Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG> Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH>> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG>>> Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH>>>> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG>>>>> Ed Hulett -> Ross Sauer wrote:

 RS>>>>>>> US congressmen and
 RS>>>>>>> women that are either psychotic or simply
rotten, a candidate for
 EH>>>>>> governor
 RS>>>>>>> claims to be the only true conservative,
and admitted having sex
 EH>>>>>> with a
 RS>>>>>>> mule, a university that let a felon who
should be in jail right
 EH>> now
 EH>>>>>> get a
 RS>>>>>>> degree, hey, what's not to like?

 EH>>>>>> What do you care? You don't live there. Your
only interest in
 MG>>>>> Georgia is
 EH>>>>>> to try to attack Stan by associating him with
all that is bad
 MG> about
 MG>>>>> the
 EH>>>>>> state. That is not only a childish behavior, it
is also bizarre.
 MG>>>>>                               ^^^^^^^^

 MG>>>>> You spelled psychotic incorrectly.  :)

 EH>>>> I can think of a few more adjective too. :-)

 MG>>> I'm sure you can. :)  That's because, unlike Otto, you *CAN* think!

 EH>> There are times when I wonder if Otto has more than a brain stem.

 EH>> I read about a guy in France who went to the doctor because of
 MG> weakness
 EH>> in his limbs. They did a CT scan and MRI and found that he only had a
 EH>> small part of his brain that remained. When he was an infant, he had a
 EH>> shunt in his brain to drain the build up of fluid. The shunt was
 MG> removed
 EH>> later in his childhood and the fluid started displacing his brain.

 EH>> They did an IQ test on him after the MRI and found he had the IQ of 75
 EH>> -- well below the 100 average, but above that of those deemed mentally
 EH>> retarded.

 EH>> When I read the story, I thought of Otto.

 MG> I can understand why he jumped into your thoughts with that description.

Precisely.

 MG> A girl friend of mine gave birth a couple of weeks before Ariel was born
 MG> (I met this lady during La Maze classes). The baby was born with what
 MG> laymen (you and I) call "water on the brain", the medical
term is hydro
 MG> encephalitis (sp?). The doctors put a shunt in the baby's head and
 MG> drained off the fluid, the baby stabilized enough for the hospital to
 MG> release her. Unfortunately she didn't live even 6 months.

Yep, the same thing the French guy had, only he is still alive after 30
years if I remember correctly. The story about him was in one of those odd
news websites. The story title was "The Man With The Tiny Brain."

Ed

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