You may be pleased to know that there is an International Forum for the Study of Itch. And it has a regular conference, which just leads to inevitable jokes.

  • http://twitter.com/rvitelli Romeo Vitelli

    Not making a pun about itching was a rash decision.

  • Chuck

    Those bastards have secretly been using me as their guinea pig for years.  *scratch scratch*  But they’re going to get what’s coming to them.  Oh yes.  Soooooooooon.

  • Robert Cruickshank

    Is the headquarters of the itch studies foundation known as the lice-eum?

  • gizzardface

    I bet they’re all itching to go this year.

  • http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

    Itching can be very serious. I read of a case where one person had a psychosomatic itch that caused her to scratch right through her skull.

    • surreality

      I thought about that when I saw this too. And was terrified all over again. But I’m glad they’re studying it.

  • Stooge

    I fear for the Forum’s future now that it has entered its seventh year.

  • MadRat

    Was it founded by a Japanese guy named Ichi Ni?

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Not Koroshiya Ichi?

      • Felton / Moderator

        Now there’s a reference I wasn’t expecting.

  • Guest

    scratching the pun must have felt good