Secrets of the City

there’s always the mutter if you’re daring enough to venture to philly

Was at the Science Museum yesterday and they had an exhibit about quack medical implements. Not sure if they were the same artifacts from the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, but it was similar. I think that’s a relatively new exhibit. I don’t recall seeing it when I was there a few months ago. My favorite was the wood-and-sheet-metal box that was supposed to cure you if you sat in it.

two sentences in and i new this was a sparber post

The stuff at the Science Museum is from the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices. But they don’t let you play with the stuff like they used to.

20-odd years ago, I had the bumps on my head read by the machine that senses your personality traits via the minute variations in the shape of your skull.

I was young enough that the guy running the museum – the one who was later on Letterman – told me that I could worry about the results of my “libidinous” bumps “in a few years”, he said.

I sincerely love that the display at the science museum has an orgone accumlator. I love me some orgone energy! Wilhelm Reich was a visionary!

Incidentally, having metal slivers in your body, especially your eyes, is a real hazard if you go in for an MRI. It’s usually machinists that they worry the most about. You have to fill out a questionnaire before getting an MRI that asks about situations that may result in you having metal in your body. If they’re worried, they’ll x-ray you first.

having metal slivers in your body, especially your eyes, is a real hazard if you go in for an MRI

I can’t decide if I’m totally delighted or repulsed by that.

magnet

Magent

I was fairly certain they were talking about some odd German Beach.

I know what THIS gent sucks!

And that’s spelling. This gent sucks at spelling.