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17 March 2006

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When you crack your knuckles, the pressure released can travel up your arm, past your elbow and shoulder, and into your head. Then you die.

post by: jelly at: 20:17 | 9 comments

So when I crack my neck the released pressure travels down my arms and blasts into my knuckles giving me ... non-autoimmune arthritis?

posted by porpoise 17 March | 20:24

Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

posted by amro 17 March | 20:28

also called "be prepared and improvise"

posted by ethylene 17 March | 20:34

What would happen if I sneezed or blew my nose? I can't even stand thinking about it.

posted by sophieblue 17 March | 21:02

Well, if yur a guy sophiblue, ya blow out yur left testicle. Ifin yur a woman person, I wouldn't want ta guess!

posted by jelly 17 March | 21:22

If you sneeze while you're blowing your nose, your brain will come out your ears.

posted by deborah 17 March | 23:14

or blow out our eardrums
or make you look like dizzy gillespie

posted by ethylene 18 March | 00:05

I posit that the default state on metafilter is dickishness. And no it didn't used to be as bad and no not everyone. The median is dickeroonie however.

posted by Divine_Wino 18 March | 00:22

I think the problem is people who agree with you rarely say anything, and people who don't always make themselves known.

posted by knave 18 March | 02:32

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