the rise and fall of a trouser snake
the symbol of medicine is the Rod of Asclepius, a single snake twined around a staff. many people mistakenly think it is the Caduceus which is a winged staff with two snakes. you can blame a Captain Reynolds for this, it was his idea for the United States Army to adopt it back in 1902. the blunder was discovered several years later but no matter…..
I bring this up because the Caduceus is linked to Tiresias who found two snakes copulating and attempted to separate them with his staff. Tiresias was immediately turned into a woman, and so remained until he was able to reverse the act seven years later. coincidentally, our resident transgendered patient Duc, has been living as a woman for seven years now and nursemyra is keeping a very close watch on her since a packet of Allen’s Jelly Snakes was discovered abandoned in the gimcrack’s driveway.
they were partially melted in the heat. I couldn’t say for sure there was any copulating going on but they were very difficult to separate.
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AAGGGHHHHHHHHHH
Mancans!
…one thing my grandmother taught me before she died was never to try and disentangle a pair of rutting sexually confused serpents…
i’m confused! *wondering*
wow Pen my grandmother’s advice to me was never to trust a man whose eyebrows met in the middle and wore brown shoes…….. I guess, however, it would have extended to the halfy/halfy above though too had she seen this site
NM as ever an education
talking about grandmother’s advice….. mine told me never to marry a chinaman (her word not mine), a travelling saleman or anyone by the name of Bruce…..
My grandmother never gave advice. She just cursed at everyone. This is why I knew how call someone a horse’s ass before I could spell my own name.
NM ~ the name thing must be a tricky one to stick to coming from Oz????
That’s a hermaphrodite? hmmm. Okay.
Thomas
Leave it up to us Americans to screw things up royally. Those are some gruesome images by the way.
Moobs.
~m
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Many a night has been spent wrestling with my own mighty python.
It is often prone to spitting, as well.
pass the smelling salts lord likely. talk of your mighty python is making me faint
(oops… I accidently typed monty python…. it’s ok I fixed it)
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