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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of the country.
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1814
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...because he'll find some way to work wing nuts and lag bolts into it...
This years winner of the Annals of Improbably Reasearch Ig
Noble Prize for Managed Health Care deserves some special
attention. US Patent #3,216,423, entitled "APPARATUS FOR
FACILITATING THE BIRTH OF A CHILD BY CENTRIGUGAL FORCE" may
be one of the scariest things I have ever seen in all my
years of reporting for Pigdog Journal.
And if the image doesn't get ya, the text description will. And it's not just
the fact that no one really ever wants to see the words "vagina" and "radial
centrifugal force" in the same sentence. There is also a lovley little
introductory explanation as to why "more civilized women" need to be strapped
into this monstrosity (with wingnuts and screws!) to do something that "more
primitive people" have been doing just fine on their own for the last several
thousand years.
Check it out yourself
mustard@pigdog.org
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