i thinkl deans new invention will be something to make short people taller
they are called platform shoes, ahahah, but if you are a guy, you are SOl
hes goign to make short people taller. MY HERO!!! lol.
What about us tall people?
Maybe he’ll just make tall people shorter, so the average makes short people SEEM taller.
That tricky Dean, always with an Ace up his denim sleeve
There is one way i know of that will make me shorter (i am 6’10") and that requires an axe- that would also hurt alittle
Mike:
That’s why being short is better than being tall – short people can be taller (with the aide of stilts or something), but tall people can’t be made shorter (without a lot of pain involved)
- Katie
There is a way to make short people taller using surgery. It’s only used for midget sized people only.
*Originally posted by wysiswyg *
**There is a way to make short people taller using surgery. It’s only used for midget sized people only. **
Not always. The technique I think you’re talking about was done experimantally at Stanford for children with limbs that wouldn’t grow as fast as the others due to breakage or congenital defects.
I know because I was one ofthe early ones to get it done back in the seventies. In the early days, they used a one sided approach with a little corkscrew mechanism called the Wagner device that was attatched from the outside, all the way into the bone with long pins. It involved breaking the bone and slowly separating the two pieces in munute amounts over thirty days along with constant stretching of the surrounding tissues. When the separation was complete, and they got the extra inch or two of length they wanted, a bone graft would be done from another location in the body to fill the gap.
Ten years or so later they used a method that went into the limb from several different angles and a device that encircled the entire thing. They used it in the movie, GATTACA if you want a look.
Very painful. Think twice before you do it.
Short people are not short people. That term is politicaly incorrect.
They are Vertically Challenged people.
Yeah, well all I know is that this “vertically challenged” girl makes Mr. Kamen look like a giant when she stands next to him.
So much for stretching the vertically challenged ones. All anyone has to do is give me a call to look tall.
*Originally posted by Katie Reynolds *
**Mike:That’s why being short is better than being tall – short people can be taller (with the aide of stilts or something), but tall people can’t be made shorter (without a lot of pain involved)
- Katie
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Well us tall people could be shorter by just walking on our knees all day. I’m only like 5" when I do that.
Maybe instead of making people taller or shorter, he will make then skinnier or fatter… what a concept!!!
I could go for being skinnier
if he makes short people taller than soon we’ll have dumb people smarter, and slow people faster, but since it’s alot easier to go the opposite ways (taller to shorter, smarter to stupid, fast to slow) than soon we will live in a harrison bergeron world.
*Originally posted by “Big Mike” *
**There is one way i know of that will make me shorter (i am 6’10") and that requires an axe- that would also hurt alittle **
There is surgury to make tall people shorter which involves removing part of the center of the thigh and calf bones and letting them grow back together at a shorter length. I would think someone would have to be a bit deranged to have this done, but I’ve heard that there are a few orthopedic surgeons who specialize in these operations.
I’d rather be tall over short any day. I wish i was tall
Plus heels hurt way to much…lol
Hermione
*Originally posted by Mike Martus *
**Short people are not short people. That term is politicaly incorrect.They are Vertically Challenged people. **
Finally, someone who agrees with me!
Oh, and Dean already has something that makes short people taller. It’s called the I-Bot. Ever notice how Dean is at least 6 feet tall sitting when he’s on that?
What is this? Short people becoming tall? Tall people becoming short!? Fat people becoming skinny? Skinny people becoming fat!? I’ll tell you what it is… it’s cats and mice living together! IT’S MASS HYSTERIA!
It’ll make me grow?!?!??! /me buys 20 segways