Clipmarks | CrazyRedHead's clipshttp://clipmarks.com/clipper/CrazyRedHead/date/2008/5/6/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/CrazyRedHead/date/2008/5/6/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-us'Being stared at was all I ever knew'http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/9BC4DF28-675D-4A9F-B37E-67326F5F026D/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/CrazyRedHead/">CrazyRedHead</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> In 1993, Paul Tessier, the "grandfather" of cranio-facial surgery, performed a massive procedure on him in Paris to bring his eyes closer together and lower his eyebrows. Before the operation, Adam overheard Tessier saying to his anaesthetist in French, "We're entering a patch of fog without a compass."<br/> <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,2278072,00.html" title="http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,2278072,00.html">lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/0CC69554-FEDC-4179-BFD4-BD6A2FA51A07.jpg" alt="Christian Constantine, who has had more than 35 operations to rebuild his facial features" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Christian Constantine was born with the severest facial deformities his doctors had ever seen. Since a baby, he has been through more than 35 agonising operations to rebuild his features.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">"I didn't know anything was wrong until Christian was born and I saw my doctor's eyes," she says. "Then they put me to sleep again immediately. I didn't see him for three days. Not until the nurses said, 'First we're going to show a Polaroid picture of baby to mummy.' That's when I insisted on actually seeing him. He was very wrong-looking indeed. But I felt love at first sight."</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">The doctors were mystified. The bones of Christian's face had stopped forming prematurely, </div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">his eyes were too far apart and his eyebrows abnormally high, and a severe cleft lip and palate, leaving the roof of his mouth open and the top gum exposed. </div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">the doctors were particularly concerned that the frontal lobe of his brain had been damaged by the cleft, which went up to his forehead. </div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/courage/" rel="tag">courage</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/birth+defects/" rel="tag">birth defects</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/science/" rel="tag">science</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/child/" rel="tag">child</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/health/" rel="tag">health</a></div>http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,2278072,00.htmlTue, 06 May 2008 20:08:44 GMT10 Insulting Words You Should Knowhttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/8DFC6CA8-E572-407C-BF90-B2EDF7E4F5DF/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/CrazyRedHead/">CrazyRedHead</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> Cacafuego Synonyms: BLATHERSKITE, BRAGGADOCIO, FANFARON, GASCONADER, and RODOMONTADE. See analysis of the other words at the site. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/03/10-insulting-words-you-should-know/" title="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/03/10-insulting-words-you-should-know/">www.neatorama.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">There is a crisis of insults on the Web. On one hand, the volume of flames is very high yet the quality is poor. </div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Gone are the days of the razor-sharp wit of Oscar Wilde and Winston Churchill*, only to be replaced by a string of four letter words typed in ALL CAPS by n00bs </div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">10 Insulting Words You Should Know:</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/0544C37E-D935-44D6-AD78-838CB3B4F92E.gif" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">1. FRENCHIFY </div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><STRONG>Definition</STRONG>: 1) To make French in quality or trait 2) To make somewhat effeminate, and 3) To contract a veneral disease (a 19th century slang).</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/5B243E28-1B5B-44BF-BD88-F114817BB466.gif" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">2. BESCUMBER</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><STRONG>Definition</STRONG>: To spray with poo.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/C1AB3A17-8F23-4628-AE83-6E138094345A.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">3. MICROPHALLUS</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><STRONG>Definition</STRONG>: An unusually small penis.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/3624C304-8627-40A1-AF10-0CAD75C4F62C.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">4. COCCYDYNIA</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><STRONG>Definition</STRONG>: Pain in the butt.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/08E52605-53EE-4D38-A5BB-AB901D87B59D.gif" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">5. NINNYHAMMER<STRONG></STRONG></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><STRONG>Definition</STRONG>: A fool or a silly person.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">6. BUNCOMBE</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><STRONG><IMG width="150" height="206" class="imageleft" src="http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2008-05/bunkum.gif" />Definition</STRONG></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">bullshit or nonsense.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/8B6C2186-FDE4-48AA-A730-FE3C205E4D79.gif" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/A3F76FE7-F2A8-47B1-995A-E54729131123.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">7. HIRCISMUS</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><STRONG>Definition</STRONG>: Offensive armpit odor.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/3DBDA9A5-4D06-4B3F-BAAB-4A0EEBECF7C5.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">8. CORPULENT</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><STRONG>Definition</STRONG>: Very fat.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/DD6E0940-BBB6-42ED-AFBE-B2526F381EBF.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">9. FEIST or FICE</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV><STRONG>Definition</STRONG>: 1) A small dog of uncertain ancestry, a mongrel. 2) A person of little worth or someone with a bad temper, and 3) Silent fart.</DIV> </div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/DF567013-462D-4E1A-8DA1-C487A5ED8F8A.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">10. CACAFUEGO</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><STRONG>Definition</STRONG>: A swaggering braggart or boaster.</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/humor/" rel="tag">humor</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/humour/" rel="tag">humour</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/words/" rel="tag">words</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/english/" rel="tag">english</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/scatological+tinntinnabulations/" rel="tag">scatological tinntinnabulations</a></div>http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/03/10-insulting-words-you-should-know/Tue, 06 May 2008 19:39:34 GMT