<![CDATA[Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883 - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883 - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883]]> Dr. Scott!
Janet!
Brad!
Rocky! (Unh!)

Jim_in_Buffalo

]]> <![CDATA[Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883]]> From "Third Rock from the Sun:"

"They call it the 'Shatner!'"

RAHfanboy

]]> <![CDATA[Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883]]> @Evil Tortie's Mom: Ah yes, but NCMM Magnets were-- of course--bipolar.

Grey_Area

]]> <![CDATA[Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883]]> @Grey_Area: Weren't some of the 19th Century Miracle Medical Magnets coated in morphine?!

That'd make you feel better.

Evil Tortie's Mom

]]> <![CDATA[Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883]]> "many instances from the severe aches and pains to which all flesh is heir"

For a quack, he sure likes cribbing from Shakespeare.

pkittie

]]> <![CDATA[Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883]]> @taxbaby: No, but you did get a nifty silver-plated compass to show you that your corset was juiced up and ready to go. Here's one that came with the Electric Brush.

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Lynn Peril

]]> <![CDATA[Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883]]> I wonder if you get a Carbolic Smoke Ball free with purchase.

taxbaby

]]> <![CDATA[Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883]]> @Lynn Peril: Really?!

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883]]> @Evil Tortie's Mom: That's my understanding - but Gray_Area said it sooooo much better!

@Annalee Newitz: A Fun Fact About Me: The interrobang is my favorite punctuation mark.

Lynn Peril

]]> <![CDATA[Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883]]> I'm just glad that each corset is stamped with the English coat of arms! Who doesn't like lingerie that looks official?! (note appropriate use of interrobang)

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883]]> Wait, someone combined into a device, a hellish contraption that made it impossible for women to breathe with electrocution? He deserves a special circle in hades.

twreckx

]]> <![CDATA[Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883]]> @Evil Tortie's Mom: Nah, it used special 19th Century Medical Magnets --y'know, the kind dipped in cocaine.

Grey_Area

]]> <![CDATA[Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883]]> also, love the irony that most of the Complaints were probably caused by wearing corsets in the first place.

Evil Tortie's Mom

]]> <![CDATA[Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883]]> So... it just had magnets? Like they sell today?

Evil Tortie's Mom

]]> <![CDATA[Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883]]> I can't get my girlfriend into the corset, I'll be damned if she'll go in for the electric-shocks...

russdanger

]]> <![CDATA[Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883]]> well how nice that he did so much to pay attention to "the lady portion of the community" (I'm so using that).

iBurgle

]]> <![CDATA[Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883]]> @DorothyZbornak:
what happens if it rains?


usernametaken

]]> <![CDATA[Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883]]> And it's "absolutely unbreakable!" Just what I want to hear about an electrical device that's crushing my ribs.

DorothyZbornak

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