State Fair Exhibit to Allow Visitors to Experience Day in the Life of Dennie Ray Oxley II

“No polyps today, Miss Jill.”

(Previously, of course, he routinely told Speaker Pat “The Hair” Bauer that.)

From the Indy Star:

An Indiana State Fair exhibit promoting education about colorectal cancer includes a 40-foot model of the human colon that visitors can crawl through.

The free exhibit at the Clarian Healthy Lifestyles Pavilion on Aug. 6-17 is dubbed “Colossal Colon” and depicts healthy colon tissue as well as tissue with hemorrhoids, cancerous and non-cancerous polyps, Crohn’s disease, diverticulosis, ulcerative colitis and various stages of colon cancer.

Colorectal cancer is the third-most common cancer and will cause nearly 50,000 deaths in the United States this year, according to the Indiana University Simon Cancer Center, which is co-sponsoring the exhibit with Clarian.