Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 09, 2014
Transcript:
Researchers at Oxford University have discovered that sounds can affect your taste buds- high pitches increase sweetness, and low tones bitterness. People with the rare condition Musical Ear Syndrome think they hear music playing when it's not! Miniature guillotine toys that decapitated dolls were popular with children during the French Revolution!
stlmaddog5 about 10 years ago
I had a working, miniature guillotine that I built when I was young.
Templo S.U.D. about 10 years ago
Isn’t having MES another way of saying “a tune stuck in your head”?
Brown Leghorn about 10 years ago
How many of them lost fingers in that thing, where was the French product safety people?
Peam Premium Member about 10 years ago
People with messier syndrome have been following dogs too closely.
Space_cat about 10 years ago
That explains why every time I hear even a tiny fragment of a Justin Bieber “song” (to call it music is a stretch) I taste vomit and garbage!
Petemejia77 about 10 years ago
Thought the guillotine kid was a Garbage Pail Kid!
Stephen Gilberg about 10 years ago
Dr. Oliver Sacks described two cases of MES. Both got cured with surgery, but one arranged for the option to turn the music on and off in her head at will. Sometimes it was “loud” enough that people had to shout.
Stephen Gilberg about 10 years ago
As a synesthetic, I kind of associate sounds and flavors, but I never imagined that bit about high and low tones.
Kali39 about 10 years ago
Dr Clayton Forrester (of MST3K, natch) once invented a mini guillotine to chop the heads off chocolate bunnies (I know, wrong holiday). The ’bots were horrified.SERVO (crying): What about the pardon for Fannie Farmer!CROW (crying): Yeah, his only crime was being delicious!
spaced man spliff about 10 years ago
So when I hear ethnic music I can taste the foods of that culture. I feel like a burger and malt, so I’ll put on some 50s Rock and Roll !!
Saucy1121 Premium Member about 10 years ago
Musical ear syndrome is a complex form of tinnitus (ringing in the ears). The brain takes the sound and makes a song from it.
Kali39 about 10 years ago
But I don’t think THAT Clayton Forrester invented a mini-guillotine.