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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Today in Extra Limbs

posted by on November 6 at 11:34 AM

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Exhibit A: Girl Born With 8 Limbs Undergoes Surgery

Exhibit B: Whatever the hell is going on here.

(Thanks to Paulus for the heads-up on that second and perhaps apocryphal link.)

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Ooh, something right out of a Katherine Dunn novel...

Posted by KELLY O | November 6, 2007 11:40 AM
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That arm shit just ruined my day, although the finger stuff they did is admittedly pretty rad.

Posted by Juris | November 6, 2007 11:45 AM
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I don't know what to say about that second link. Uh. Well. Do what you want. Whatevs.

Posted by Mr. Poe | November 6, 2007 11:46 AM
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Assuming that it is not a hoax, it is not suprising since piercings and tatts became passee sometime during the Clinton adminstration.

Posted by Heather | November 6, 2007 11:48 AM
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How rad to be Hindu and have a kid that looks just like a Hindu god! I'm surprised people aren't praying at their front door.

Posted by Carollani | November 6, 2007 11:49 AM
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I know bmezine has a lot of freaky shit on their site, but trading limbs with your twin just seems too farfetched to be real.

Posted by julia | November 6, 2007 11:51 AM
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I just threw up a little bit of hummus in my mouth.

Posted by Spoogie | November 6, 2007 11:57 AM
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Lakshmi is named after the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth, and some in her village in the northern state of Bihar revere her.

Posted by infrequent | November 6, 2007 12:04 PM
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I never thought an octo-kid could be so friggin' adorable.

Posted by Gloria | November 6, 2007 12:08 PM
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Re: Exhibit Two... How amazingy coincidental that it seems to have been originally posted on April 1st 1999.

Posted by Actual Size | November 6, 2007 12:18 PM
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OK, the extra arms on Vishnu kid is cute, but that whole body-mod, arm swapping thing has me so effing nauseated that I think I'm gonna puke.

Posted by el ganador | November 6, 2007 12:18 PM
12

Spider-kid, spider-kid. Does whatever a spider-kid does.

Posted by Travis | November 6, 2007 12:25 PM
13

Lakshmi is adorable.

The freaky twin shit if horrifying and I sincerely hope that they have died in a freaky Dead Ringers style suicide pact by now.

Posted by Soupytwist | November 6, 2007 12:31 PM
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Frankly, after being exposed to some of the more freakishly extreme body-mod stuff on bmezine (I totally blame my fascination for the works of Warren Ellis, the bastard), nothing surprises me anymore.

Amputating and reattaching your twin brother's limbs? Feh, almost seems tame in comparison to some of the shit you see on that site.

Posted by COMTE | November 6, 2007 12:32 PM
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If you look it up on Snopes it says the Ryan and Dave thing is a hoax.

Posted by yick | November 6, 2007 12:33 PM
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That's awesome that Peter managed to find a jacket that has sleeves for all four of his extra mutant arms.

Posted by madigan | November 6, 2007 12:42 PM
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"Time on my hands, you in my arms." Their masturbatory four-ways must be mind-(or something)-blowing.

Posted by VENUS D'ARMLESS-QUEZ | November 6, 2007 12:58 PM
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If that child had been born in a different era, a whole new religion would have been borne of her.


I'm so glad societies can explain things like this scientifically these days.

Posted by Lake | November 6, 2007 1:54 PM
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What is this? Ripley's Believe It or Not: Slog Edition? YIKES!!!!!

Posted by Amelia | November 6, 2007 3:18 PM
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That picture is from a 1978 issue of The Amazing Spider Man titled "An Amazing Amalgamation Of Arms" but the issue number doesn't jump to mind.

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