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THIS IS AMAZING!

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http://www.feralchildren.com/en/showchild.php?ch=ssebunya

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.feralkid.com/images/onhood4.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"hanged himself"?

Is the person who wrote this one of those feral children?

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

aja, that is correct grammar!

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I like to use the word 'hung'.

"Hung himself"

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

That usage would be incorrect.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Were you raised by wolves or something?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

No.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Or perhaps you were rose by wolves?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i just saw a movie where a feral child (feral because he was a white raised by comanche you see) kills his mother after he is taken back to the white world

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

No.

Rasied.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Is the person who wrote this one of those feral children?

I took this to mean the person who wrote this sentence.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

the feral child is the sole good thing in Cabin Fever.

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

No.

Click on the second link.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

have you guys seen 'wild child' by truffaut?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Or listened to "Wild Child" by The Doors?

― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I was uplifted by wolves. But it wore off.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Aja, pictures are hung, people are hanged.

(Unless you're talking about being well hung, but that's something else entirely)

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

POISOINING THE YOUTH

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I was raised by feral parents, but I rebelled.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

with bad spelling in my case

xpost

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Aja, pictures are hung, people are hanged.

Well, why is that?

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

seriously feral children were all the rage in the 19th century as they were used as test cases for the benefits of civilization, enlightenment, etc

unfortunately most cases of feral children are total bunk

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember seeing some horrible old French movie about a feral wolf-child taken back into society. I can't remember if I saw it unadulterated or on MST3K.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Aja, people are "hanged by the neck until dead" for the same reason 'through' is pronounced 'throo' and 'weight' rhymes with 'wait'. No reason anyone can recall. It just is.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

xpost:

My Feral Lady?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

jordan was it in black and white? was there a scene where they are clipping his nails?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

YES THAT'S THE ONE.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

it's not a bad little film i thought

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

TARZAN!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Well it was years and years ago, but I do remember having a good laugh with a friend over it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i hate mst so much

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i actually sort of think it is the nadir of western civilization

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

All right

Wild child full of grace
Savior of the human race
Your cool face

Natural child, terrible child
Not your mother's or your father's child
Your our child, screamin' wild

An ancient rulage of grains
And the trees of the night
Ha, ha, ha, ha

With hunger at her heels
Freedom in her eyes
She dances on her knees
Pirate prince at her side
Stirrin' into a hollow idols eyes

Wild child full of grace
Savior of the human race
Your cool face
Your cool face
Your cool face

Do you remember when we were in Africa?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't see kaspar Hauser on their isolated children page.
Herzog made a movie about him called "The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser"

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i actually sort of think it is the nadir of western civilization

Only when it wasn't funny.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

*squints at entirety of thread* The hell?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"In all my travels, the only time I ever slept deeply was when I was with wolvesThe days with my wolf family multiplied. I have no idea how many months I spent with them but I wanted it to last foreverit was far better than returning to the world of my own kind. Today, though most memories of my long journey are etched in tones of gray, the time spent with the wolves is drenched in color. Those were the most beautiful days I had ever experienced."

So wrote Misha Defonseca, a Jewish orphan who, from the ages of 7 to 11, wandered through occupied Europe during World War II, living on wild berries, raw meat and food stolen from farmhouses, and occasionally teaming up with wolves.

----From Paul Sieveking's article on Feral Children in The Fortean Times

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

feral children, yeah I document them in my blog

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 19 February 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't see kaspar Hauser on their isolated children page.
Herzog made a movie about him called "The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser"

was Kaspar Hauser really a feral child, though? i thought that he was just locked up by his parents/guardians, not abandoned in the wild.

by the bye, Bruno S was a rather interesting individual himself.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 February 2004 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Feral children are terribly terribly sad. I have family involved in trying to raise three children ignored or mistreated by their parents, never toilet trained, fed, cleaned, spoken to for five years or so (the oldest). They are heartbreaking, almost inhuman.

― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 19 February 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

My favorite is the Gazelle Boy of the Sahara. A Frenchman tried to capture him in 1960 but he outran the jeep!

Two more recent ones: The toddler in Iran who wandered away from her shepherd parents and lived with a mother bear for three days; and the little wild dog boy of Romania who lived with wolves for several years.

(Yes, I subscribe to fortean times.)

― andy, Thursday, 19 February 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I just saw Kaspar do appear on their confined page.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 19 February 2004 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The video for "Wild Boys" is like the greatest thing ever put on film.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 19 February 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I
HAVE
THE
CONCH
SHELL

FUCK
Y'ALL

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 19 February 2004 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Do the american commericals that deal with being raised by wolves bother anybody? there's a quizno's and some car. I mean, wtf?

man, that new quizno's with those weird stuffed hamsters or whatever. . .they need to fire their damn agency.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 19 February 2004 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.interlog.com/~wwhite/gifs/imgxta09.jpg

I have the conch shell, and I am a gift to women.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 19 February 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

GET OUT.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 February 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

NO WAY, SAM!!! Those guys are from rathergood.com! I can't believe how BRILLIANT the ad agency is for having those guys on there! They are quite freaky, though.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 19 February 2004 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

those commericals are horrible.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 19 February 2004 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.jetawayonline.com/images/conch.gif

― maypang (maypang), Thursday, 19 February 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

horrible only in that they make all other commercials seem so bad! ;-) (x-post)

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 19 February 2004 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

no. those commercials suck. they arnt funny and they dont make me want quiznos.

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Thursday, 19 February 2004 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

BAH! They make me want Quiznos MORE as I'm hoping I'll eventually turn into one of those guys.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 19 February 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

My coworkers at lunch were talking about how unappetizing those Quizno's commercials and whether the little things are cooked chicken breasts or dead hamsters walking around.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 February 2004 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

When you do Bryan, go live with the wolves.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 19 February 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Joel Veitch is a god amongst men.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 February 2004 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

:-( (x-post)

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 19 February 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it true that Aja was raised by burmakitty?

― maypang (maypang), Thursday, 19 February 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I think she was raised by someone hard of hearing.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 19 February 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

i think that she was raised by someone w/o a sense of humor.

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 19 February 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I like to use the word 'hung'.
"Hung himself"
-- Aja (AsiaKitty200...), February 19th, 2004.

Orbit, you're right! Aja is a man-perv!

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I am not!!

― Aja (aja), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it true that Aja was raised by burmakitty?

More by my grandma.

― Aja (aja), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i feell guilty for making light of this i guess

my only consolation is that as mentioned above most reported feral children are just media concoctions

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 20 February 2004 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Wild Boy by Jill Dawson is quite a good (fiction) book on this subject.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 20 February 2004 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a programme on Channel 4 about this not long ago. Here's the link: http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/S/science/body/bodyshock_wildchild.html

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 20 February 2004 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Wild boys, wild boys, wild boys, wild boys
Wild (wild) boys (boys, boys)
The wild boys are calling on there way back from the fire
In August moon's surrender to a dust cloud on the rise
Wild boys fallen far from glory reckless and so hungered
On the razors edge you trail because there's murder (murder, murder)
By the roadside in a sore afraid new world
They tried to break us looks like they'll try again

Wild boys (wild boys) never lose it wild boys (wild boys) never chose this way
Wild boys (wild boys) never close your eyes wild boys always shine

You got sirens for their welcome there's bloodstain for your pain
And your telephone been ringing while you're dancing in the rain
Wild boys wonder where is glory where is all you angels
Now the figureheads have fell (fell, fell) And lovers war with arrows over secrets they could tell
They tried to tame you looks like they'll try again

Wild boys (wild boys) never lose it wild boys (wild boys) never chose this way
Wild boys (wild boys) never close your eyes wild boys always shine

Wild boys wild boys wild boys wild boys wild boys wild boys wild boys

Wild boys (wild boys) never lose it wild boys (wild boys) never chose this way
Wild boys (wild boys) never close your eyes wild boys always
(Wild boys, wild boys) never lose it (wild boys, wild boys) never chose this way
Wild boys (wild boys) never close your eyes wild boys always
Wild boys (wild boys) never lose it wild boys (wild boys) never chose this way
Wild boys (wild boys) never close your eyes widl boys always wild boys (wild boys)

― Let's go back to Ally's pertinent post (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 February 2004 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Gummo anyone?

― kephm, Friday, 20 February 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

For soft, younger looking skin...

― kephm, Friday, 20 February 2004 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Courtney was rasied as a hippy in the earliest years of her life.

― Aja (aja), Friday, 20 February 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

fell (fell, fell)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

who's ur favorite feral child??? genie's my all-time fav! after googling this shit for a minute, it looks like the vast majority of them come from former soviet blocks and occasionally florida

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)

http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article750838.ece

the Linz girls sorta count too since they made up their own language and are incapable of laughter

rules: NO MOWGLI, NO TRUFFAUT

http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/ht_wiley4_080515_ssv.jpg
genie at age 32

― cankles, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 15:18 (seventeen years ago)

btw i was going to start a thread with the title 'let's talk about FERAL CHILDREN!!!!!!' and it redirected me here, great minds huh~~

― cankles, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 15:19 (seventeen years ago)

lol i was gonna start this thread after i finished reading the story about dani

― Mohammed Butt (max), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 15:28 (seventeen years ago)

Baby Hospital (1984). This seven-year-old girl was found by an Italian missionary in Sierra Leone. She had apparently been brought up by apes or monkeys. Baby Hospital was unable to stand upright and crawled instead of walking, and ate directly from her bowl without using her hands. She made the chattering noises of apes or monkeys. Baby Hospital's arms and hands were reported to be well developed, but not her leg muscles. She resisted attempts to civilise her, instead spending much of her time in an activity that is very unusual for feral children: crying.[11]

― Mohammed Butt (max), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 18:21 (seventeen years ago)

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