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Hello all,
Did you'll know the real names of the following stars???
Love,
Ananth


Celebrities' real names
They weren't the names they were born with.
But we reveal the celebs real names below:
A
Alan Alda = Alphonso D'Abruzzo
Woody Allen = Allen Konigsberg
Muhammad Ali = Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.
Julie Andrews = Julia Elizabeth Wells
Fred Astaire = Frederick Austerlitz
Chet Atkins = Chester B. Atkins
Frankie Avalon = Francis Thomas Avalonne

B
Lauren Bacall = Betty Joan Perske
Anne Bancroft = Anna Maria Italiano
Brigitte Bardot = Camille Javal
Pat Benatar = Patricia Andrejewski
Tony Bennett = Anthony Benedetto
Jack Benny = Benjamin Kubelsky
Tom Berenger = Thomas Michael Moore
Chuck Berry = Charles Edward Anderson Berry
Billy The Kid = William H. Bonney
Robert Blake = Michael Gubitosi
Jon Bon Jovi = John Francis Bongiovi
Bono (U2) = Paul Hewson
Sonny Bono = Salvatore Phillip Bono
David Bowie = David Robert Jones
Boy George = George Alan O'Dowd
Charles Bronson = Charles Buchinski
Albert Brooks = Albert Einstein
Mel Brooks = Melvin Kaminsky
George Burns = Nathan Birnbaum
Ellen Burstyn = Edna Gilhooley
Richard Burton = Richard Jenkins

C
Nicholas Cage = Nicholas Coppola
Michael Cain = Maurice Micklewhite
Maria Callas = Maria Kalogeropoulos
Eric Carr (Kiss) - Paul Charles Caravello
Vikki Carr = Florencia Casillas
Ray Charles = Ray Charles Robinson
Chubby Checker = Ernest Evans
Cher = Cherilyn Sarkisian
Eric Clapton - Eric Patrick Clapp
Patsy Cline = Virginia Patterson Hensley
Claudette Colbert = Lily Chauchoin
Nat King Cole = Nathaniel Adams Coles
Chuck Connors = Kevin Joseph Connors
Robert Conrad = Conrad Robert Falk
Alice Cooper = Vincent Furnier
Gary Cooper = Frank James Cooper
David Copperfield = David Kotkin
Howard Cosell = Howard Cohen
Elvis Costello = Declan Patrick McManus
Lou Costello = Louis Cristillo
Joan Crawford = Lucille Le Sueur
Michael Crawford = Michael Dumble-Smith
Bing Crosby = Harry Lillis Crosby
Tom Cruise = Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
Tony Curtis = Bernard Schwartz

D
Rodney Dangerfield = Jacob Cohen
Bobby Darin = Walden Waldo Robert Cassotto
John Denver = John Henry Deutschendorf
Donovan = Donovan Phillip Leitch
Doris Day = Doris von Kappelhoff
James Dean = James Byron
John Denver = Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.
Bo Derek = Mary Cathleen Collins
Danny DeVito = Daniel Michaeli
Angie Dickinson = Angeline Brown
Bo Diddley = Otha Elias Bates McDaniel
Vin Diesel = Mark Vincent
Phyllis Diller = Phyllis Driver
Fats Domino = Antoine Domino
Kirk Douglas = Issur Danielovitch
Bob Dylan = Robert Zimmerman

E
Sheena Easton = Sheena Shirley Orr
The Edge (U2) = David Howell Evans
Elvira = Cassandra Paterson
Eminem - Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Enya = Eithne Ni Bhraonain
David Essex = David Albert Cook

F
Morgan Fairchild = Patsy McClenny
Adam Faith = Terence Nelhams
Fatboy Slim = Quentin Cook (aka Norman Cook)
Sally Field = Sally Mahoney
W.C. Fields = William Claude Dukenfield
Jodie Foster = Alicia Christian Foster
Michael J. Fox = Michael Andrew Fox
Connie Francis = Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero
Billy Fury = Ronald Wycherley

G
Greta Garbo = Greta Gustafsson
Judy Garland = Frances Gumm
James Garner = James Bumgarner
Crystal Gayle = Brenda Gayle Webb
Bobbie Gentry = Roberta Streeter
Kathie Lee Gifford = Kathie Epstein
Whoopie Goldberg = Caryn Johnson
Cary Grant = Archibald Leach

H
Hammer = Stanley Kirk Burrell
Laurence Harvey = Laruschka Skikne
Rita Hayworth = Margarita Cansino
Jimi Hendrix = Johnny Allen Hendrix
Pee-Wee Herman = Paul Reubenfeld
Barbara Hershey = Barbara Herzstine
Hulk Hogan = Terry Gene Bollea
Billie Holliday = Eleanora Fagan
Buddy Holly = Charles Hardin Holley
Bob Hope = Leslie Townes Hope
Harry Houdini = Ehrich Weiss
Rock Hudson = Roy Scherer Jr.
Engelbert Humperdinck = Arnold George Dorsey

I
Janis Ian = Janis Eddy Fink
Ice Cube = Oshea Jackson
Ice-T = Tracy Morrow
Billy Idol = William Broad
Iggy Pop = James Jewell Osterberg, Jr.
Burl Ives = Burle Icle Ivanhoe

J
David Janssen = David Meyer
Elton John = Reginald Dwight
Don Johnson = Donald Wayne
Al Jolson = Asa Yoelson
Brian Jones (Rolling Stones) = Lewis Brian Hopkins-Jones
Jenny Jones = Janina Stranski
Tom Jones = Thomas Woodward
Wynonna Judd = Christina Ciminella

K
Boris Karloff = William Henry Pratt
Danny Kaye = David Kaminsky
Diane Keaton = Diane Hall
Michael Keaton = Michael Douglas
Chaka Khan = Carole Yvette Marie Stevens
Carole King = Carole Klein
Larry King = Larry Zeigler
Ben Kingsley = Krishna Banji
Nastassja Kinski = Nastassja Naksyznyski
Billy J Kramer (The Dakotas) = William H Ashton
Kris Kristofferson = Kris Carson

L
Cheryl Ladd = Cheryl Stoppelmoor
Veronica Lake = Constance Ockleman
Dorothy Lamour = Mary Kaumeyer
Michael Landon = Eugene Orowitz
Mario Lanza = Alfredo Arnold Cocozza
Queen Latifah = Dana Owens
Stan Laurel = Arthur Jefferson
Steve Lawrence = Sidney Leibowitz
Brenda Lee = Brenda Mae Tarpley
Bruce Lee = Lee Yuen Kam
Spike Lee = Shelton Jackson Lee
Jay Leno = James Douglas Muir Leno
Huey Lewis = Hugh Cregg
Jerry Lewis = Joseph Levitch
Liberace = Wladziu Lee Valentino
Jack Lord = John Joseph Ryan
Sophia Loren = Sophia Scicoloni
Peter Lorre = Laszio Lowenstein
Courtney Love = Michelle Harrison
Bela Lugosi = Bela Ferenc Blasko
Lulu = Marie Lawrie

M
Shirley MacLaine = Shirley Beaty
Elle MacPherson = Eleanor Gow
Madonna = Madonna Louise Ciccone
Lee Majors = Harvey Lee Yeary II
Karl Malden = Mladen Sekulovich
Mama Cass Elliot (Mamas & Papas) = Ellen Naomi Cohen
Manfred Mann = Manfred Lubowitz
Barry Manilow = Barry Alan Pincus
Jayne Mansfield = Vera Jane Palmer
Marilyn Manson = Brian Warner
Walter Matthau = Walter Matuschanskayasky
Dean Martin = Dino Crocetti
Groucho Marx = Julius Henry Marx
Meat Loaf = Marvin Lee Aday
Freddie Mercury (Queen) = Frederick Farookh Bulsara
Ethel Merman = Ethel Zimmerman
George Michael = Georgios Panayiotou
Joni Mitchell = Roberta Joan Anderson
Moby = Richard Melville Hall
Marilyn Monroe = Norma Jean Mortenson (later Baker)
Demi Moore = Demetria Guynes
Rita Moreno = Rosita Alverio
Harry Morgan = Harry Bratsburg

N
Chuck Norris = Carlos Ray
Andre Norton = Mary Alice Norton
Notorious B.I.G. = Christopher Wallace

O
Ozzy Osbourne = John Michael Osbourne

P
Jack Palance = Walter Palanuik
Bernadette Peters = Bernadette Lazzaro
Edith Piaf = Edith Giovanna Gassion
Slim Pickens = Louis Lindley
Mary Pickford = Gladys Smith
Stephanie Powers = Stefania Federkiewicz
Prince = Prince Rogers Nelson

R
Tony Randall = Leonard Rosenberg
Johnnie Ray = John Alvin
Donna Reed = Donna Belle Mullenger
Della Reese = Delloreese Patricia Early
Cliff Richard = Harry Rodger Webb
Joan Rivers = Joan Sandra Molinsky
Edward G. Robinson = Emmanuel Goldenberg
Sugar Ray Robinson = Walker Smith, Jr.
Ginger Rogers = Virginia McMath
Mickey Rooney = Joe Yule Jr.
Axl Rose (Guns N Roses) = William Bruce Rose
Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols) = John Lydon
Winona Ryder = Winona Horowitz

S
Susan Sarandon = Susan Tomaling
Telly Savalas = Aristotle Savalas
Jane Seymour = Joyce Frankenberg
Del Shannon = Charles Weedon Westover
Omar Sharif = Michael Shalhoub
Charlie Sheen = Carlos Irwin Estevez
Martin Sheen = Ramon Estevez
Talia Shire = Talia Coppola
Sinbad = David Atkins
Eric Singer (Kiss) = Eric Mensinger
Slash = Saul Hudson
Slim Dusty = David Gordon Kirkpatrick
Dusty Springfield = Mary Isobel Catherine O'Brien
Suzanne Somers = Suzanne Mahoney
Robert Stack = Robert Modini
Barbara Stanwyck = Ruby Stevens
Sylvester Stallone = Michael Sylvester Enzio Stallone
Ringo Starr = Richard Starkey
Cat Stevens = Yusef Islam
Connie Stevens = Concetta Ingolia
Sting = Gordon Sumner
Donna Summer = La Donna Gaines

T
Mr. T = Lawrence Tero
Robert Taylor = Spangler Arlington Brugh
Danny Thomas = Muzyad Yakhoob
Tiny Tim = Herbert Khaury
Rip Torn = Elmore Rual Torn Jr.
Randy Travis = Randy Traywick
Sophie Tucker = Sophia Kalish
Tina Turner = Annie Mae Bullock
Mark Twain = Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Twiggy = Leslie Hornby

U
The Undertaker = Mark Calloway

V
Rudolph Valentino = Rudolpho D'Antonguolla
Frankie Valli (Four Seasons) = Frank Castelluccio
Sid Vicious = John Simon Ritchie

W
John Wayne = Marion Morrison
Sigourney Weaver = Susan Alexandra Weaver
Raquel Welch = Raquel Tejada
Gene Wilder = Jerome Silberman
Shelley Winters = Shirley Schrift
Stevie Wonder = Stevland Morris
Natalie Wood = Natasha Gurdin
Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones) = William Perks
Tammy Wynette = Wynette Pugh


Live on your beliefs and strength- and you will become immortal.
 
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SOME PLACES - to live in?
Weird funny place names
Would you like to live here? These are names of actual locations:

Arsoli (Lazio, Italy)
Bastard (Norway)
Beaver (Oklahoma, USA)
Beaver Head (Idaho, USA)
Brown Willy (Cornwall,UK)
Chinaman's Knob (Australia)
Climax (Colorado, USA)
Cunt (Spain)
Cunter (Switzerland)
Dikshit (India)
Dildo (Newfoundland, Canada)
Dong Rack (Thailand-Cambodia border)
Dongo (Congo - Democratic Republic)
Effin (Limerick, Ireland)
Fuku (Shensi, China)
Fukue (Honshu, Japan)
Fukui (Honshu, Japan)
Fukum (Yemen)
Hold With Hope (Greenland)
Intercourse (Pennsylvania, USA)
Lickey End (West Midlands, UK)
Little Dix Village (West Indies)
Lord Berkeley's Knob (Sutherland, Scotland)
Middle Intercourse Island (Australia)
Muff (Northern Ireland)
Nobber (Donegal, Ireland)
Pis Pis River (Nicaragua)
Sexmoan (Luzon, Philippines)
Seymen (Turkey)
Shafter (California, USA)
Shag Island (Indian Ocean)
Shitlingthorpe (Yorkshire, UK)
Tittybong (Australia)
Tong Fuk (Japan)
Turdo (Romania)
Twatt (Orkney, UK)
Wank (Germany)
Wankendorf (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Wankener (India)
Wankie (Zimbabwe)
Wankie Colliery (Zimbabwe)
Wanks River (Nicaragua)
Wankum (Germany)
Wet Beaver Creek (Australia)

Love,
Ananth


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Good Morning Ananth,
Where on earth do find such a wealth of information.
your last half dozen place names remind me of an occasion when I was visiting the company headquarters in Tuebingen South Germany and I was asked to pick up some UK visitors from the airport in Stuttgart and entertain them for the evening.within thirty seconds of meeting them I realised that they were upper crust and I would have to be on my best behaviour, no beer hall that evening!! I decided to take them to an upmarket restaurant on the Schwabische alb, on the way we passed a town boundary sign which read "Wankheim" (heim in German means home)The lady sitting beside me chuckled and said "what an interesting home life these people must have"The ice was broken and they enjoyed the beer hall.
Keep Smiling Razzer
John
 
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John,

You have a real knack of brightening my mornings
Smiler

Lorraine
 
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Dear John.
Thank you for your compliments and am glad you liked the contents. I love reading and surfing the net as most of my livihood depends on it after my tryst with cancer. I keep looking for things when I have time that I feel will make people smile and have a small laugh.

There is a great site where everything funny, rare, unbleivable and gret sayings, pictures etc.are available. Try a link to www.lifeisajoke.com - I am sure you will enjoy the site.

May I ask, John which was the Organization you worked for in Germany, as I too worked for many a year with Mercedes Benz and finally had to give up my job becsue of cancer coming my way. I was heading Sales and Marketing Indian subcontinent and then went on for overseeing production in Mexico and South Africa. However, those days, the best years of my life, regardless of all the business etc. I have are just not comprable to my work. I was the first employee of Mercedes Benz India and help set up and design our showrooms and sales network. I cannot describe my feelings regarding Mercedes as I still recieve the same kind of respect that I used to get when I was there withen the Organization.
With warm regards and wishing you a very happy christmas and a happy new year,
Ananth


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Good Morning good people,
Lorraine,
It makes me happy to think that I have brought a smile to your face,I have always had a sense of humour in fact I have often said that the last part of me to die will be my sense of humour.When you can laugh at yourself people laugh with you,but if you can't laugh at yourself people laugh at you.
Ananth,
I worked for Chemische Fabrik Tuebingen. The son of the founder was a friend of mine and he invited me to join the company in 1976, at that time there were about 200 employees, when I retired in 2001 there were many times that number and the company did business in more than 50 countries and had daughter companies in thirty.I don't claim credit for this growth but I suppose I did my bit. I worked mainly in UK and Ireland and for a while I was responsible for the business in Canada and part of the business in Yugoslavia.All of the technical staff had a particular specialist knowledge and were on call to travel anywhere in the world if that knowledge was required.
The original factory is at Bismarckstrasse 102 alongside the beautiful river Nekar,this is now a technical and admin centre and the manufacturing plant is situated in nearby Dusslingen. If you were connected with Mercedes I think you probably visited this area at some time, perhaps to see the castles at Hohenzollern and Sigmaringen.For a while Germany was my second home and I never tired of being there, I equated with the German way of life.
I enjoyed my working life but now I often wonder how I coped with the extensive travelling and long hours,perhaps my 71 years are making me lazy.
Keep Smiling Razzer
John
 
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John, John John .............

You must have competed with us - Allied Colloids / Ciba. Yikes
 
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Good afternoon Winnie,
I certainly did, I started as a competitor then from 1960 to 1976 I was a customer but after 76 a competitor again.
L.B.Holliday, Kosset carpets, Caird (Dundee)Ltd.and finally CHT.
LB's ? I hear you shriek and rightly so but surely I am allowed one mistake and this was it.What was your job at Low Moor?
Have a nice weekend
Keep Smiling Razzer
John
 
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Hello John,
Hope you enjoy this one too and I will send you some more of the facts soon. This is countdown so we go from 20 down to1.
20. The cucumber has left the salad.

19. I can see the gun of Navarone.

18. Someone tore down the wall, and your Pink Floyd is hanging out.

17. You've got Windows on your laptop.

16. Sailor Ned's trying to take a little shore leave.

15. Your soldier ain't so unknown now.

14. Quasimodo needs to go back in the tower and tend to his bells.

13. You need to bring your tray table to the upright and locked position.

12. Paging Mr. Johnson... Paging Mr. Johnson...

11. Your pod bay door is open, Hal.

10. Elvis Junior has LEFT the building!

9. Mini Me is making a break for the escape pod.

8. Ensign Hanes is reporting a hull breach on the lower deck, Sir!

7. The Buick is not all the way in the garage.

6. Dr. Kimble has escaped!

5. You've got your fly set for "Monica" instead of "Hillary."

4. Our next guest is someone who needs no introduction...

3. You've got a security breach at Los Pantalones.

2. I'm talking about Shaft, can you dig it?

And the number one way to tell someone their fly is unzipped...

1. I thought you were crazy, now I see your nuts.

John (or should I call you sir- as that was what I was taught and have always adhered by that), Your resume is most fascinating and I can well understand how you care for Germany as your second home. Its just as I consider Barcelona in Spain as mine. Its been seven long years since I travlled for the first time and its been a long journey - but have lasted out pretty well. Australia ( Melbourne) - Heathrow - Barcelona and will be flying back Barcelona- Heathrow and the New Delhi. I know this is my last trip so I had to make the trip to make up for some old mistakes I had made as youngster in my early twenties and then sort out a whole lot of legal problems with our shipping company in Australia - which I was given the total power of attorney. I had to make the required changes to ensure my wife Sonya and kids - Varun and Arjun have one of their homes there Down Under and have enough assets to live well. The same applied for Barcelona but on a different level all together - here is where I had made the mistakes and had to rectify them and am glad that I managed to do so.Now the next top back to India - where all my legal work has already been completed. Then its time to relax.
The auto expo starts in Delhi on the 21st. of January and its going to ba huge affair with all the top German cars showing all their top modeles. I have helped design the Mercedes Benz stall and hope fully will get a thank you note, though I really do not expect it as I really do care for the Oragnization.
I do hope I have the pleasure of meeting you one of these days as it will truly be wonderful to hear all about your work and experiences. As I mentioned your resume is fascinating and am sure I will learn much more about life if I do get that chance.
With lots of warm regards and as you mentioned keep smiling and keep retaining your sense of humor.
Ananth


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John - I won't hijack Ananth's thread.

See General Chat board
 
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Good evening Ananth,
Thank you for the latest batch and for the link(lifeisajoke)I spent a while on that site this afternoon.
I don't know where you get the idea of calling me sir,the only people who do that are the traffic police when they stop me with some strange notion that I have been driving too fast,which I would never do of course.I think the police the world over get these quaint notions which brings me to a policeman tale:-
I had to set up a plant in Gnilane in Macedonia about 15 years ago, and I was booked into an hotel in Skopje about an hour's drive away. On the second day I found that I could save 20 minutes drive by a short cut which was not shown on the map I used this each day afterwards.
One evening a policeman stopped me and chuntered on in Serbo Croat which I don't speak so I asked him if he spoke English, his blank look suggested that he didn't so I tried German again a blank look French provoked the same response so I showed him my passport, his face lit up and he said ah! Inglesey and waved me on.After about one week the interpreter arrived, a lady called Rabar, she looked rather like the one time Israeli premier Golda Meir only by comparison Golda was quite pretty.
As I turned off the main road on to my short cut she bellowed "mister Spencer STOP this is a military zone stop and they will shoot you. I don't know what you think but this didn't sound a very inviting proposition to me so I dove on.
Lunch that day looked dreadfull so I decided on a liquid lunch of local wine and Albanian brandy,Rabar objected to this saying the alcohol limit for driving was nul,nul,nul.On the way back to Skopje the policeman was there again and Rabar said now you are in trouble ,you will spend tonight in prison you don't think about me how will I get back to the hotel, I have to admit that her problem troubled me rather less than what I was facing. I stuck my passport against the window and shouted "Dobi Jenia"(I think that means goodbye)he grinned and waved me on. Years later Rabar was still telling people about this incident and how she could not understand how I got away with it, I never did tell her that I had met the same policeman a few days earlier.
Best Wishes for the festive season
Keep Smiling Razzer
John
 
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Dear John,
My father was in the army and we were taught to give respect to anyone who had achieved something in life and I am sure you have - by calling them Sir. Even though I have a lot of elder people working for me - they call me Sir and I havetried my best to get them to cll me by my name - but I have no reason why they refuse to. Seeing the mess in life you have been though and the misery I have - I think it is okay to call each other by our first namesSmiler

I am attaching some more jokes and hope you enjoy them just as much as the others and keep posting more amusing things that have taken place in your life as I will - all the twists and turns which has left a lot of people amazed.

I have just completed seven years of no eating or drinking orally( am on a peg tube) and the tracheostomy which the doctors luckily kept it in such a way that had the found any way to help me get back to eat - I would not ned it in any case. I have both my larynx intact but are usless as I breathe and talk to through my stoma. Well - I used to do that till a few months ago - when I created "An Orator" as I call it. Its made of high grad silicon a fits really well onto the stoma button and opens only inwards and has jsu enough space to exhale comfortably. The moment the air gets suck in - I have normal speech. The doctors are trying them out on other patients and so far have been pretty happy with its progress. The imported robotic ones are not just expensive but have to be imported into the the Country - and its all upto the importer when he wants to imprt it. The normal price for the robotic one is about 300 US$ and all that mine costs in 50 cents- which include packing , distribution and the profit margin!
I am truly looking for more posts from your end.
With warm regards from Barcelona at the moment,
Ananth


WALKING CORPSE SYNDROME
Deluded patients think they have lost body parts or their souls, and often believe they have died. Also called Cotard's syndrome, the mental disease has been found in people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

WEREWOLF SYNDROME
Two year-old Abys DeJesus grew dark, hairy patches on her face. Doctors said she has a condition known as Human Werewolf Syndrome. The disease is called werewolf syndrome because people with it look like werewolves - except without the sharp teeth and claws. In Mexico, a large family of men had hair that covered their whole face and body. Two brothers were even offered a role in the X-Files TV series, but they turned the offer down.

BLUE SKIN DISORDER
A large family simply known as the "blue people" lived in the hills around Troublesome Creek in Kentucky until the 1960s. They were the blue Fugates. Most of them lived past the age of 80, with no serious illness - just blue skin. The trait was passed on from generation to generation. People with this condition have blue, plum, indigo or almost purple skin.

ALICE-IN-WONDERLAND SYNDROME
A patient's sense of time, space and body image are distorted. People may appear tiny or patients may feel that part of their body shape or size has been altered.

VAMPIRE DISEASE
There are people out there who go to great lengths to avoid the sun. If they are caught in the sun, their skin will blister. Some of them have pain and blistering as soon as the sun touches their skin. Ok, so they're not actually vampires. They don't drink blood and sleep in coffins, but they do suffer from a rare disease that has vampire-like symptoms.

JUMPING FRENCHMAN DISORDER
The main characteristic is that patients are extremely startled by an unexpected noise or sight. It's not just twitching when someone sneaks up behind you. Patients with this disorder flail their arms, cry out and repeat words. First identified in some of Maine's lumberjacks of French-Canadian origin, the odd reflex has been identified in other parts of the world, too.

ELEPHANTITIS
Lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis, is best known from dramatic photos of people with grossly enlarged or swollen arms and legs. The disease is caused by parasitic worms, including Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, and B. timori, all transmitted by mosquitoes. Lymphatic filariasis currently affects 120 million people worldwide, and 40 million of these people have serious disease. When an infected female mosquito bites a person, she may inject the worm larvae, called microfilariae, into the blood. The microfilariae reproduce and spread throughout the bloodstream, where they can live for many years. Often disease symptoms do not appear until years after infection. As the parasites accumulate in the blood vessels, they can restrict circulation and cause fluid to build up in surrounding tissues. The most common, visible signs of infection are excessively enlarged arms, legs, genitalia, and breasts.


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Ananth,

What about Alien Hand syndrome?

Lorraine
 
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Dear Lorraine,
I was just coming to that one... but I guess now that you know about it - I might as well topics so that I get you all to really have fun reading through these posts. As they say
"laughter is the best form to live with" ( Imade up that one!!!SmilerSmilerSmiler)
Tons of love xxx and hugs,
Ananth


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Dear Lorraine,
You too should get into the wbsite I mentioned to John and have a great time at reading some things that we never ever thought about. I am sure you will love it.
As John puts it : "keep smiling"Smiler
From my side its as usual - tons of love, xxx and hugs,
Ananth


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