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Nu, it could be worse
If you want to start out 2008 with something to be thankful about, count yourself fortunate that your kid has not come come with this nasty piercing, found in an old National Geographic. I don't have the date, as this was a leaf I tore out for future use some time ago, and it just re-surfaced in my slush pile.
The "handsome father" (I swear, that's what the Geographic's caption called him) is sporting an ornament crafted from the shell of a living turtle! Apparently the turtle is able to grow a new shell. The caption continues, "This pendant resembles a New Zealand Maori decoration intended to represent a human embryo and to give women fertility.
I suppose this guy's wife would need some help with fertility. What woman in her right mind would lie down with someone sporting this artificial booger?
Whatever you do, DON'T let your teenage sons see this. I will not be held responsible for having given them a new idea for a way to gross out their parents...