I almost threw my eyeballs out of their sockets in a wrenching attempt to avert my eyes from this article. Oh, well, at least it's not about losing my male parts.

That would be harder yet. Errr...so to speak.

[Via Paul Hsieh (MD, who usually doesn't come up with as yucky stuff as this.)]

I'm still trying to figure out how your eyeball knows which way it's supposed to be when you put it back in. I wonder if that's why you're supposed to "look down" before popping it in, to get it lined up correctly... Could it be put in upside-down?

To answer Breen: the muscles on the side keep it right-side up.

The sailor and author Tristan Jones has written about having his eyeball popped out when he was at the top of his mast trying to fix a broken stay. He popped it back in. Can't remember if it was before or after he finished the repair.

A fairly standard opthmalogic operation entail putting a strap around the eyeball. Pop it out; put on the belt; pop it back in. It's not that simple, but you get the idea.

I saw a neighborhood dog pop an eye out when it got it's head caught in a screen. My dad popped it back in. I don't ever, ever want to see something like that again.

For some reason I'm put in mind of a passage from some story, which I only read about secondhand:

His eyes slid slowly down the front of her dress.

I'm guessing she must have had some rack.