Article: 10415 of alt.sysadmin.recovery From: logan@cs.utexas.edu (Logan Shaw) Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery Subject: Re: total insanity Date: 12 Jun 2001 20:10:21 -0500 Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin Lines: 41 Sender: logan@charity.cs.utexas.edu Approved: is it worth the time, is it worth the price? do you see yourself in the white hot light? then eat the spicy mustard tonight Message-ID: <9g6eht$es6$1@charity.cs.utexas.edu> References: <87lmmzeivs.fsf@tzadkiel.efn.org> <87d78becyg.fsf@tzadkiel.efn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: charity.cs.utexas.edu X-Trace: news.cs.utexas.edu 992394622 2212 128.83.144.122 (13 Jun 2001 01:10:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@cs.utexas.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 01:10:22 +0000 (UTC) Path: news.meer.net!sea-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen.news.verio.net!dfw-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!news.cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail Xref: archive.mv.meer.net alt.sysadmin.recovery:10415 In article , Curt Fennell wrote: >Not being a spicy-food junkie, I am mystified by the allure of the >deliberate self-torture. Isn't life painful enough? > >I once went to a sushi[0] lunch with my ex-boss ( != PHB) and watched >him carefully consume the raw stuff with appropriate amounts of >wasabi. As his face turned beet-red and tears streamed out of his >eyes, he managed to choke out the words "Boy, that's good!". > >???? Hot enough stuff will cause your body to release endorphins as a way of dealing with the pain. When you think about that, consider that the term "endorphine" is a combination of the words "endogenous" and "morphine", meaning "morphine that is produced inside the organism". Personally, I never experienced it until 3 or 4 years ago when I put a little more of that Chinese spicy mustard on my eggroll than I had intended. Over the course of just a few seconds, I went through several stages: 1. "Yow, I put more mustard than I thought." 2. "Hmm, this sensation is not leveling off at all, and I am rapidly approaching the maximum I can stand. This may not be good." 3. "I am well past the maximum. I think I am going to die or be seriously injured. I don't know how to handle this. HELLLLP!!" 4. "Ooh. Ooooooh. Aaah. So *this* is what they're talking about." 5. "Hey, the pain is subsiding, and I may live, and... MORE MUSTARD!" Should you ever be curious about the experience, I recommend the Chinese spicy mustard because it achieves the desired effect, and the spiciness goes away on its own very quickly afterwards. (You don't have to drink glasses of milk or whatever.) - Logan -- my your his her our their _its_ I'm you're he's she's we're they're _it's_