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ABC World News Now

Hi, the picture you added of Aaron Brown and Elmo has a date of 1996 across the front. Are you sure this is not Mark Mullen? The woman appears to be Thalia Assuras. Can you please double check this? H2O 06:56, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

  Hey, H2O. How's that whole 118.5 degree bondage thing going? [grin] 

  (Offended readers are uncircumcised savages who should take remedial high school chemistry before whining.)

  I have no idea about the woman or the exact date. But I can assure you it's Anderson Cooper. Nevermind the voice on the tape, just look at him! 

  Lawrence

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Speech synthesis up for FAR

Hi there,

You're listed in the edit history of this article. I wonder whether you're able to help bring it up to FA standard again? Please see WP:FAR#Speech_synthesis.

Tony 06:55, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Holmes on Homes

Hi Yiddophile. Sorry but there was already an article on Holmes on Homes. - Cybergoth 05:39, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

• Heya Cybergoth! Fellow (former) Torontonian, miss it every day that I'm away. Yah, discovered the Holmes on Homes site after posting. Big fan, was amazed that there wasn't a page for him (or that I didn't find it!). I work at Home Depot while paying my way through an engineering degree, so I get to see all the crappy wanna-be contractors coming in to see us. It's incredibly tough to dissuade them from doing things like connecting water heater gas lines with vinyl tubing... without reminding them that they're (obviously) unlicensed to do the work they've undertaken. (No wonder I drink.)

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• Yah, okay, GIFs are lossless, PNGs are lossless. I can therefore convert GIF-->PNG losslessly. And I hate Unisys at least as much as the average intelligent circumcised man. All compressed line art/iconical images I've added to Wikipedia have been PNGs, and most of my internal use is PNG. My only two or three uploaded GIFs have been trademarks or flagship products, uploaded exactly as found on websites, with a full explanation.

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Medical research on circumcision methods

I'm new to Wikipedia, so pardon my inevitable breaches of protocol. I'm a medical student doing research on the particular method of circumcision (the Gomco clamp). We are looking at its suitability for adult circumcision. It is the most common method of circumcision in the United States, but they are almost all done on infants. We are looking for information on this method for adults.

In your talk page, you mentioned that you might be willing to educate people about this. Since you added content to the Gomco clamp page, you may be able to help us. We are trying to find any information we can on the use of this method for adults.

I take your privacy very seriously. If you are inclined to give me information, we will make sure that it is all of the safeguards, including anonymity, that would make you feel comfortable.

I don't know if we're allowed to leave email addresses or how we can communicate further, so I hope you respond to this post and tell me how! Iluzufuzuli (talk) 05:40, 22 January 2012 (UTC)iluzufuzuli

--- Reply back here, I will reply sooner or later. I was circumcised at 22 years of age, with a Gomco clamp. No railroad-track stitch scars like most adult circs, just a neat brown ring I share with most American and Canadian men who were lucky enough to have it done at birth - that's why I demanded the doctor get a Gomco clamp. (This informed and well-researched patient paid the doctor over $400 to get a clamp in my size!)

The Gomco clamp is, I think, the best way to circumcise a child or an adult. The incision line is neat and clean, rather than some forceps-guided massacre. I think the fact the incision line is so clean and straight helps healing a lot. The healing was nothing - the doctor who did it is a personal friend who did it under the table and he was completely freaked out when I *wasn't* begging for ice packs, but was, in front of him, dancing on a speaker at a nightclub... only 28 hours after being circumcised.

In infants, there are more choices. The Mogen is supposed to be really quick and relatively painless, but the cosmetic results aren't great. The Plastibell gives ideal cosmetic results (often no visible scar, just the color change between the inner and outer layer of preputial skin), but it has a bad complication rate, often doesn't seem to take off enough loose skin, and it's not available in adult sizes.

I am a complete proponent of routine infant circumcision (I wish it had been done to me at birth, so I didn't have to deal with the problems of that horrible wad of useless skin on the end of my dick), but I have one caveat: anesthetic must be used. There is no reason, in this day and age, for a newborn's circumcision to be painful.

Yeah, I have a brown ring Gomco mark around my dick. It's neat, it's clean, and I cannot claim to be uncircumcised; the Gomco's mark is obvious. Just find an American porn movie. That's what I look like now.

I like everything about being circumcised better. It's the same, only better.

I justify that by pointing out that when man invented clothing, the foreskin's function was replaced by cotton.

And yes, that's me getting circumcised in the Wikipedia page on the Gomco clamp.

yiddophile@yahoo.com is an alternate e-mail address, or look me up on Facebook using that address. Yiddophile (talk) 16:02, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

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