Jewelry is so classy!

Via.

The perfect gift for the man in your life!

From Etsy: “Anatomically accurate Stomach and Intestines cufflinks. The pair works well as a mixed set, but can also be ordered as 2 stomachs or 2 bowels. Contact us for details.”

Nice earrings!

Unplugged!

You’ve seen people with earlobe gauges before, like this nice guy who I met at Chicago's Wrigley Field. Like me, you may have wondered what inspires a person to stick something the size of an artillery shell through their earlobes. Well, it turns out there are a number of VERY GOOD REASONS to get an ear hole like this.

I’m sure I’ll think of one in a second.

Anyway, to make a hole this big in your earlobe requires work! So first you pierce the ear. Then you start stretching that hole by sticking larger and larger “gauges” into the hole to stretch it out. (The term gauge is a size measurement, like a 12 gauge shotgun.) The problem is that once that hole is bigger than six millimeters across, it’s not going to grow back.

And the odds are that some morning, a person with holey ears might look in the mirror and ask, "Why did I do that?" So today, there are a number of doctors who’ll reconstruct the whole earlobe for them! (That's the picture above.) But what if you stretch out an earlobe hole, then get a doctor to repair it, and then you change your mind and start a new ear plug earhole? What would happen?

A plastic surgeon said, “They'd run the risk of literally tearing their earlobe apart. It wouldn't withstand the stretching, and they'd have two little pieces.” Downer!

Second picture and quote from over here.

Eyeballing Some Jewelry?

If you're in the market for some jewelry, consider this Green Zombie Eye ring. But be careful! Just as real zombies are rotting and therefore somewhat delicate, this ring is also fragile.

My favorite part of the maker's description is this: "Comes with a certificate of authenticity." Really? Somewhere out there is a one-eyed zombie? How cruel have we become?