What organs do you think are wildly overrated?

[Stuckinagroove]

As chyme floods into the small intestine from the stomach, two things must happen:

acid must be quickly and efficiently neutralized to prevent damage to the duodenal mucosa
macromolecular nutrients - proteins, fats and starch - must be broken down much further before their constitutents can be absorbed through the mucosa into blood

The pancreas plays a vital role in accomplishing both of these objectives, so vital in fact that insufficient exocrine secretion by the pancreas leads to starvation, even if the animal is consuming adequate quantities of high quality food.

In addition to its role as an exocrine organ, the pancreas is also an endocrine organ and the major hormones it secretes - insulin and glucagon - play a vital role in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. They are, for example, absolutely necessary for maintaining normal blood concentrations of glucose.

As you can see, it's the Joe Maneri of organs; clearly UNDERrated....

[graypencil]

I'm impressed !

are "chyme floods" that gurgling noise you hear after dinner while watching TV?

I thought they were those noises that came outta bell towers at Christmas time

[Jazzooo]

Portland.

[walto]

LOL

[steve(thelil)]

prostate

[Gary Sisco]

Clinton's.


"Try to remember
the president's member..."

[Enforcer]

The spleen is a joke. I doubt it will survive another 20 or 30 years of evolution. The hype surrounding that thing is just ridiculous.

[Rob C]

Ali G interviews C. Everett Koop:

G: Why don't we replace some of the more--with full respect--BORING organs, with like, a portable CD player and a booming sound system? That would be wicked, man!

C: Yes. it would be "wicked". Another word for it would be "impossible".

G: Well, what about like a portable phone? Surely there's room for one of them in there.

C: [Exasperated.] Do you know what would happen to you if you tried to implant a cell phone in your body?

G: Well, I'd be able to answer calls.

[patricia]

Originally Posted by Larry Nagel

The spleen is a joke. I doubt it will survive another 20 or 30 years of evolution. The hype surrounding that thing is just ridiculous.

The spleen may very well be a joke, but rupture yours and see how fast it can kill ya.

[Enforcer]

patricia,

I may be reading this wrong, but did you just threaten to kill me by ripping my spleen right out of my body with your bare hand?

Already filling out the PPO paperwork,
Larry

[graypencil]

actually, Farfisas were pleasantly cheezoidy musical kitschy ..

but :

there WAS a vas deferens between a Wurlitzer and a B-3 ..

grone ...

[Dr Dave]

This ain't no disco...

[patricia]

Originally Posted by Larry Nagel

patricia,

I may be reading this wrong, but did you just threaten to kill me by ripping my spleen right out of my body with your bare hand?

Already filling out the PPO paperwork,
Larry

Why does that suddenly sound like a singularly delicious idea??
Rest easy Larry. No. But, ruptured spleens do kill people, just as a ruptured appendix will. Seems like kind of a cruel joke, doesn't it, that an organ which performs no useful function is just sitting there.............waiting to do you in.

How about wisdom teeth?? Far from indicating any kind of super intelligence, yanking them out, routinely, has provided many a dentist with a very nice new media room in their houses. What was God thinking?? Did we have larger jaws in pre-historic times??

[Enforcer]

Originally Posted by patricia

What was God thinking?? Did we have larger jaws in pre-historic times??

He may have mistakenly used my ex's mouth as a template, patricia.

[Gary Sisco]

They had more things to jaw about in those days.