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Lose A Finger? Put Some Powder On It

news.bbc.co.uk — Man lost his finger...and was able to regrow it using a powder composed from the cells of a pig's bladder. Watch the video. Crazy.

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  • DeathWish808, on 05/01/2008, -12/+214That's ***** incredible!
    • saqer, on 05/01/2008, -37/+9must u always resort to vulgar language?
      • ClevelandBrown, on 05/01/2008, -8/+17how ***** prude of you to say so.
      • trntman, on 05/01/2008, -6/+1Shut up or i will punch you in the face
      • Darph.Bobo, on 05/01/2008, -1/+5Sometimes it makes sense to use a word like that and this IS certainly one of them. Besides, it's a word and only has as much power as you give it. The problem is with you not the use of the word. ***** dumbass!
        • trntman, on 05/01/2008, -3/+0i know it's not an excuse worthy enough, but i totally messed up on where i was putting the comment. it was meant for sager. not clevelandbrown. sorry
        • synystar, on 05/01/2008, -2/+1...
    • dOOBiEx213, on 05/01/2008, -42/+5NECESSARY COMMENT ABUSE: DUPLICATE ***** STORY...BURIED...AND I KNOW THE SUBMITTER KNEW THIS WAS A DUPLICATE STORY.
      • wellyuk, on 05/01/2008, -4/+27Go cry yourself to sleep. No one gives a *****.
      • subterfuge, on 05/01/2008, -6/+4I give a *****, but only because i find this story interesting and i didnt see it the first time. So thank you for submitting the duplicate.
    • Kennerk, on 05/01/2008, -8/+1i think a better term would be insane, or ***** up....
    • ddrirc, on 05/01/2008, -0/+15someone needs to tell Frodo
    • DeathfireD, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1one question, does it have a bone still? If not then it's gonna be pretty hard to pick things up with a slab of meat for a finger.
    • MrFisty, on 05/01/2008, -1/+2So, next time I'm stuck inside two vending machines...
    • aggies11, on 05/01/2008, -1/+3While fantastic in theory, I'd be a bit concerned about long term effects. Unchecked cell growth could be a problem, and would this finger be more likely to develop cancer in the future?
    • bentrop, on 05/01/2008, -7/+10It's not that f*ing incredible. He did not lose "a finger" but just the tip of it, even the bone was unharmed.
      I actually lost a similar amount of my finger about 10 years ago, although it was not cleanly cut of but it was crushed and ripped off. I lost my fingernail and my fingerprint due to that accident ... and it also fully recovered - without any pig bladder. However I was 19 at the time and I'm not sure if it would have regrown like that if I had been 65. About nine month later one was unable to tell which finger the accident had happened to, the tip and the fingernail were perfectly regrown.
      The only thing that did change was my fingerprint. It is notably different than before and much more boring than my other prints. It's just a lot of closed, very simple and almost unnaturally geometric ovals. Fingerprints don't seem to be fully genetically encoded but are determined by other factors as well. Even identical twins, with identical DNA have different fingerprints.
      • Darph.Bobo, on 05/01/2008, -14/+4You're such a colossal idiot.

        Your reply shows your mind is too simple to even rate a rebuttal.
    • _Ty_, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4This is the kind of thing we always expected to be hearing about in the year 2008.
    • GliTCH82, on 05/01/2008, -6/+3This was on CBS news over a month ago, and I submitted it then. Guess maybe the headline I used wasn't catchy enough, although I thought for sure "Man regrows his severed finger" was sure to attract some kind of attention.

      http://digg.com/health/Man_Regrows_His_Severed_Fin ...
      • trunkster, on 05/01/2008, -1/+2It is odd how the submitter has only submitted one story and it made it to the front page. ***** it I'm going to digg your's because I'm tried of how digg works.

        --Wait sorry, Kevin Rose dugg this one. That's why it made it to the front page.
        • wellyuk, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1Repeat after me:

          Digg is not a competition.
          • GliTCH82, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1I wasn't competing really, I just wanted to bring it to people's attention because I thought it was cool. I guess Digg's grown far too big for a single submitter to bring something interesting to everyone's attention without having a network of other people that push their submission forward. I'm facing the same bureaucratic hurdles that some rookie journalist working for a big news organization would face trying to run an important story.
    • synystar, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4If you are truly offended that someone said ***** then I would suggest that you remove yourself from society. It will happen again.
    • diggingaround, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2I can see new spam storm...

      "BUY now AMAZING penis enlargement kit!
      Kit contains instructions, meat cleaver and growth powder!
      Simple to use... only $19.95!"
    • jacobj, on 05/01/2008, -2/+1I'll tell you what's ***** incredible: in a galaxy far far away, long ago, a young man had his hand lopped off by his dad. Now this civilisation could travel the stars, build space stations the size of a small moon, build sentient droids, cover a whole planet with a single city and still avoid global warming, project perfect holographic images (although as time moved on, that particular technology would lessen in quality), produce energy in such vast quantities that they could manufacture weapons grade lasers (from a portable device), genetically engineer clones to become subservient automatons whilst maintaining their higher brain functions: the list goes on and yet they could not re-grow a little hand. So in conclusion, what's ***** incredible is that we have pig's! If ever there were a proof that God made animals for the sake of man (;-)) it's the pig: roast pork, baked ham, sausages, parma ham, gammon, chorizo, speck, crackling, gelatine, two types of bacon (depending on the fat content required), chops, ribs for the barbecue and now we have magical pixie dust for growing new limbs. Keep probing the pig, all of our needs reside somewhere within it: the cure to cancer, the answer to next gen mass storage devices, immortality. It's all there.
      It's just a shame that the damned thing is so damned smart: oh, well, them's the breaks.
  • nspiezio, on 05/01/2008, -9/+48That is absolutely amazing!
    • linagee, on 05/01/2008, -0/+6Does it work on any limb? Does it just keep growing?
      • JoeOReilly, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2When it was on BBC 1 one early they said that they hoped to be able to grow bones, and then then grow the tissues to cover them, so eventually.
        • thumperings, on 05/01/2008, -1/+12worked on my penis.
        • synyster, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1what are the chances you got you dick cut off ?
          • RJNavarrete, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1I know it's happened at least once...
      • Bigbro69, on 05/01/2008, -0/+9I'm pretty sure linagee has an idea...
      • sanman, on 05/01/2008, -0/+5growing really long foreskin isn't quite the same as getting a really long penis
    • MrWally, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Isn't this just a more appropriate way of saying "That's ***** incredible!"?
    • Balks, on 05/01/2008, -1/+0The powder is a lie. It's obviously a troll in disguise. Did you know that if they cut off any limb, it will come back a little bigger?
    • lukeev, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Oinkment.
  • sap959, on 05/01/2008, -39/+31this be old!!!!
  • stafa786, on 05/01/2008, -3/+72This is truly remarkable. I wonder if it can be used for other lost body parts as well.
    • Swallowell, on 05/01/2008, -3/+215No you cannot regrow your penis.
    • gcnaddict, on 05/01/2008, -1/+28but can I enlarge it?
      • Hefelumpman, on 05/01/2008, -0/+27have you tried rubbing it?
        • passedoutghost, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3Furiously, each day for the past decade. Didn't work.
      • pr0t0, on 05/01/2008, -0/+6Sure it can! Cut yours off and I'll send you some dust.
      • billski, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1you think if you put some powder on the side, another penis would grow from it?
        like a fork-in-the-road/penis
  • carguy25, on 05/01/2008, -5/+20That's awesome!
    • Ourcellardoor, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Be on the lookout for a drifter with nine fingers.
  • Synge, on 05/01/2008, -34/+24Science 1 Miracles 0
    • GregIsLegend, on 05/01/2008, -6/+29Correction...



      Science 48239489234823948 Miracles 0
  • aldenhg, on 05/01/2008, -0/+183Pshhht. Everyone knows that Torgo's Executive Powder is good for basically everything.
    • amanilaenvelope, on 05/01/2008, -10/+1nah uh, this is Connor's Sewer Remedy at work for sure.
    • dsmx, on 05/01/2008, -0/+17Those Box network executives are finally doing a good job.
      • KillaJazzBass, on 05/01/2008, -0/+11I am Torgo, I regenerate the tips of fingers while the MASTER is away!

        (play the Torgo theme to fingernails growing in high speed)
    • TheRealToma, on 05/01/2008, -2/+1Dugg!
      http://digg.com/general_sciences/Regenerative_Powe ...
    • Klak, on 05/01/2008, -1/+1what about smeckler's powder?
    • nighthawk8713, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3Who needs Torgo's Executive Powder when you can have a Finglonger.
      • ShinyDemon, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2So that's what would have happened if I had invented the Finglonger...
    • flyingmeteor, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Wrong! It only has a million and one uses.
    • OneLess, on 05/01/2008, -1/+1You'd think they would have mentioned specifically which pigs they were making this powder from.
  • evilcaptain, on 05/01/2008, -2/+11Shhh! Don't let Bobbit find out.
    • finalblue, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Actually, you'd have to wonder about that because all that "appendage" really is is spongy tissue... no bones nor cartilage. So if you scrape a layer off of Bobbit and sprinkle a little pixie dust on there... wow it'll be like Prometheus in Hades.
      • KargeOfTylenol, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3Prometheus has been in Hades? I haven't read my copy of The National Greekquirer lately...
  • wefarrell, on 05/01/2008, -1/+78Who exactly are these pixies and why should we trust this dust that they give us?
    • Supurcell, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3Maybe pigsies would be more appropriate considering the source.
    • jlburke, on 05/01/2008, -1/+0have u tried reading the article?
  • Hiji, on 05/01/2008, -8/+41Imagine what they could do with cells from a pig's penis.
    • ciano, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1I'd buy it.
    • Myztry, on 05/01/2008, -0/+16Hmmm. Corkscrew. I suppose you could use the regrown one to open wine bottles...
    • subterfuge, on 05/01/2008, -5/+4if you'd read the article, you'd know that it's not actual pig cells but the matrix that holds the cells together. the man does not have pig cells anywhere on his finger. harvesting the cells from the pig's penis would have no beneficial impact.
      • nealyng, on 05/01/2008, -1/+6It was obviously a joke.
      • sifeliz, on 05/01/2008, -1/+3Now if only there were a powder to grow a sense of humor...
      • fermcg, on 05/02/2008, -1/+0Pixies, pigs, the matrix... are you sure they're not smoking the magic powder?
    • Kronk42583, on 05/01/2008, -6/+3to subterfuge.... way to not get the joke. figgin jerk. as for hiji, you're comment is terrible, but i can't help but dig it.
    • GuacamoleSan, on 05/01/2008, -1/+1comment of the day
  • wille1623, on 05/01/2008, -2/+19i wonder if it will work on hair loss
    • BlueStarr, on 05/01/2008, -0/+53Attempted and unfortunately it failed. http://tinyurl.com/6frv5s
    • subterfuge, on 05/01/2008, -0/+5since the man said his fingernail grows very quickly and fingernails and hair are made of the same material, i think it's definitely a possibility
      • freezz, on 05/01/2008, -1/+0but you wold have to chop half your head to get new skin that grows new hair.
        • synyster, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3so the question will be will it works on brain ?
    • banik2008, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Probably not, but if you cut your head off, this powder might help you grow a new one with hair on it
  • MadMax3000, on 05/01/2008, -18/+5Science=Miracle
    • subterfuge, on 05/01/2008, -1/+6no, science = deliberate, calculated acts by human brains

      miracles occur when something improbable happens. science is, essentially, a method of increasing the probability of something to happen. this something is, usually, extremely unlikely.
  • cheerio, on 05/01/2008, -1/+146In other news, a man uses 'pixie dust' to enlarge his penis to a record breaking 28 inches.
  • kaytrio, on 05/01/2008, -0/+48It's simply amazing to see how far medicine has come in the last 100 years.
    • pegothejerk, on 05/01/2008, -0/+25this really is an example of sufficiently advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic.
      • reddikilowatt, on 05/01/2008, -1/+2Interesting that this ended up right below the David Blane holding his breath trick.
      • Brainmodder, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Dugg for Arthur C. Clarke reference.
  • 3tcp, on 05/01/2008, -0/+105I'm overwhelmed by the amount of awesome in this story. Is there anything that pigs can't do?
    • Tripacer9999, on 05/01/2008, -3/+123fly
      • PRocker267, on 05/01/2008, -13/+4Epic win
        • paulvq, on 05/01/2008, -2/+10EPIC FAIL.
        • Kronk42583, on 05/01/2008, -0/+7all this epic crap needs to stop. how is it that diggers can kill almost everything within a week?
      • magus_melchior, on 05/01/2008, -2/+20Nonsense! Everything flies* with a trebuchet.

        * Intact landing not guaranteed.
      • lordenlil, on 05/01/2008, -1/+14I don't think you could have been set up any better. Perfect.
      • SpookyPig, on 05/01/2008, -0/+5You seem to be forgetting how Roger Water's pig escaped.
    • faithfreedom, on 05/01/2008, -3/+6Too bad that Muslims can't get benefit from this discovery
    • tghd, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4Swing from a web
    • adasha, on 05/01/2008, -0/+6Run a farm democratically?
    • atgmac, on 05/01/2008, -1/+4Spiderpig, spiderpig. Does whatever a spider pig does. Can he swing, from a web? No he can't, he's a pig. Look out, he is a spider pig.
  • SmellyFingers, on 05/01/2008, -13/+3OMG WtF HAHA!
  • AdamZC, on 05/01/2008, -5/+310FingerOn. Apply directly to your missing finger. FingerOn. Apply directly to your missing finger.
  • Nhmarine, on 05/01/2008, -17/+32Stem Cell Research FTW
  • four444, on 05/01/2008, -0/+38Why am I having deja vu?
  • Adeah, on 05/01/2008, -0/+5Wow. Strange and fascinating. How common is this stuff used? Have you ever personally met someone who has used this before?
    • retrofitme, on 05/01/2008, -0/+0I met a Veterinarian recently who uses this stuff on animals - he treated a dog that had been dragged under a car and suffered severe damage to his hind leg. All the skin and muscle tissues had been scraped off leaving exposed bone. He applied the pig bladder cell treatment and the dog made a full recovery. The dog's muscle, skin, and even hair regrew with virtually no scarring.

      What a boon this could be in the field of burn victims, especially since the treatment is affordable and can offer complete restoration with little or no scarring. The only sad part is that this technology has been around for nearly 10 years, and it's only now getting media attention.
    • retrofitme, on 05/05/2008, -0/+0I haven't seen the results personally, but the vet that I was working with was really excited about this treatment. He's been documenting his cases and may end up putting this documentation on his (future) website. Not sure though.
  • Tralobyte, on 05/01/2008, -7/+11Scientists actually say the powder had nothing to do with it and that the regeneration had to do with the guy's genetics.
    • jp12380, on 05/01/2008, -0/+17Where did you get this information?
      • Tralobyte, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4Eh, I'm pretty sure this was the link. It was posted a month ago when this story was popular: http://www.esquire.com/features/esquire-100/pigfin ...

        One quote: "... a Tulane scientist who has been working on tissue regeneration for two decades, says his own research suggests that fingertips can grow back on their own, even in a man's Spievack's age."
    • carbonetc, on 05/01/2008, -0/+5If it is genetics, it makes you wonder how many other people can do it. Most people's bodies are never put to the challenge. It could be more common than we think.
    • FishHammer, on 05/01/2008, -2/+7That is some fox news logic right there. Which scientists say that? God I internet.
      • Tralobyte, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Digg logic: Post something sensationalistic and watch everyone believe it.
      • baileyroche, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2This is no fluke. I work near Dr. Badylak's lab at UPMC. They are still undergoing clinical trials, but this is a very real type of regenerative medicine. Check out the Alan Russel TED talk for more info.
    • over900000, on 05/01/2008, -2/+2PETER!!!
    • wellyuk, on 05/01/2008, -0/+5They were right.. mutants do live among us.
    • lucutus, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Ken Muneoka, a Tulane scientist who has been working on tissue regeneration for two decades, says his own research suggests that fingertips can grow back on their own, even in a man's Spievack's age. He cautions that Spievack's finger did not grow back in a controlled study — meaning the injury and the response to it were not compared with someone else's in the same circumstances who didn't undergo treatment. Badylak doesn't deny the controlled-study issue, but he disputes the notion that someone as old as Spievack could grow the tip back on his own.
  • mhaluza, on 05/01/2008, -10/+98already posted about a month ago.
    http://digg.com/general_sciences/Regenerative_Powe ...
  • Cycline3, on 05/01/2008, -5/+6DUDE!
  • hdberk, on 05/01/2008, -4/+17I really want to believe it... but somehow I'm still skeptical. I know it's BBC, but he has feeling in the finger. Nerve cells don't go through mitosis, meaning once a nerve is gone, it's gone. Anyone have an explanation for this?
    • StrykeBlade, on 05/01/2008, -0/+16Yes... your knowledge of science in this area is old or from a high school textbook!! The ability to regrow nerves has never been an impossibility, just misunderstood. But recently with the last ten years have we been able to stimulate and control it
      • hdberk, on 05/01/2008, -3/+14I am in high school... what do you expect. I'm 9th grade.
    • bromac, on 05/01/2008, -3/+4http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8155

      "Marijuana might cause new cell growth in brain"

      That's not even close to the only story on it. You know that fact you were taught in school that nerve and brain cells don't grow back, ever? Yeah, it's not a fact anymore. It's a process called neurogenesis and while it doesn't usually happen on large scales, it does happen. Particularly in brain damaged patients. Science evolves, try to keep up.
  • Karroog, on 05/01/2008, -7/+631) He cut it before the joint, they can't grow back joints yet.
    2) You can program Stem cells to grow back anything, kind of been around for awhile.
    3)???????
    4) I like pie
    • ZaZ2137, on 05/01/2008, -0/+41dude.....i like pie too
    • Renian, on 05/01/2008, -1/+20But...do you profit?
    • coffee200am, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1I love you.
    • DNABeast, on 05/01/2008, -2/+1It cut the tip off down to the bone. There was no new bone growth needed.
    • Cashmoney504, on 05/01/2008, -2/+4Your doing it wrong.
    • Davediego, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1I think you mean turtles
    • damnyooneek, on 05/01/2008, -1/+1#2 is wrong. thats theoretically true but we haven't been able to actually grow anything back yet. science isnt to that point yet
  • bromac, on 05/01/2008, -5/+32Science: It works, bitch.
  • kodat, on 05/01/2008, -1/+5thats amazing holy *****
  • DannySpace, on 05/01/2008, -3/+22LET'S SEE DAVID BLAINE TO THAT!
    • linagee, on 05/01/2008, -0/+7David Blaine can eat his own head then regrow it.
    • ahoyhoy1, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3David Blaine can stick his head up his ass and pull it out of his mouth.
    • TVarmy, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4You wanna see some magic?
    • Intamin, on 05/01/2008, -1/+1I'll see your "David Blaine "and raise you a "Criss Angel."
  • paulie86, on 05/01/2008, -1/+5I doubt that it works for everyone, and probably not for anything other than fingertips... I mean think about it, it was just the very tip of his finger... it's just skin and fingernail that grew back, right? Skin will always grow back in time, this pixie dust just sped up the process.
    • gmiley, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3I bet it could be really helpful for replacing or working alongside skin grafts. I wonder how well it works on charred areas of burn victims. They could possibly cut away the destroyed portion of skin and muscle, add some powder. That would be a great thing if it could really be used that way.
    • willywong, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2It's not just speeding it up. It avoids the bodys natural tendency to scar rather than heal. They believe they'll be able to make it work on other body parts however this process by itself wouldn't be able to grow back complex limbs. On the news the guy said it would most likely be used on organs and bones. It may also be a building block for doing more complex things.
  • MadOgre, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4He's a lizard-man!
  • phybere, on 05/01/2008, -2/+31The only thing that would make this more complete is if it was an ad on late-night TV, and cost only $19.95 (plus s&h)

    ADDED BONUS: ORDER NOW AND RECEIVE TWO BOTTLES OF POWDER FOR THE PRICE OF ONE! CALL NOW!
    • DaHuuuuuudge, on 05/01/2008, -0/+8But ONLY if you call in the next 20 minutes!
    • BionicLT, on 05/01/2008, -0/+0you get a 100% cotton robe free!
  • Ruger11mcrdpi, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3Damn! I knew there was a reason It took three shots with a barrett to get a kill in COD4 today... body-parts-regenerating-pigs-cell hackers.
  • Myztry, on 05/01/2008, -6/+5Hope he doesn't get an itchy bum. He might get the urge to scratch around in the mud...
    • FishHammer, on 05/01/2008, -0/+13what the ***** are you talking about
      • Myztry, on 05/01/2008, -4/+1It's quite simple (and crude) and not worth explaining any further if people don't get it.
  • CaptainM4d, on 05/01/2008, -0/+16I wish there was a time-lapse of the finger growing. It would be ***** brutal!
  • Pirataholic, on 05/01/2008, -3/+6Holy crap....
    One of these days, some idiot is going to try to add inches to his P**is by cutting it off and sprinking this magic fairy dust on it....
    • FishHammer, on 05/01/2008, -0/+9so you capitalized the word penis but you censored it?
    • JohnnyHotballs, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2it would be no bigger than your current tiny *****
    • madrid, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1In the words of the ever-wise George Carlin, "*****. ***** you! Up yours. Get laid. Eat *****. Drop dead. Jack me off. I don't need parts that badly."
  • Squeetard, on 05/01/2008, -1/+5Lorena Bobbit might actually get a date now.
  • RSS14, on 05/01/2008, -8/+10Let's wait for the bible thumpers to twist this one
    • agentmedia, on 05/01/2008, -6/+1Just tell them it will allow us to have more wars in the future and they will be supportive
    • reddikilowatt, on 05/01/2008, -5/+2You have to pray to activate it.
    • TVarmy, on 05/01/2008, -2/+5It's based on pig's bladder. It'll be considered wrong if you think killing an animal for a practical purpose is wrong. If anyone wouldn't like it, it'd be Jews who keep kosher, and vegetarians and vegans.
  • evilrobotted, on 05/01/2008, -2/+8this has nothing to do with therapeutic stem cells. the "powder" he was applying was ground up extracellular matrix (ECM). the fact that is was from a pig also has nothing to do with it, since ECM proteins are pretty highly conserved across species. of course, it'd be pretty nasty to sprinkle donor human ECM on yourself.

    i think the most rational scientific explanation is that this man's own fibroblasts and dermal keratinocytes (or progenitors) were highly proliferative in the first place. adding the ground-up ECM to the surface may help provide a sort of natural substrate that such cells prefer, thereby enhancing the already excellent proliferative capacity.

    this man had amazing luck. it does not herald a major breakthrough in amputee treatments. otherwise, even for skin grafts, this is a conceptual step backward.
    • DaHuuuuuudge, on 05/01/2008, -2/+2Who said it had anything to do with stem cells?
      • evilrobotted, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3a bunch of dugg comments did. i shoulda replied
  • WhoDoneIt, on 05/01/2008, -3/+2Still hope for Mr. Bobbit yet!!
    • wellyuk, on 05/01/2008, -0/+5Too late. Look a few comments upwards.
  • Fallout911, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4That is astounding!!
  • W0lf1o, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Holy !@#$ I would never have imagined.
  • Georgy, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4This should have way more diggs and comments, i don't think people realize how much of a breakthrough this is....
  • ParkourRunner, on 05/01/2008, -10/+1Are you guys serious? I hope you know most of these stories from "BBC" are complete BS! Remember the one about the "virus that reanimated corpses into a violent state" that was on here a while back? That was from the "BBC" as well. THINK PEOPLE.
  • brianbb98, on 05/01/2008, -1/+6Why am I having deja vu?
    • pigducksheep, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1because this has been on the front page before.
      • Manex, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1either that, or a brain tumor which Im sure the powder can help you with
  • aaronbrannt, on 05/01/2008, -4/+3thank Christ for that new finger. He heals.
  • urlostinmyworld, on 05/01/2008, -12/+3Posted 2 months ago. Discovered to be fake.

    Still just as fake as 2 months ago.
    Still just as fail.
    • tavisjohn, on 05/01/2008, -1/+11You fail because you did not link to the source where they tell how it was fake.
  • ruds, on 05/01/2008, -6/+3Sounds like bologna to me.
  • coffee200am, on 05/01/2008, -3/+12At least we know one thing for sure ...He's not Muslim.
    • oonix, on 05/01/2008, -3/+1he didnt have to eat the powder
      • nzanjani, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1you're right. qur'an 2:173 only refers to eating, and what is forbidden to eat is pig's meat, not any other part of the pig. nevertheless, everything related to pigs is generally considered taboo is islamic cultures. that means no gelatin (made of pig's collagen), no charlotte's web or babe (pig characters feature prominently), and definitely no pet pigs! weird? yeah. methinks my people take these matters far too seriously...
  • Hinph, on 05/01/2008, -0/+31Pft. What they don't tell you is that he occasionally turns into a lizard man and wreaks havoc on the streets of New York City.
  • AtheismFTW, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3Why Doesn't God Heal Amputees?

    Cause science does.
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