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Schneier on SecurityA blog covering security and security technology. « Interview with Me | Main | Risk Mismanagement on Wall Street » January 23, 2009Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Teething ToyFrom Japan. Posted on January 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM • 9 Comments To receive these entries once a month by e-mail, sign up for the Crypto-Gram Newsletter. I really like that it says, "puuu!" when you push on the top end. Posted by: Curt Sampson at January 23, 2009 10:02 PM Wow... I wonder what Freud would say about and its possible relation to certain genre of japanese animation..... Posted by: John Waters at January 24, 2009 2:09 AM @ Beta, "Why not just use a real piece of calamari?" I guess the simple answer is "it's not chewy enough". I know hard to belive... However in Mexico a popular teething dummy given to little ones are Jalapeno Chillies... Mad as it sounds it works in the same sort of way as Pepermint or clove oil does by both encoraging the bodies natural pain killers and by displacment/distraction. Another natural teething chew is the stems of salad Lettuce plants. They contain lactucarium, a chemical similar to laudanum which is an effective pain killer. I've not tried it but I'm told the best stem for this is from the Romane red Lettice. Oh and there are other natural pain killers "asprin" for instance is common in many plants and was originaly extracted from willow bark. Apparently if you have a house plant that is not doing to well adding anl asprin to its water helps perk it up... Posted by: Clive Robinson at January 24, 2009 3:36 AM Darn! I was hoping it'd be a bit more exotic --- a teething toy for your developing pet squid. Or would that have been a "beaking" toy???? Posted by: RonK at January 25, 2009 5:25 AM Post a comment
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