http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments Comments for the list 'P is for...' http://www.wordnik.com http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments I'm going away now. *shields face* Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:35:20 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments The following word shall totally upstage my suggestion of "placenta" on this list. <br /><br />Behold: <a href="/words/Placentophagy">Placentophagy</a>: The eating of the placenta. Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:28:00 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments *googles*<br />*comes back 30 seconds later*<br />Oh. My. Gosh. Placenta PIZZA? I think I've heard quite enough. Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:16:39 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments And uselessness: kidneys are great! Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:08:11 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments uselessness--- Sorry to keep recommending deviating from this site but you have GOT to google "placenta recipes". I want your reaction. It's hilarious how all these sites pop up being completely serious, and it's gonna be especially shocking to you since you just found out about the practice (of eating it) 3 minutes ago. Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:08:09 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments I don't know anyone who's eaten placenta, but it's definitely been trendy among a certain set of people, since the 60's presumably. I think the theory is that because animals do it (since animals aren't choosy where they get their vitamins), it's in some way "natural". <br /> <br />I think it's slightly loopy, but who knows? It could be yummy stuff. Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:07:33 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments Gross! I've never heard of post-birth placenta use in any capacity, burial or otherwise. But eating it? Do those people know the function of the placenta? It's like eating, um, kidneys and a bladder, or something. Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:00:07 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments Anyone familiar with the tradition of gathering family and friends to eat the placenta (in a stew) as a weirdo celebration of the birth of a baby, (that one's for you, yarb)? Personally, I don't have the stomach for eating it, (I don't even have the guts to try my own breast milk) so we had decided to bury the placenta, HOWEVER, now I'm thinking I might wanna put it in my hair. ...Naw, I'll just bury it. <br /> Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:51:26 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments Good point, sionnach. But don't you agree that <a href="/words/marsupial">marsupial</a> would make a charming middle name? <br /> <br />Placenta Marsupial Yarbsdottir. Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:15:45 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments "I think Placenta would make a lovely name for a girl."<br /><br />If, however, she was a <a href="/words/bouncing baby girl">bouncing baby girl</a>, Placenta would seem a little inapposite, because of the subliminal <a href="/words/macropodine">macropodine</a> (and thus non-placental) connotations of the word 'bouncing'. You'd have to call her Katy.<br /><br />Or possibly Sheila. Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:31:34 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments I'll have to try it. Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:04:12 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments well, i think it's rabbit..comes in a bottle you can buy at your local hair supply store i think. fulla' nutrients and the like. or so she says... ;) Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:01:04 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments "my roommate puts rabbit placenta in her hair.." <br /> <br />WHAT?! <br /> <br />n.b. I think Placenta would make a lovely name for a girl. Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:57:21 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments oh. well, that's cool, it's good fertilizer, right? my roommate puts rabbit placenta in her hair. but it kinda grosses me out when she does that. lil'bit. Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:29:21 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments Well, if you don't like placentas, then I won't invite you over, as we have one of them in our freezer till we get a tree to plant over it this spring. <br /> Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:07:47 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments aw, thanks! <a href="/words/placenta">placenta</a> is actually one of the few p-words that i dislike... but definitely the others! Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:56:17 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments Very cool. How about: Pegasus, placenta, pretentious, and precocious? <br /><br /> Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:49:07 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/p-is-for#comments