On Tue, 25 Aug 1998 18:47:17 +0100, Dr I Cox wrote:
>But what is the one you have to pee over as in 'Friends' recently? that
>would get peoples attention in a quality paper....'Would you pee on your
>wife?'
Sea urchin needles!
Before I knew this, I spent several fruitless and frustrating hours
trying to pull the damn things out with tweesers, properly like!
The thing about the wife is that the acidity of a certain part of the
female anatomy can do the same to sea urchin needles, so that you can
use that route for suitable parts of your anatomy that are covered in
sea urchin blighters.
Having just come back from the Red Sea, the real killer in some parts
is the stone fish. Step on one and you're dead in 20 minutes!
If you come across a case, immerse foot in very hot water immediately
and transfer to a *good* unit stat. But high mortality rate though.
Seen one in my time.
Other poisonous fish can kill very quickly too. The golden rules:
don't touch anything and don't stand on anything, if you do, make sure
it's sand. It is good for protecting the coral reefs too :-)
Ahmad
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