The Realm Of Bizarre News 6: Eating Hair
This week’s installment of everyone’s favorite doctor does not start with a phobia.
Mixing it up a little, are we, Dr. Ruehl? And what could possibly be in that little black bag of his?
Well, clearly there’s only one way to find out. Watch the video! It’s a heck of a lot better than a slap in the belly with a wet trout.
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The Trivia Question
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Welcome once again ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls to the realm of bizarre news. I'm your host Dr. Franklin Rule,
First a trivia question I'm about to extricate here from this paper prison.
The question: What is the technical term for eating hair?
Is that xylophagia, trichophagia, halophagia or foliophagia?
Now the prize, the only prize for the correct answer - one pat on the back that you'll have to administer to yourself. Heck of a lot better than a slap on the belly with a wet trunk.
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The Black Bag OF Mystery
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Now, let's see what's in the little black bag today. We have a rat, a comb, a scalpel and some shoe laces.
Now, this all pertains first of all to a girl back in New England, aged 18. Since the age of ten, she's been ingesting her own hair and developed this massive hairball the size of a rat. It blocked her tummy, so she could hardly eat, she lost 40 pounds, and it had to be surgically removed.
By the way, those masses in the stomach are called bezoars. B-E-Z-O-A-R for any of you taking notes.
Now, and odder bezoar may have been that of a mental patient who swallowed 290 shoe laces. They ranged from his oesophagus down to his small intestine, also had to be surgically removed.
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The Trivia Answer
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Now, back to the trivia question, let's see what the possible answers are:
xylophagia, trichophagia, halophagia, or foliophagia.
Is that your final answer - xylophagia?
No, it's trichophagia.
And for the record, xylophagia is eating wood
halophagia, salt
and foliophagia tea leaves.
Just in case you're ever on that millionaire show.
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The Skeleton
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Here's a skeleton. This pertains to a burglar in Berlin who entered a home and found the owner dead in bed in his bedroom.
He'd been dead for two weeks, and he was so scared, so terrified, that he called the police - he did flee.
But you know what - that man needs to get himself some guts. I don't care if he grows them in a garden, makes them in a lab, or buys them in a swap meet. He needs guts - you know why? It isn't the dead in this world that bother you, it's the living - the LIVING that give you trouble.
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The Vault Of Strange Deaths - Woof I'm Sorry
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Now let's open the vault of strange deaths. Let's see what we have.
First of all: "Woof, I'm sorry." This pertains to a hunter down in Seoul, Texas, he just shot a goose, put the goose and the shotgun in the back of his pickup truck where his loyal Labrador retriever was.
But somehow, the dog set off the shotgun, the bullet went through the tailgate, and killed the hunter! Bad doggy! Bad doggy!
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The Vault Of Strange Deaths - Fun But Deadly
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Look at one more here, it says "Fun But Deadly."
Recently a man at the Kodak Centre in Hollywood was sliding down the railing of the escalator and fell off, hit his head, and was killed.
I've tried it myself, it's a lot of fun sliding down the escalator railing, but please, please, do not try it. I'm not going to do it anymore, and ask that you don't. We can't afford to lose even one of you out there. Thank you.
Now, until next time, may the power of the cosmos be with you. Yes! Yes! Yes!