The spleen, the strange little organ that can multiply

Re:The spleen, the strange little organ that can multiply by stcredzero on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @01:35PM (#13178418)

A housemate of mine used to call herself "The spleenless wonder." It was removed after a car accident.

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Re:The spleen, the strange little organ that can multiply by berntb on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @02:27PM (#13178905)

I got just one extra spleen (small, one percent of the population or so have that. Edit: at least that was what the doctor told me; TFA said 20%).

I call myself "splenically superior" and argue that it obviously explains my mean personality. :-)

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Re:The spleen, the strange little organ that can multiply by jcoffland on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @02:31PM (#13178950)

The article says your chances of having an extra spleen are one in five.

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Re:The spleen, the strange little organ that can multiply by berntb on Thursday December 15, 2016 @01:39AM (#13182888)

<Cough> HN used to downvote stupid jokes like mine in the previous comment, not upvote them.

I humbly submit that I deserved downvotes. It is better to disincentive us hopeless clowns on HN, even when we manage to be funny.

Edit: That was quick. :-)

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Re:The spleen, the strange little organ that can multiply by dang on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @09:37PM (#13181914)

> The spleenless wonder

For those who might not recognize it, this derives from a hilarious (and, atypically, authenticated) witticism of Churchill's: http://www.newsweek.com/boneless-wonder-176272.

Had my kids been in Parliament in 1931 they would have said "burn".

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