Parasite Pals - supremely weird kitsch
February 5th, 2008
Feast your eyes on the sheer weirdness that is Parasite Pals Super Fun Site - a website devoted to one slightly unclean girl and her menagerie of loving parasites. Upon finding out that she has been inhabited by a headlouse, a tapeworm, an eyebrow eyelash mite and a bed bug, Holly refuses the doctor’s advice to bathe in pure TCP and instead decides to make friends with her new-found hijackers. As the site says:
“some irritation she finds with them, but much love and fun is to be shared!”
Quite. Aside from the general madness of marketing cutesy plush toys and stickers modelled on human parasites (hey, it’s not a new idea), the biology on display here is pretty appalling. I’m not going to be pedantic and point out that head lice don’t really use pneumatic drills. I am, however, going to point out that tapeworms do not live in your stomach, but in your intestinal tract. I’m also going to point out that bed bugs live in beds, not on humans, but Parasite Pals Super Fun Site is a little bit vague on where exactly Zzeezz the bed bug lives. I guess Holly should be happy she doesn’t have body louse too, what with their capacity to transmit trench fever. With friends like these, Holly will never need any other friends - and never have any either!
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6 Comments
1. Ian | February 5th, 2008 at 10:59 am
It’s an eyelash mite, not an eyebrow mite. Also, learn to spell kitsch, bitsch!
2. Frank the SciencePunk | February 5th, 2008 at 11:06 am
LOL!
3. jdc325 | February 5th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Nice work Ian, but you missed meagerie/menagerie.
4. Frank the SciencePunk | February 5th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Serves me right for always striving to blog in the Ballmer Peak.
5. Science Etcetera Mercuryd&hellip | February 6th, 2008 at 10:03 am
[...] Holly Hostess won’t take her meds to kill off all the parasites she has living on her because she’s a lonely girl and they are her only friends. That’s the story behind the Parasite Pals Kids Site. Pardon me while I curl up in a corner and suck my thumb until the world gets less disturbing. (HT Science Punk) [...]
6. ryansomma.com » Blo&hellip | March 30th, 2008 at 4:24 am
[...] Holly Hostess won’t take her meds to kill off all the parasites she has living on her because she’s a lonely girl and they are her only friends. That’s the story behind the Parasite Pals Kids Site. Pardon me while I curl up in a corner and suck my thumb until the world gets less disturbing. (HT Science Punk) [...]
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