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[–]PAfrog13 56 points57 points ago

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These guys are at the Mutter museum in Philadelphia, it's a whole museum of medical WTF. I did a sketch of them on my last visit

[–]deathraygun 10 points11 points ago

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My boyfriend and I went while visiting Philly because we heard it was a whole museum of natural oddities and mishaps. Ended up being a whole museum of jar fetuses. Still got our daily dose of wtf.

[–]cannables420 5 points6 points ago

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Any pics?

[–]ratjasper 62 points63 points ago

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Took my girlfriend here for her birthday. We're both artists. Most photography is forbidden in the Museum, unfortunately. I guess that it's primarily a policy to ensure that none of the delicate specimens are damaged by repeated flash exposure. Just as Lindsay Lohan's been.

[–]cannables420 24 points25 points ago

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Classic. Nice burn

[–]mrpayne99 14 points15 points ago

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[–]johnq-pubic 3 points4 points ago

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LOL Lindsay Lohan is a delicate specimen.

[–]gardenstate 1 point2 points ago

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This is my favorite museum.

[–]KingLatifah 1 point2 points ago

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great museum

[–]joelnet 33 points34 points ago

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relevant: http://imgur.com/FUX5R (oil painting my sister gave me for a birthday present)

[–]Lillipout 3 points4 points ago

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What's the title? I'm guessing "Together Forever".

[–]joelnet 1 point2 points ago

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she never titled it. just gave it to me and said "here."

[–]spaceradish 3 points4 points ago

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I am extremely jealous of this. Your sister rules.

[–]joelnet 1 point2 points ago

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I'll let you know you guys appreciate her work.

[–]oed706 9 points10 points ago

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TIL Awesome_Oil_Painting is a girl.

[–]potentiallyoffensive 20 points21 points ago

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How long did it live?

[–]Rambis 7 points8 points ago

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sucks i have to come to almost the bottom of the comments to get something of substance.

[–]potentiallyoffensive 0 points1 point ago

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Is that sarcasm?

[–]Rambis 0 points1 point ago

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Nope.

[–]potentiallyoffensive 0 points1 point ago

o

[–]HERO-SQUAD 16 points17 points ago

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The true horror must have been for the mother delivering the baby (babies?)... Oh God.

[–]Teotwawki69 2 points3 points ago

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Well, only one head to go through the birth canal, and that is the hardest part.

[–]HERO-SQUAD 17 points18 points ago

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Yes... the squeezing the large thing through the small hole is the hardest part. Not the whole, "oh God, why did I just give birth to something terrifying" part.

[–]gl0bals0j0urner 4 points5 points ago

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For a normal infant the head is the hardest part. On this infant I'm going to presume pushing two bodies pressed together is a lot bigger and more painful than the head.

[–]burntryce 4 points5 points ago

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I'm pretty sure the hardest part is the shoulders...

[–]alice-in-canada-land 0 points1 point ago

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Not sure if you mean usually, or specifically in this case...

The head is the biggest, and most difficult to deliver, part of a baby. Once the head is out usually the baby just slips out. Shoulders can get stuck (in a worst case scenario the doctor or midwife can reach in and break a collar bone to get the baby out) but the shoulder joints can move and shift position. The head - not so much.

[–]burntryce 1 point2 points ago

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I'm going off of what I have heard from mothers, since I am not one. But I know that there are dangers of the shoulders getting stuck behind the pelvic bone even after the head is birthed. Which, in my opinion, kinds of lends itself to the shoulders being more difficult.

I wouldn't find it hard to believe that I was wrong about the shoulders being the hardest part of birth though. I'm just working off of second hand information here.

Either way, I would imagine that the difficulty with the shoulders would be dually accurate (excuse my pun) for this birth.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points ago

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I thought they'd usually cut through the woman's vagina first before hurting the baby, right?

[–]cakey138 0 points1 point ago

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But why give your baby, malformed or not, away to be put in a damn pickle jar?!

[–]cydril 0 points1 point ago

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This specimen may be very old. I can imagine a woman in the 1700/1800's being horrified by it.

The mother may have died also. That head looks like a bitch to pass.

[–]cakey138 0 points1 point ago

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Dear Allah I hope so...

[–]a2susan 16 points17 points ago

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For some reason, conjoined twins fascinate me!

[–]DoWhile 11 points12 points ago

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This seems to be more like one person with TWO bodies.

[–]a2susan 3 points4 points ago

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Even better... It could be the ultimate parasitic twin!

[–]Henipah 2 points3 points ago

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I think that's basically a semantic issue based on how many heads they have.

[–]baconsorcerer 8 points9 points ago

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He could literally fuck himself.

fuckery

[–]JoeyHollywood -1 points0 points ago

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That was my thought. Puberty would have sucked!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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I disagree. Puberty would have been AWESOME.

[–]Chemthunder 8 points9 points ago

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As a new father of twins, the chance of this happening kept me up at night.

[–]Decky86 5 points6 points ago

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Freaky coincidence. Watching the Ricky gervais show and they were talking about freaks. And Steve corrected Karl's 'one face , two bodies' with 'one head,two bodies) exactly as I read the description of this!

[–]BrandyAlexander9 0 points1 point ago

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That was my first thought too. The man with one face.

[–]dress-up 5 points6 points ago

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So my mother wasn't lying... There ARE people who share a brain.

[–]aisleofview 5 points6 points ago

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Looks like somebody has a bit of a split personality.

[–]papalkombat 2 points3 points ago

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And one creepy motherfucker who keeps this on his desk.

[–]torokunai 2 points3 points ago

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lived for a while like that too

[–]fruitybeans 2 points3 points ago

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Probably had a really big smile.

[–]sarcastro74 8 points9 points ago

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[–]Berkel 6 points7 points ago

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CRAB PEOPLE. CRAB PEOPLE.

[–]Nineboat 1 point2 points ago

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Fusion-dance gone wrong.

[–]THEMACGOD 1 point2 points ago

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That... That is one hell of an intelligent design.

[–]Howard_Beale 1 point2 points ago

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Sword fight!!!

[–]jackiewilsonsaid 1 point2 points ago

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The family-friendly sequel to CatDog

[–]spaceradish 1 point2 points ago*

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I really wanted to see this guy when I went to the Mutter, but they weren't on display at the time. Still amazing to go through the cases of things people swallowed.

It sucks that you can't take pictures on the inside, but you can buy books filled with photos of all the neat stuff they DON'T have on display in the museum.

EDIT: I also wanted to see these doods there, but also not on display, two heads, one body. I have a couple tote bags and a shirt with an illustration of this skeleton on it. :)

[–]ps02210 1 point2 points ago

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Finally, someone for whom "Go F*** Yourself" makes sense....

[–]yanniD 1 point2 points ago

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fapping would be a whole new experience

[–]atomicUpdate 0 points1 point ago

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[–]dendritic 0 points1 point ago

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Which one would lead when they danced?

[–]TheTattooedLady 0 points1 point ago

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yay mutter Museum

[–]therealknewman 0 points1 point ago

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Karl Pilkington should be notified.

[–]MacNamedDre 0 points1 point ago

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BushCheney04

[–]LokiTheFerret 0 points1 point ago

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You might say they are Two of one mind

[–]Niam_Leesom 0 points1 point ago

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Amazing what you can achieve when you put your heads together, death.

[–]Gabe_b 0 points1 point ago

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Like something out of Aristophanes

[–]WhosThatGirl_ItsRach 0 points1 point ago

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It looks so....happy

[–]idrwierd 0 points1 point ago

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the beast with two backs!

[–]Joanbuggy 0 points1 point ago

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I read this as One guy, two bodies and I was unsure how one guy could control two sets of arms, legs etc. Seeing people refer to them as two people makes more since.

[–]coolplate -1 points0 points ago

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"mmmhhh... biscuits with mustard."