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August 13th, 2007

The other guys dared you to do WHAT?

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Oddly Enough, ,

When I was growing up back in Indiana, we had a few firm rules in our home. No eating candy in the morning, always make your bed, and never put a live cobra head-first into your mouth. My sister did that once, and let me tell you, our mama wouldn’t let us play in the snake drawer again for a month!

This is why I was so shocked to see this photo. Hasn’t anyone ever told him that cobras do not work well for flossing, or that when a cobra and a human tongue go up against each other, it always ends up pretty much the same way?

Well, that’s where flouting the rules will get you. I’ll bet he doesn’t make his bed, either.

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Snake charmer Sajal Biswas puts the head of a cobra into his mouth at a roadside in Agartala, capital of India’s northeastern state of Tripura, August 8, 2007. REUTERS/Jayanta Dey

10 comments so far

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- Posted by chemaza

Smells like chicken, tastes like tongue.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Mr. Biswas, I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is you don’t have tonsilitis. The bad news is they don’t make antivenin icecream.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Gene Simmons just got the coolest tongue tattoo ever.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

I’ve heard of dragon breath but I have no idea what to make of this.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

There’s more than one way to skin a cobra. This one’s just over the top insane, of course.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Not only did he bite me, not only did he bite me with venomous fangs, he bit me in my root canal!

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Interesting game, Professor, where the only way to win is not to play.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

I said I needed a CHEVY cobra hood.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Home tongue piercing kits are all the rage these days.

- Posted by Lady Weasel

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