Comments on: After One Colon-Embedded Bread Clip Too Many, Doctors Provide Design Analysis, Call for Reform

By: FloydA

FloydA — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:56:00 +0000

occludo -cludere -clusi -clusum [to shut up , close up].

Panis -is m. [bread]; in plur. [loaves].

And the suffix “-idae” identifies it as a Linnaean family, not a genus.

By: FloydA

FloydA — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:56:00 +0000

occludo -cludere -clusi -clusum [to shut up , close up].

Panis -is m. [bread]; in plur. [loaves].

And the suffix “-idae” identifies it as a Linnaean family, not a genus.

By: Michelle M.

Michelle M. — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:22:00 +0000

I think what many commenters have missed here is that adults are probably not the ones eating the clips, unless they suffer from pica. Babies are the ones ingesting them. They pop off the bread bag when it is opened, and fall on the floor. Mom looks and looks for it, can’t find it, and figures it went under an appliance. But babies are remarkable at finding such little treasures. And popping them in their mouthes. (Cats too, for that matter, but cats don’t usually swallow them. They carry them around and drop them in other places).