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About your health issues. I will give you a free diagnosis and a blank prescription pad!

(Disclaimer: Prescription pads are only post-it notes. Dr. Mantis is not a real doctor, but is a nurse. Yes, I have heard all the Gaylord Focker and "Murse" jokes)

 
Is it true that swallowed chewing gum goes into your appendix and stays there for seven years. Come to think of it, why to people have an appendix to begin with?

 
Come to think of it, why to people have an appendix to begin with?
Your appendix is a storage place for bacteria. Your body requires bacteria to help digest the food you eat. When you have an illness, like diarrhea or some gut-busting malady, your intestines can get flushed of good bacteria. The appendix stores that bacteria to replenish what you've lost.

 
Come to think of it, why to people have an appendix to begin with?
Your appendix is a storage place for bacteria. Your body requires bacteria to help digest the food you eat. When you have an illness, like diarrhea or some gut-busting malady, your intestines can get flushed of good bacteria. The appendix stores that bacteria to replenish what you've lost.
Way to steal my thunder
Bacteria? Sounds like a bunch of sh#t to me.

 
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