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- From: ra@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Starcap'n Ra)
- Subject: Starcap'n Ra's piercing
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.005945.5657@asuvax.eas.asu.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:59:45 GMT
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- Well, one good piercing story deserves another.
-
- Back in '74 or so, long before it was cool to
- have an earring, one of my friends had one and
- another decided it sounded like a cool idea. So
- four or five of us had a piercing party for him.
-
- The plan was for him to drink Scotch to the
- point where he couldn't feel any pain, then hold
- an ice cube to his earlobe for five minutes, then
- pierce it.
-
- We all proceeded to get drunk as hell, and
- after awhile it came time for the magic moment.
- The piercee at that point began to hem and haw,
- at which point I in my best drunken bravado said,
- "Well hell, do me instead!"
-
- So, I held an icecube to *my* earlobe for
- five minutes, and my experienced friend who already
- had an earring grabbed a big needle, selected
- a spot as near to where an earring should go as
- he could considering his drunken state (which
- turned out to be not very near), and poked the
- needle through.
-
- I proceeded to bleed like a stuck pig. My
- friend said, "Wow, I've never seen anyone bleed
- like *that* before."
-
- He then put in a gold stud which I wore for
- a year or two whenever I felt in the mood to get
- called a faggot. Eventually I got bored with it
- to the point where I wore it too infrequently
- and the hole closed up.
-
- Quite a few years later earrings came into
- vogue, but it was too late for me.
-
- --Starcap'n Ra {ames,gatech,husc6,rutgers}!ncar!noao!asuvax!kennedy
- {allegra,decvax,ihnp4,oddjob}--^
- ^---------------The Wrong Choice
- internet: kennedy@asuvax.asu.edu
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