Hi,
>> Nearly two days of bizarre neurological effects was no fun at all.
>
> This almost begs the question "care to elaborate" ???
Indeed, I was wondering what happened as well... Did the venom cause some
sort of hallucinatic (sp?) effects, or were you talking about other
neurological effects?
> I know of some older japanese people, who intoxicate themself from eating
> fugu liver (fugu goes, I think, by the name "pufferfish" or "blowfish in
> the english language? - one fish has enough poison to kill several tenths
> of people) and then slip into some state of semi-paralysis for a couple of
> days. Since it should be a fairly pleasent experience, the people
> praticing this kind of "death-play" are always rather disappointed when
> the effects start to wear off.
Heh, that sounds rather extreme! I believe there's also a kind of fish (I
think it may be the pufferfish as well, even) for which it depends very much
upon how well it's cooked: if cooked properly it's not poisonous and
apparently quite delicious at that, if OTOH, not cooked properly, it can be
a "killer-recipe" in the more literal sense of the word :0 Perhaps this is
an urban legend though.
> Currently, I think, this is forbidden by law. However I do know that it is
> still being praticed in some communities, although what I know of it is
> among the senior citizens.
Wasn't this also the trick I saw once in a James Bond movie and in Miami
Vice? I believe in both it was used by voodoo priests to simulate death and
get people to believe that the person in question was a zombie. I wonder if
such a thing has also actually happened in real life, out of Hollywood...
> I guess, Scott, that you could start a similar cult for black widdow
bites? :)
Doesn't sound like a "nice experience" as, accordimg to your sources, the
pufferfish experience ought to be :) Hmmmmm, perhaps if one is into
masochism :0 In that case, I hear a centipede bite comes highly recommended
as well, on Discovery I once heard that adult males put their arm in boiling
water to kill the pain of a centipede bite. Again: not _my_ picknick!!! :0
Cheers!
Olafo
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