Take heed

[SteveGlo]

Falcarinol (possible anti-cancer ingredient in carrots) is toxic in large amounts but to obtain a lethal dose you would have to eat 882lb (400kg) of carrots at once"

Please be careful folks and keep your intake down to no more than 100kg of carrots a day.

 

[craigsboyd]

<slowly and gently places the half eaten carrot he is holding down on the table and begins to back away from it>

http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com

 

[BocaBurger]

No wonder there are so many fat dead rabbits in laboratories.



BocaBurger
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[SF0751]

Not only that, but your skin will turn orange as well. From The Straight Dope:

Dear Cecil:
Is it true that by eating almost nothing but carrots and drinking carrot juice you can turn orangish in color? Is there a medical name for this? --Tom B., Chicago

Dear Tom:
Yup. "Carotene" is the red or yellow hydrocarbon pigment that gives carrots their characteristic cheery color, and also helps to brighten up egg yolks, sweet potatoes, and a variety of leafy vegetables. Intemperate carrot consumption will make the carotene build up in your bloodstream. Before you know it, your skin will take on a sickly yellow pallor, a grisly condition that superficially resembles jaundice. You've got carotenosis, you poor sap, and good luck to you. Fatal cases are rare, if that's any comfort: a London woman died from the disease in 1972, but she had to work at it.
--CECIL ADAMS


Susan
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." - Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)

 

[ESquared]

Wordplay?

 

[Dimandja]

>Not only that, but your skin will turn orange as well.

You think this is what MJ eats?

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[RCorrigan]

Or even Dale Winton !!!!

If you've never heard of him click

http://www.campaschristmas.com/Really Camp/DW.htm

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[SF0751]

errrr..... nope. Unless someone can think of something regarding carrots, carats, and karats.




Susan
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." - Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)

 

[RCorrigan]

How many nasty side-effects can you come up with using only the letters F A L C A R I N O L ?

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[tsdragon]

Best I could come up with:

[white]acorn fail (and slight variations)
nail farc (whatever that is)[/white]

Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[CajunCenturion]

I'm wondering what you consider a "nasty side-effect"

[white]rainfall could be nasty in some circumstances.  There are probably over 100 words that can be derived from those letters, but not sure how many would be nasty side-effects.[/white]

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[ESquared]

cranial flo
carnal foil
falcon lair
final coral
acorn flail

 

[tsdragon]

With no E it's hard to come up with some good side-effects. The two A's don't help much.

Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[BocaBurger]

The leading cause of cancer in rats is











Wait for it....









Scientists!


BocaBurger
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[AngelB]

Slightly dodgy side effect:

anal frolic

Gez



Sorry, did I say something wrong? Pardon me for breathing which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it Oh God I'm so depressed - Marvin, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 

[SilentAiche]

F A L C A R I N O L

fall noir (tripping in the dark), AFLAC loin (supplemental insurance for your privates), AFLAC roil (supplemental insurance dispute), laf noir (side-splitting dark humor?), loin rafl (tickets are a dollar; illegal in most states), roil clan (the king and them), Arol Flin (old time movie actor, sort of), corn flail (?), no air, Loni (Burt Reynolds' former side effect), coin fall (hole in pocket), Cain (renders one unAbel), Cairo laf (suddenly find all Egyptian jokes funny), carnifall (tripping drunk at Mardi Gras), AOL

So what if they weren't all side effects...

Tim