[Sca-cooks] Perioid versus period

[Bill Fisher]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:59:47 -0800, Laura C. Minnick <lcm at jeffnet.org> wrote:

> :-)
> My mom says that as a baby, I liked carrots. A lot. Being that she was
> really young and didn't know any better, she fed me carrots. A LOT.
> 
> And so I turned orange.
> 
> I have to wonder what the doctor though when she took me in...
> 
> 'Lainie
> (who apparently came by her color choices early!)

Carotenosis, lovely stuff.  I had it when I was a teenager, when I would
eat three raw carrots a day, and then turned orange two months later.

No discomfort, you just look like an oompa loompa.

Cadoc
(doopity doo)

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