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Fuckin missed opportunity. Would be even better if it was over 98 and the killer says like a really bad joke about running hot.
Somebody get Sam Raimi on the thread
Fun fact: 98.6 comes from an early study of human body temperatures, almost entirely about sick people. The "normal" body temperature only appears in a footnote. And it was never measured to a precision of a tenth of a degree; the actual reported number was 37°C. Actual human body temperatures vary by a lot more than 0.1°F over time and between individuals.
It has also been suggested that the average temperature has actually lowered over time due to the average person harboring fewer parasites at any given time.
That, of course, is due to better standards of hygiene, food, and sanitation.
I noticed during the pandemic that when healthy my body temperature is usually from about 95-97 degrees. So all those times before when I felt like shit and measured myself at a “normal” 98-99 I was probably not fine actually.
There’s actually some theories that say it’s probably pretty accurate, but that our bodies have changed over the years and that’s why 98.6 isn’t average now.
What would really tie it together is the transition to the next day/murder investigation scene showing it drop down to room temperature.
That'd be dope
Then up again during the transfer to the morgue, implying something.
I dunno, but that's brilliant. You should be writing this stuff. 🤣
That would be silly. The only reason that the average body temperature is said to be 98.6°F is because that is what 37°C converts to. Notice how that is a nice round number? It's actually about 97.9°F or 36.6°C.
This would have been a hilarious Dexter gag.
Jam ’em? I rectum!
There's one where a guy sticks his arm in a blood pressure monitor and then zombies rip his arm off his body while it's still in there and it reads 0 over 0.
A natural what?
Emily answers in the kitchen and is attacked by a masked assailant, but stabs him in the neck with a meat thermometer. Steven returns expecting Emily to be dead, but finds the assailant's body.
From A Perfect Murder, so it’s been used, but the close up? Who knows, and yeah not horror though.
Trying to research it is just coming up with a bunch of people being stabbed in movie theaters by meat thermometers… why is there so many…
I've taken my temperature with a meat thermometer and I'm pretty sure the calibration on those things isn't that precise, it's never really at 98.6
There's a number of meat thermometer murderers - The Summer of Massacre holds the Guinness Book of records for most on-screen kills and so they get a little creative.
A man was also once stabbed with meat thermometer while watching a horror movie.
Not a thermometer, but there’s something similar in the movie Sleepaway Camp… but I think it’s a curling iron iirc…. And you don’t want that inside you
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
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