The most weird or stupid news story you heard today.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by exlurker

A Warm and Welcoming Home

A little weird, but who isn't? --

"The girls are thrilled to have a sister -- and they know that she was conceived at the same time that they were, but has been in the freezer" . . . .

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/eleven-...ry?id=12492208

This sounds out there and made up, but I recently found out that I was one of the first test tube babies. As of 1980 (according to a couple articles I've read about IVF), there were 9 successful IVF babies. I was born in January 1983, so it stands to reason that there couldn't have been too many IVFs between myself and the original 9 the articles I've read cited.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by exlurker

A Warm and Welcoming Home

A little weird, but who isn't? --

"The girls are thrilled to have a sister -- and they know that she was conceived at the same time that they were, but has been in the freezer" . . . .

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/eleven-...ry?id=12492208

Originally Posted by nittanygirl

Strange to think about, though if it works for them then all the better. I'm happy for them to have had the chance to have children at all.
But still weird that they have an identical sister 11 years younger than them.
And what if they decide to donate the other 11 eggs? Are there going to be more of them out there that are technically "quadruplets" or more? Very interesting.

They're not triplets, they're a set of fraternal twins and a sibling. Identical twins/triplets/other multiples come from the same original zygote (it splits). Fraternal multiples come from two or more different zygotes and share the womb with one another.

Since the third didn't share the womb with the first two, she's a single. Saying they're triplets would be like saying my older brother and I are fraternal twins.

[nittanygirl]

Originally Posted by agzg

They're not triplets, they're a set of fraternal twins and a sibling. Identical twins/triplets/other multiples come from the same original zygote (it splits). Fraternal multiples come from two or more different zygotes and share the womb with one another.

Since the third didn't share the womb with the first two, she's a single. Saying they're triplets would be like saying my older brother and I are fraternal twins.

ohhh that makes more sense now that I reread it. First I was like, they created that many embryo's with the same genetic-makeup on purpose? *doh* on my part. lol

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

This sounds out there and made up, but I recently found out that I was one of the first test tube babies. As of 1980 (according to a couple articles I've read about IVF), there were 9 successful IVF babies. I was born in January 1983, so it stands to reason that there couldn't have been too many IVFs between myself and the original 9 the articles I've read cited.

Very cool.

The most interesting thing about my birth is that I was an accident. Maybe I'll start telling this story instead.....

[DSTRen13]

Okay, not a news story per se, but definitely weird -

http://www.grist.org/article/food-20...e-human-cheese

Eugh ...

[DaemonSeid]

Eugh is right. Something is not safe about this.

[knight_shadow]

I didn't even try to read that article when I saw a toilet in the human cheese life cycle.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

I didn't even try to read that article when I saw a toilet in the human cheese life cycle.

I don't even understand most of that cycle minus the pumping, cheesemaking, and toilet. LOL. I'm like "oh haaaaaaaaaay - when you eat you poo!"

Aside from that, I don't think there would necessarily be anything more or less safe about it than other types of cheese (especially those that are not pasteurized), but it strikes me as wrong on some level.

It'd be like cows eating dairy cheese, or goats eating goat cheese. Although I'm now realizing it's a little "wrong" for people to drink goat milk or cow milk because it's supposed to be for their babies. Do adult bovine creatures also drink cow milk if they have to?

[DSTRen13]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

I didn't even try to read that article when I saw a toilet in the human cheese life cycle.

The toilet is in the life cycle of pretty much anything we eat - we eat, we digest, it goes down the toilet, then it's in our water supply which in turn gets it back into our plants and the animals that become our meat & dairy.

[knight_shadow]

OK. I thought the cheese was scraped from the bowl or something.

*goes back to work*

[DaemonSeid]

Man killed by cock.

[knight_shadow]

Madoff to NY magazine: Government a Ponzi scheme

NEW YORK – Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff said in a magazine interview published Sunday that new regulatory reform enacted after the recent national financial crisis is laughable and that the federal government is a Ponzi scheme.

"The whole new regulatory reform is a joke," Madoff said during a telephone interview with New York magazine in which he discussed his disdain for the financial industry and for its regulators.

The interview was published on the magazine's website Sunday night.

Madoff did an earlier New York Times interview in which he accused banks and hedge funds of being "complicit" in his Ponzi scheme to fleece people out of billions of dollars. He said they failed to scrutinize the discrepancies between his regulatory filings and other information.

He said in the New York magazine interview the Securities and Exchange Commission "looks terrible in this thing," and he said the "whole government is a Ponzi scheme."

link

[FHwku]

Gadhafi denies Libyans oppose him

(CNN) -- Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi appeared Monday either to not know that demonstrators in cities throughout Libya are calling for an end to his rule or not accept it, according to excerpts from the interview, which a U.S. official described as "delusional."

"No demonstration at all in the streets," he told ABC News and the BBC in a joint interview carried out at a restaurant in Tripoli, excerpts of which were posted on the BBC's website.

Told by the BBC's Jeremy Bowen that he had seen demonstrators in the streets that morning, Gadhafi asked, "Are they supporting us?"

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/af...afi.interview/

weird

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by agzg

It'd be like cows eating dairy cheese, or goats eating goat cheese. Although I'm now realizing it's a little "wrong" for people to drink goat milk or cow milk because it's supposed to be for their babies. Do adult bovine creatures also drink cow milk if they have to?

I just saw this comment, and all I can think of is the 'Friends' episode when everyone's tasting Carol's breast milk..

[aephi alum]

Southern Decadence protest leader booked with masturbating at Metairie park

Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone.