Not me, my dad.
My dad was young when the movie 'Zulu' was popular, having never seen it myself I am told that the Zulu warriors in it have things sticking in/out/shake-it-all-about of their noses, I'm guessing tribal things, aye?

Now my dad lived near a small forest and a river, so there was plenty of places for him to play when he was a kid. Now does any 1 know them plants that when they get old or die, the stems (which are shaped hexagonally, but with more sides, if you catch my drift) go light brown and hard, which you can peel away and inside is a thick tube of foam like stuff? Well I hope you do as its part of the damn story.

Anyway, my dad, playing Zulu with his friends one day decided he really should try to be a more authentic Zulu warrior and so got two of these stems, peeled of the 'bark' to get the foam tube below and promptly stuck them up his nose.

I can imagine his glee at being even more Zulu'ey than the others, I can imagine him playing around having fun, I can definitely imagine the panic on his face when he realises they are stuck and it damn well hurts.

Apparently he had to go to the hospital to get them removed, which my grandma, being the understanding and softly softly sort of parent reacted to by giving him a belting.

Lesson, don't stick plant life up your nose.
(Guilt wants to get in your moist confines, Sat 26 Jul 2008, 16:54, 1 reply)

Yeah
That'll be Cow Parsley.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 11:44, closed)