i remember watching videos on parasites, which i think included all of the above, in a biology class...

some guy ate a cyst or something similar from raw cows flesh and grew a tape worm (or some other sort of worm)... i think he had some mental problems, but it was actually, while disgusting, fairly interesting...

there was one part where the worm crawled about an inch or two out of a cut on his arm...

and I've lost my appetite just thinking about it again.

“A woodchuck could chuck no amount of wood since a woodchuck can’t chuck wood.”

heh. monkey island.

well keratins the protein found in hair. looks like his body just produces way too much of it.

i agree with the crocodile hunter remark, being an Australian myself, and the devastation that incident caused it is much too soon to even attempt to make his death out to be some sort of amusement.

anyway in relation to the Rasputin death, yes he was poisoned, shot mulitple times, bashed by russian government officials, but he survived all of that.
It was when they threw him into the icy river that he died, due to the surface of the river freezing over while he was attempting to resurface.

He was a creepy perverted man anyway. Studying him and having to look at his portrait was scary enough.