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Stretch Body Bits

Tiffany — Fri, 06 May 2011 14:22:20 +0000

Life can be stressful when you are the type of person who is always lending a ear, hand, nose or foot. Are you looking for a way to put the play back in your day? With the Stretch Body Bits from the NeatoShop stretching yourself thin just became more fun.

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Pearl Removed from Ear -41 Years Later

Miss Cellania — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:19:50 +0000

Calvin Wright of Athens, Georgia went to a hospital for bronchitis and received a thorough examination. A nurse found something stuck in his ear. It was removed and found to be a pearl that Wright didn’t know was there!

The pearl got stuck in his right ear when Wright was 5 and roughhousing with his sister, Regina. The family lived in Chicago at the time.

“She had broken my mother’s pearl necklace,” Wright said. “I can remember (our baby sitter) picking them up off the floor – except for two, of course.”

Regina stuck those two missing pearls – either by accident or because kids do weird things – into her older brother’s ear.

A doctor retrieved one of the pearls from the child’s ear, but missed the other. Wright has undergone ear exams in the years since, but the pearl was never discovered until the nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital found it. Link -via Arbroath

(Image credit: Merritt Melancon)

Van Gogh’s Disappearing Ear Mug

Alex — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:40:09 +0000

Here’s a clever use of thermochromatic ink (the kind of ink that changes color with heat): pour hot coffee into this mug, and watch Van Gogh’s ear disappear!

From the NeatoShop: Disappearing Van Gogh’s Ear Mug | More "disappearing" mugs

Did Gauguin Slash Off Vincent van Gogh’s Ear?

Alex — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:47:25 +0000

Legend has it that Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear after a falling out with Paul Gauguin. But a new study by German art historians Hans Kaufmann and Rita Wildegans claimed that it was actually the result of Gauguin’s sword attack – not van Gogh’s self-mutilation:

Gauguin, an excellent fencer, was planning to leave Van Gogh’s "Yellow House" in Arles, southwestern France, after an unhappy stay.

He had walked out of the house with his baggage and his trusty épée in hand, but was followed by the troubled Van Gogh, who had earlier thrown a glass at him.

As the pair approached a bordello, their row intensified, and Gauguin cut off Van Gogh’s left earlobe with his sword – either in anger or self-defence.

He then threw the weapon in the Rhône. Van Gogh delivered the ear to the prostitute and staggered home, where police discovered him the following day, the new account claims.

Gauguin had undoubtedly been staying with Van Gogh, but most experts think he had disappeared before the ear incident.

Although the historians provide no "smoking gun" to back up their claims, they argue theirs is the most logical interpretation, and explains why in his final recorded words to Gauguin, Van Gogh writes: "You are quiet, I will be, too".

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