Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Hey Doc, I got a tree in my lung


This piece of news in today's newspaper triggered my memory buds and took me back to my childhood. I still remember my grandma joking about a tree growing inside the body whenever we accidentally swallowed the seeds of fruits like watermelon, oranges, sweetlime etc,. I could not believe that it has actually happened in a man's body which was found by some Russian surgeons. They found a small fir tree growing in a man's lung after he complained of chest pain and excessive coughing. I could not resist blogging about this topic.

On a serious thought, it should be very painful for the person. My wishes are with that guy for a speedy recovery. 

But on a lighter note, imagine that I swallowed orange seeds accidentally and an orange tree grew inside my body. Let's say it's a bonsai plant (try to understand yaar...space constraints :-)). A fully grown orange tree starts giving fruits and ripe oranges start popping out of my mouth, nose, ears and any other possible outlets :-). I'm trying to imagine the humourous situations that can arise. 

Friends, let's play this game of imagination and pour out our funny, humourous ideas. Start pouring in.....

Waiting to see the various innovative, witty ideas.........

3 comments:

Deeps said...

God, my parents were actually right, hehehehe :)). Looks like the man not only breathed in a seed, must have breathed lots of dirt and manure also (for the tree to grow). Wonder how he managed to water the tree :-D.

Poor guy, he must be going crazy, while we are having fun..

Shakthi said...

This is very interesting . Each member of a household can swallow on e vegetable seed and we can do away with grocery shopping !! Think of this , every street gets together and decides what internal trees to grow !! Each street hosts its own stomach garden and there are shows every week with x-rays !!
New passtime for humanity !!
Sus the pihlosopher strikes again !!

Susmitha said...

Deeps,

I'm not sure about the manure and water. Probably the food and water he consumed was good enough for it to grow. But no hard feeling intended in this fun.

Shakthi,

Nice thought. Good cost cutting strategy. Infact companies can think of adopting this technique. They can even hire people for growing stuff. That way they create more employment opportunities :). What do you say?