[ale] [Royal Eww] [OT] The most OT *AND* disgusting post EVER. It's a CAN'T MISS!

[Calvin Harrigan]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
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>> Should a wooden guy be around fire?
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> He is not wood... it is an extreme HPV infection.  He looks tree-ish, but 
> those are actually insanely huge warts.  (As silly as that looks to read it, 
> 'tis true.)
>
> See:
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>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidermodysplasia_verruciformis
>
> ... which is the condition he suffers from.  It is a skin disorder that makes 
> a person much more likely to contract cancer and other skin diseases such as 
> HPV, which is what the "tree man" has.  The only difference between him and 
> people you see in public who have warts on their hands/face/body is the fact 
> that his body is incapable of controlling the HPV infection and so it grows 
> wildly.
>
>  	--- Mike
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I know he's not really wood, it was a poor attempt at humor.  I read 
about this guy a year or two back.