Scrimshaw abuse

Residue from a scrimshaw abuse binge. These pieces are confined in a protective vitrine, to prevent further spread of the disease.

Scrimshaw abuse, sometimes known as ivory towering, is a patterned use of scrimshaw in which the scrimshander produces scrimshaw with images or side-effects which are harmful to themselves or others.

Scrimshaw abuse is a form of matter-related disorder.

Widely differing definitions of scrimshaw abuse are used in public health, medical aesthetics, and admiralty law contexts.

Extract of Radium is hazardously popular with scrimshaw abusers.

In the News

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  Playskool's My First DSM

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  August 18, 2019: The phrase "It’s because of your taste buds that the Yorkshire Tea hurt Daddy’s brain" emerges from the brain of Karl Jones.

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  Scrimshaw artist Edward Burdett's life cut short by deck accident.

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  Poseidon warning against scrimshaw (550–525 BC). Inscription (not shown) reads: "Put down the knife. P."

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  Grave of the pirate Olivier Levasseurs, with cannon to ward of scrimshaw ghosts.

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  Flag of Pirate King Cinnamon Jack, scourge of the scrimshaw abuse trade.

Fiction cross-reference

• Extract of Radium
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Playskool's My First DSM
• Tar for Tar's Sake - drinking song about Extract of Radium and scrimshaw abuse

Nonfiction

• Admiralty law (nonfiction)
• Asklepieion and the Transformation of Therapeutic Communities in a Time of Duress (nonfiction)
• It’s because of your taste buds that the Yorkshire Tea hurt Daddy’s brain (nonfiction)
• Public health (nonfiction)
• Scrimshaw (nonfiction)
• Substance abuse (nonfiction)

External links

• Substance abuse @ Wikipedia