ok, so a friend is going to burn me Medea, and it reminded me of this Maria Callas thing that has haunted me for ages. Is there any truth at the rumour that she swallowed a tapeworm in order to get thin?? people always mention that when they talk about her. I think that is so gross, it's beyond me how can anyone do that, is it true???

If you go back a few decades, this sort of thing was actually commercially advertised, i remember seeing some 40's style box for tape worm ovules.

the fuck is up with that.. maybe they finally discovered the side effects of having hugeass.... bugs crawling out your ass and stuff.

OMG ARE YOU SERIOUS??????????? I can't believe this!!!!!!!!!!!!!! really?? where did you see that?

maybe you saw an hoax.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/vanities/tapeworm.htm

No one has been singled out by this rumor more than opera singer Maria Callas (1923-1977). Callas was afflicted with tapeworms, but not due to any "lose weight quick!" reducing scheme. She was overly fond of steak and liver tartare, raw meat dishes prone to contamination. In her case, the rumor about tapeworm diet pills collided with her real-life condition, resulting in her being misidentified as someone who used such a product. Compounding the error, respected newspapers passed along fatuous statements about her and this rumor as if they were revealed fact. (Example: "Maria Callas, whose desperation to lose weight led her to swallow a tapeworm, shed several stones over a matter of months and never regained her former power," trumpeted The Guardian in 1992.) Some poorly-researched biographies have even claimed this as truth, falling for the myth instead of the reality.

It's interesting to note many accounts of the Callas rumor spitefully and self-righteously conclude with the news that her indulgence in this ill-advised tapeworm diet fad caused her to lose the ability to hit the high notes. Such flourishes remind us that vanity rumors are often employed to humble women who aren't much liked or are seen as having attained high positions they did not merit. In Callas' case, her well-publicized, long-standing liaison with Aristotle Onassis caused some to belittle her talent by ascribing her success to her having a powerful benefactor; others wanted to find additional justification for disliking a woman who openly consorted with a (then) married man.

Maria was such a diva

It was on some documentary where i guy also swallowed an ovule and a few weeks later, took the anti-dote pill things and was like "look at the tapeworm i shat out"

yeh that show was odd... i just found it hilarious that they advertised tapeworms like they'd try sell coca cola nowadays. i fucking wish i could find the box thing they had on the show

You're gross compared with the beautiful Maria Callas.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/w...ments/2998/P0/

check some of the comments there haha

yes she was. but am i the only one who thinks she was a bit ugly? *hides under desk*

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then she dances skirt swaying in the half-light she dances white blossom in the black sky
'I need new clothes', she thinks, 'new skin, a mind I can bear to live in'.

i think this was a doco about parasites. i saw it, too.
i haven't eaten fettucine since.

omg was it the one where a hookworm thingy when up a guys penis too?

that was so disturbing. lesson learnt, never go to south america.

I wouldn't say ugly....just plain, nothing special

yes! and the big old fly larvae was in that woman's scalp like a boil that moved :vomit: i still have bad dreams about that. it could happen to you!

and the worm thing you speak of is attracted to urea...so much shit has urea in it. my footcream, for example :rojectilevomit:

whenever i hear/see the words maria callas, i got rem stuck in my head.
which is very nice

i do too.
but it's because the letter stipe was writing that inspired that song (ebow the letter) was to me.
we keep in touch and i wrote to him about feeling lonely and listening to him and patti smith. and he wrote back about what patti smith meant to him growing up. and then patti ended up singing on the song. and it was all because of me in a way.

are you the person who thinks courtney writes you songs, too?

of course.

are you the real cleetus

no

i never said that.
shirley manson stole a poem i posted on the garbage messageboard and used it for the song "cup of coffee".
i wrote it during my short-lived unicorn phase, so guess who it's about...
not that i'm bragging, as the song sucks. but regardless of what shirley the vulture thinks, the song owes a debt to me smoking winstons because i heard they were cobain's brand and confusing depression over loss with depression over the rain.