Ok, this is one from "The Dutch are one fucked up group" files. My comments are on the bottom.....I probably sat in this one too long and you've already heard about it. Meh, here you go anyway.

Body piercing and tattoos make way. The latest fashion trend to hit the Netherlands is eyeball jewellery.

Dutch eye surgeons have implanted tiny pieces of jewellery called "JewelEye" in the mucous membrane of the eyes of six women and one man in cosmetic surgery pioneered by an ophthalmic surgery research and development institute in Rotterdam.

The procedure involves inserting a 3.5 mm (0.13 inch) wide piece of specially developed jewellery -- the range includes a glittering half-moon or heart -- into the eye's mucous membrane under local anaesthetic at a cost of 500 to 1,000 euros ($1,232).

"In my view it is a little more subtle than (body) piercing. It is a bit of a fun thing and a very personal thing for people," said Gerrit Melles, director of the Netherlands Institute for Innovative Ocular Surgery (www.NIIOC.nl).

The piece of jewellery is inserted in the conjunctiva -- the mucous membrane lining the inner surface of the eyelids and front of the eyeball --Greg: Yea, cause anywhere else on the eye would be stupid. ...... in sterile conditions using an operating microscope in a procedure taking about 15 minutes.

"Without doing any harm to the eye we can implant a jewel in the conjunctiva," Melles said. "So far we have not seen any side effects or complications and we don't expect any in the future."

The Rotterdam-based institute, which develops new ocular surgical techniques in corneal, cataract and retinal surgery, developed and patented the jewellery made with special materials and the surgical procedure.

The institute, which carries out the procedure in cooperation with an eye clinic near the city of Utrecht, said it has a waiting list for people who wanted the implant.

...... Ok, are you sufficiently ooked out now? My job is done then.

Projected future things people are going to do to themselves to one up hanging a three ring binder from their eyeball....

Actually having your eyeballs removed so you can see around corners.

Glass windows on the sides of the skull so we can see what you don't have much of. Maybe having a goldfish or beta installed in there.

Neon undercarriages strategically placed in armpits, roofs of mouths, and in ear canals.

And speaking of neon.. all those riceboy cars zipping around, the ones with the tailpipes the size of cantaloupes and neon underneath. I've been wondering how long it's going to be until someone gets the idea to mount one of those 2 billion candle power 60 inch diameter carbon arc searchlights on the roof of their go-cart. You know, the ones they used to spot german bombers during World War II.