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Pomonarona
12/03/08

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I had a green pepper like this when I made dinner tonight. I cut open the pepper, and there was another little pepper inside. How does that happen? Any botanistas out there?
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BluebellaElliot
12/03/08

@Pomonarona: This happens to me all the time and I can't bring myself to eat the little baby pepper.
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Mayonegg
12/03/08

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"Children having children; its like some crazy russian doll situation; how small are they going to get?"

- flight of the conchords
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AuntieEm (robots from the year 2000 > zombies)
12/03/08

@Vaginaisnotadirtyword: MUAHAHAHA!! God I love them
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lucystrawberry: Tier 2 is the new black
12/03/08

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Wow, I totes just threw up. Damn Jezebel, I wish you had warned me--if I knew a purge was in the cards I would have had a doughnut for breakfast instead of yogurt!
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Raspberry Swirly
12/03/08

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Sensationalism should be done away with. This baby is not pregnant and I'd like to have not momentarily panicked at the thought.
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Cafezinha
12/03/08

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My daughters are identical twins, and the thought of something like this actually happening kept me awake A LOT when I was pregnant. Jesus.
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MeganGlass 就是一个古代的三明治
12/03/08

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It's 7 in the AM and already the surreal is kickin' in.
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Blitzgal
12/03/08

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So that means that the Indian man I once saw on one of those dreadful "100 Weirdest Things Found in the Human Body" shows was also pregnant? I mean, his absorbed twin was in his stomach area and somehow started growing again when he was in his thirties, causing his abdomen to grow dangerously distended.

As others have noted, this is not a pregnancy. The article states that the twin was "not viable" which I assume means s/he is dead. Will they say she had a stillborn birth when they remove it from her? Ridiculous media.
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Brigit
12/03/08

@Blitzgal: It's not "dead" dead, it's just not a human, more like a tumor with different tissue types.
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aubonpam
12/03/08

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Yeah they should not be calling her "pregnant."
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gherkinfiend
12/03/08

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Don't know what happened to my comment to make it glow red...
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tscheese
12/03/08

@gherkinfiend: You might have taken the final </a> off of the little link that shows up in the comment box whenever you reply to someone. It does make the page a bit more festive, doesn't it? And it's way easier than absorbing a twin.

Last time I absorbed one of my tscheese clones, it took me like three days and the damn clone wouldn't stop whining about it.
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ElleL
12/03/08

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I am so not awake enough to wrap my mind around this. But I hope they are able to remove it with little effect on the little girl.
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LaComtesse
12/03/08

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So MY question is (and will hopefully be answered by the interwebz shortly) how does the twin find the UTERUS and how does it get in there? Like, okay, I guess I could see being absorbed or fused or something, but to be IN the UTERUS? You gotta find your way there.

That's one super smart fetus, like, raptor smart. Give the fetus enough time and it will learn how to perform the surgery to get herself out of there without harming her sister.
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Brigit
12/03/08

@LaComtesse: Here's what I've read: Imagine you have the two embryos in a single placenta going from a morula to a blastocyst stage and as they are rounding up into the hollow-ball look, one of the embryos envelops the other. Well they keep growing, but the embryo inside the other one doesn't have an environment suitable for normal growth, so it becomes something very similar to a teratoma while the other one keeps growing in a suitable environment.

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WaltzingMatilda
12/03/08

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This is that "ridiculous 'Russian doll' scenario" that the Flight of the Concords referenced, right?
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WaltzingMatilda
12/03/08

@WaltzingMatilda...same McCain, less filling!: BTW - for the record - this is freaking me out. I cringe at the part in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" when the aunt talks about her tumor. Gah.
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AuntieEm (robots from the year 2000 > zombies)
12/03/08

@WaltzingMatilda...same McCain, less filling!: FOTC!!! LOL
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dirtybee
12/03/08

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Wow.....way to start my morning. No coffee needed.
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Brigit
12/03/08

@dirtybee says we bee obama jammin: seriously. My blood pressure rose immediately after the headline. *phew* I'm glad it's just fetus in fetu.
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dirtybee
12/03/08

@Brigit: I don't know what to feel - I'm fascinated by what I read about fetus in fetu, yet a little scared too.
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minky_x
12/03/08

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And they say this sort of thing only happens in West Virginia.
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dancerevolution
12/03/08

@minky_x:

As someone who is from West Virginia, I cannot tell you how much I enjoy a good incest/inbred joke about West Virginians. Really, they never get old. EVER. Keep 'em coming.
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pantsless economist...access RESTORED
12/03/08

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When my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered, that I had resorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No, I believe his tissue has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby.
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morninggloria
12/03/08

@pantsless economist: Well played.
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ElleL
12/03/08

@pantsless economist: Shrute FTW!
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Brigit
12/03/08

@pantsless economist: Wouldn't it be cool if you were a chimeric person and somewhere in your tissue there are cells with a whole 'nother set of instructions?
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ucelluccia
12/03/08

@pantsless economist: I Love You, Dwight Schrute! The one where he gives the Mussolini speech at the awards ceremony was on last night. *beam*
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lalaland13
12/03/08

@ucelluccia: TBS, right? I saw that as well. Well, some of it. I had to mute it when I was talking to my mom, because I can't talk to my mom and watch The Office at the same time. I'll get hypnotized by Jim Halpert.
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