Discuss

[Paul Mackin]

On 2/12/2013 11:14 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:47 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
>> We are not all the semi-famous Baby Tyrone who was handed over to be the
>> subject of experimentation.  Certanly I wasn't.  You, I don 't know ...
>>
>> We are all experimented on as children.
>>
> well, as a lad, my cousin experimented on me by putting my finger in a
> vise and tightening it until I got a blood blister.  Setting a
> lifelong pattern, I stood there amiably and bemusedly, almost savoring
> the feeling, until he tired of the experiment and opened the vise.
>
> Somehow our parents got word of it - I don't remember making a fuss -
> and he was administered gentle verbal correction -- another
> experiment, nobody knows how that sort of thing will turn out, but he
> grew up to be a kindly adult with whom I converse fearlessly.
>

My younger sister once rendered me semiconscious swinging a stringed 
pupet around in the air.  Hard ceramic material of some sort. I never 
told on her of course.

P