Quotes by Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

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Where do you find a stomach on a Thursday afternoon in Reno? "Chinatown?" suggests someone. "Costco?" "Butcher Boys." Tr — Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
I challenge you to find a more innocuous sentence containing the words sperm, suction, swallow, and any homophone of sea — Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
think of it.' said Robert Rosenbluth, a doctor whose acquaintance i made at the start of this book. 'no engineer could d — Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
The slang for the rectum is "prison wallet". — Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
The simplest strategy for bouts of noxious flatus is to not care. Or perhaps to take advantage of a gastroenterologist I — Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
During World War II, when combat rations were tinned, meat hashes were a common entrée because they worked well with the — Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
It tastes like water spiked with strange. — Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
The human digestive tract is like the Amtrak line from Seattle to Los Angeles: transit time is about thirty hours, and t — Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Constipation ran Presley's life. Even his famous motto TCB— 'Taking Care of Business'— sounds like a reference to bathro — Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
It's called the FATLOSE trail. FATLOSE stands for 'Fecal Administration To LOSE weight,' an example of PLEASE— Pretty La — Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
People are messy, unpredictable things. — Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Meaning 'by way of the anus'. 'Per Annum', with two n's, means 'yearly'. The correct answer to the question, 'What is th — Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
…he was doing a breath hydrogen test. If you know the amount of hydrogen someone is exhaling orally, it's a simple matte — Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal