h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...is if you're working with a blueprint machine when you get cut. Ammonia gets in it

What really hurts is when you realise that you are being trapped inside your maddening existence by your own soul! Or when you finally realise that your dreams have been falsified by someone who doesnt even know that you exist!

But apart from that cuts on blades of grass are, in my experience, even more painful!

Raven

Do not chop onions for lunch when having a cut of any kind on your fingers or hands.

BTW: I have to agree on the trapped soulthingy...

...is a paper cut in the loose skin between your thumb and index finger - these cuts take longer to heal because they are cracked open every time you reach to grab something, stretching the skin by opening your hand for a grip...

Yes!

And, going back to what I started this with, that's the most likely place to get a papercut when handling nice big sheets of paper to feed into the machine...

I once stapled my toe and that really really hurt. however i'm not sure where it was in comparison to a paper cut, maybe i should have cut my hand on some paper after stapling my toe and then i could have compared, or better yet i could have stapled the paper to my toe, that would have been a fair comparison.

Uh - why don't you try it *backs off* and let us know?

I MAY just give that one a miss if it's all the same...

Ah yes. A paper cut on your finger is really nasty. Especially if you get some nasty irritant in the cut.

Accidentally chop your leg off? Hardly hurts at all, does it? I mean, it is a bit of a shoch - losing a limb and everything, and you might lose abt more blood; but it's really not so annoyingly painful as a paper cut on your finger.

(Indcidentally, I once got my soul trapped in the door of a fridge. That was nasty too. I had to eat through my own leg to get it free.)

UG