do that!
i want to see him lie on a bed of nail
i mean
if a bed of nails is survivable, surely he can lie on a bed of nail no problem
where's your death defying hero now?
not lying on a bed of nail, i can assure you!

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I actually know a human blockhead. Not only does she also do bed of nails and lightbulb eating, she's also quite a hot chick. And what guy wouldn't want a girl who can eat a lightbulb?

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Ever heard of Erik Sprague (aka Lizard Man, Snake Boy, Amago, etc)? He's been on TV a number of times. He has extensive tattooing of scales on his body and face, has his tongue split, has his teeth filed to points, has implants to create reptile-like brow ridges, etc. He was with the Jim Rose circus for a while, and does a bunch of that crap.

I know him, have been bitten by him hard enough to leave a mark for a year (though he didn't break the top layer of skin), and was taught how to lie on a bed of nails by him.

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"He's surgically turned himself into as much as a lizard as possible by chopping a gap in his tongue, inserting spikes in his face, and coloring on himself. He's not really talented, useful, or successful, but he knew if he turned himself into a big enough lizard freak, it could be his full-time job. Is it trading your self-respect for money? Maybe. All I know is that you never hear about these people having other accomplishments. It's never 'Next on Conan: pulitzer-prize winner and dinosaur-man...' or 'Today in Atlanta, a local half-man, half-puzzle, ALL-mystery microbiologist discovered a new strain of bacteria that may help slushees maintain their slush outside of freezing temperatures.'" --Seanbaby

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He must have a helluva speech impediment...

Not a joke - he has a chunk the size of a postage stamp missing from the end of his tongue. It must have taken him long enough to learn to talk at all again after the healing was done, let along talk without a significant impediment.

I know several people with split tongues. For the most part, once the healing is done and they practice a bit, they reduce their impediments to almost nothing. Erik can move the halves of his tongue independently and cross them and do tricks and stuff.

I used to have an 8 gauge piece of steel in my mouth. I spoke without impediment until the weight from the jewelry caused the hole to gradually stretch a bit, making the jewelry more jiggly. Still, the impediment was only detectable to myself, and only when I tried to trill my R's.

The people you meet who let their tongue mods interfere with their speech are, for the most part, the uninformed. After the initial swelling goes down following a piercing, the jewelry is supposed to be switched out for shorter jewelry that fits the mouth better. Most people don't do this, either because they were pierced by bad piercers who didn't give proper aftercare instructions, or because they want to save money (which they won't in the long run because they're more likely to break a tooth on a longer barbell), or because they didn't pay attention to the aftercare instructions and don't listen to their bodies and are angry at the world and blah blah blah.

The modded people with whom I have associated for the past 3 or 4 years are better informed and more responsible. We understand the risks and how to minimize them.

I had to abandon one of my cool ear project pieces. I had one piece of jewelry as an orbital in my lower earlobe. I've had it for several years. It started getting grumpy and the ring was migrating through the lobe a bit, so I put two separate pieces of jewelry in it. It's happier now. It bums me out because it looked pretty sweet, but faced with the possibility of having a scar on my ear, I opted not to force my body to continue to put up with what it decided it did not want to accept. That's the difference between me and my friends, and the people with modification-induced speech impediments.

I rambled quite a bit, didn't I?

Just don't get me started on the superiority of needle piercings to piercing gun piercings.

"Lizard Man", eh? Let's poke him with a stick:

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I'm so totally sending him the url to that comic.

There's a guy of 70-ish in the Hebrides or somewhere who's been turned into a Tiger Man in the same way as Lizard Man. He lives in caves and doesn't wear clothes.

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There's a guy of 70-ish in the Hebrides or somewhere who's been turned into a Tiger Man in the same way as Lizard Man. He lives in caves and doesn't wear clothes.

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