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i found this at an antique shop. it's a formaldehyde generator -- used to combat scarlet fever, yellow fever, malaria, etc. it filled the sickroom with formaldehyde gas. :shock:

do you ever find yourself confused by your own strong negative reaction or response to something? do you ever think you are attracted to a person or place, but in actuality you are really repulsed? :oops: not sure this makes any sense!

i thought we had a thread about trolls, but i couldn't find it. when does being a troll cross over into mental illness? being one troll -- probably not 2? 5? 20? 30? with spreadsheets? over a period of years? FYI: it's not me, and it's not happening here.

anybody know the origin of the phrase someone walked across my grave or someone stepped on my grave? my grandmother, who was german but grew up in the states, used to say this. was it said in the uk?

anybody else fascinated by the hauntingly beautiful lunatic asylums designed by thomas kirkbride in the 1800s? i'm not sure if any were built outside the states. http://www.customizedsolutions.org/haunts/ http://www.angelfire.com/id2/DanversStateHosp/dsh2.htm...

okay, i know we're talking about the real thing here, but i couldn't help posting this cute little zombie cake: http://www.theyrecoming.com/extras/zombiefest/ if i can come up with a lazy chef's version, i may give it a try. maybe this belongs on another thread... fortean recipes?

does anyone remember the deprivation experiment that took place about 15 years ago in or around Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico? College students lived in seclusion deep underground for...i think months. they had no clocks. i think it was two guys and one girl, in isolated confinement...