At least you closed it with a pleasant salutation.

This one qualified as waaaay too much information, Echo!

But next time (hopefully there will not be a next time!) try Dr. Boudreaux's butt paste for the soreness..it always seems to work for the kids assorted butt-related issues.

Please just confirm that this shithole restaurant you went to is not in NJ as Scara and I are going out tonight and we don't need that shit.. :)

'choleric' or 'caloric'? Maybe you have cholera. The main symptom of that is the shits. What did you order? What type of restaurant was it? Did it look dirty? How long after eating did the symptoms appear?

He he. Cindy said butt-paste.

"One really hasn't lived until they feel as if they've shit out their lower intestine. "

Huh? I always shit out of my lower intestine. I think. Small intestine is for the piss and large is for shit. Pissing out of your large intestine would be something...

Anyway, hope you feel better Echo. Drink lots of water and tell your peeps about the perps. Maybe you can holler at the health department.

E, Echo meant that he felt as though he had no remaining lower intestine left after his weekend---the lower half of the body's version of feeling like you threw your stomach up along with the contents...

at least that's what I interpreted...Echo, please correct me if I'm wrong on this one.

Cindy, a friend of mine in HS once said that if you were trying to get over a crush, all you had to do was picture him doing his business on the toilet.

Maybe Lindsey hijacked Echo's laptop and posted this to scare off the many mailbag letter writers who want a date with her man...

Ahh. I get it. Thanks SO. Also, yikes.

SO, you could be correct. I can only imagine how many admirers our Echo has out there...probably a few less after this post...

Echo, we're glad that you feel comfortable enough with us to share this sort of thing..what's a little crap between friends.. ?

And here's a link for the butt pasted. I can be purchased at Target..
http://www.buttpaste.com/BLButtPaste.php

Echo..I thought of you when I saw this..

http://failblog.org/2009/02/05/k-mart-fail/

nighty-nite!

I too .. (I confess) .. have been there echo but in my case it was a nasty little virus going around the office .. I made it home just in time to decorate my bathroom from tub to wall to toilet and back again ... I had no idea the human body contained such volumes of shit .. and after all was said and done I did indeed feel as though I had been ridden hard and put away wet ..

the absolute best part of this kind of trauma is when at one point you can without question determine that the worst is over and the sun will indeed rise again .. the relief is palpable ..

alex, you mean saddlebacked hard and put away wet....

(had to squeeze in the saddleback reference that I missed the other day!!!)

but this is not a laughing matter...it's a miserable thing...karma is a bitch, so I won't be making fun...

and this is why I'm grateful NC has to post their health dept ratings...I'm a bit fanatical about what is an acceptable score (because the evening news will tell you what the violations are)--and I hold a grudge. If you once earned a 70-something score (out of 100), I will never cross your threshold...

E, I don't think he has cholera. Yes the major symptom of cholera is mud-butt, but the pathogen is on the CDC must report list, not to mention very virulent. So if Echowood had cholera not only would nearly everyone who so much as walked into that restaurant and touched the counter, but it would have been on national news (and he'd probably be dead).

The three common causes of acute flu-like illness are either E. coli, S. typhimurium (salmonella), or the norovirus. An E. coli infection typically would not have vomiting involved. That leaves norovirus and salmonella as the likely culprits. At this point is it inconsequential seeing as our friend Echo is no longer launching evil from every orifice. But salmonella usually has about a 12 hour incubation time once in our gut. So that would mean if you got sick at any point prior to 12 hours after eating the food from wherever then the only role the establishment played was as a fomite. While still enough to give you just cause to not eat there again, it was of no fault of their own. Then again if it was about 12 hours since eating that you got sick then it was probably salmonella contamination.

And just for completeness there is no such thing as upper and lower intestines. It is small and large. The large intestine is otherwise known as the colon and is further subdivided into the ascending, transcending, decsending, and sigmoidal colon, terminating as the rectum and exiting via the anus. Read chapters 14-16 and there will be a quiz on Friday.

Oh, after re-reading it I see that you didn't mention vomiting. Well in that case it was probably E. coli. If you're still sick you should probably see your family doc so he/she can do some cultures.

"while debating if it were face-up or face-down that would be the best position for me not to asphyxiate on my own vomit"

I caught that the first time because of the graphic image it provided to me....

Oh my bad. Not E. coli then.

Thanks S.O. for being so keen on picking out the really... ahem .... juicy parts.

No prob---when Echo described his potential rock star demise, I picked up on it.

plus I have a low gross out threshold for vomit--so I notice it fairly quickly.

Echo, we need more details! What dish did you order? We're not going to blame the victim if you ordered the Poo Poo platter or something.

Damn Jimbo. You know your shit. And you probably be right, it's not likely cholera. Then again, we don't know it was the food. If it was water born... I read that book Ghost Map last year so on that basis everything is cholera unless proven otherwise. (I am not a Dr. btw. Well Dr. of Love but nevermind...)

E--I read that book last year also...almost hurled while reading the first 10 pages because the description was more graphic than anything that Echo served up above...

Just realized that we really love to shoot the shit around this place...

I'm betting that Scara could put together a top 10 poop related stories and forum topics article....esp if you add in those gems from Dave and FranktheTank...

Good point SO. While we are on the subject of food and shit, did you know that commercial mushrooms are grown in feces (sterilized supposedly). Wash those bad boys off! Or not, if you are into scat. I don't judge.

E, bacteria can thrive in water. At some point in your life you've probably tried to go to the beach only to find it shut down, or at least posted with no swimming signs. That's most often because the E. coli load in the water is high enough to pose a public safety risk. And the E. coli come from.. you guessed it.. raw sewage.

And speaking of raw sewage and growing mushrooms on feces, most municipal water treatment facilities have several jobs transforming the poop-soup coming from your crapper back into potable agua. When the bacterial load is at safe levels, and most of the solid has precipitated out the water can be introduced back into the environment, usually by evaporation. But what do they do with the sludge of poop-goop? Well they give it away to local farmers - that's what. So most of the food grown in the US is grown in some kind of poo. I should say that most food from anywhere in the world is grown in poo. The US has tight regulations on the bacterial content, where as Mexico, for example, doesn't. So while eating food grown in soil fertilized with human and animal waste may sound gross, it is the oldest fertilizer in on earth.

Jimbo, my comments were a little tongue in cheek. I have no problems with mushrooms.