Posted on 07/14/2015 8:51:59 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
When Jimmy Fallon abruptly canceled his last new Tonight Show episode before a two-week break last month due to an unexplained injury to his hand, details were sketchy at first.
Well, last night, he returned to the show with his left hand in a cast and spent several minutes telling his audience exactly how close he came to losing his finger after he tripped and fell on a rug in his home and caught his wedding ring on the counter as he went down.
Whatever you do, don’t Google “ring avulsion.”
Watch video below, via NBC:
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I googles ring avulsion, they were right, don’t do it.
I work in the trades an old tough as nails old dude i worked with he cut two fingers off with a skill saw another guy tripped on his cord he went to the er and got back around noon he finished out the day fallon is a wuss
Used to be, mechanics, electricians, and carpenters were all admonished to remove rings and jewelry while working, for this very reason.
I never liked Fallon on Saturday Night Live or in movies, but I have been very impressed with him as the host of The Tonight Show.
He treats his guests with respect and always lets them in on the jokes. He genuinely seems to be inviting the audience into his living room and wants to entertain them without worrying about his own sense of appearance.
I love that he gets big named celebrities to do goofy things and makes them laugh with him.
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I knew a guy in the Air Force in ‘70 that dropped out of the 47 section hatch of a B52 and left his ring half his finger on the plane.
I never wore any jewellery after that.
Pissed off my wife a bit until I showed her the picture that was posted on the squadron bulletin board.
My wife used to do the billing for a reconstructive plastic surgeon and some of the pictures she would bring home to show were horrifying, things like “de-gloving”. She wasn’t happy about it but after those I never wore my wedding ring on my construction job again. Well that and having molten solder wrap around the ring and burn me to the bone.
I the mid to late 70s I was on SAC ICBM Missile Combat Crew. One of the first Caution/Warning steps in our Silo Entry Procedure was the removal of all rings, watches, and jewelry. My then girlfriend (soon to be my fiancee and now my wife of 33 years) bought me a very nice ring but I always just left it at my barracks room. Although she was also in the AF she had no idea about my duty but after awhile she understood.
When I earned my Commission and went back on Missile Combat Crew we were married but she always reminded me to take my wedding ring off as she wanted me to keep all of my fingers.
When I was in the Air Force, rings were not allowed in or near aircraft (not for those working on them, nor for those flying in them). We had to take them off (didn’t affect me, I wasn’t married, and didn’t wear any rings). All the married guys and gals did, though. It was for this exact reason.
Knew an assistant scoutmaster when my kids were young and in scouting. Missing the ring finger on his right hand. He was working in Walmart as a kid and had to get something off a high shelf. He jumped up and on the way back down the ring hooked on a shelf frame and POP. Now I understand why they didn’t try to reattach it. This was back I the 60s when microsurgery was in its infancy and it probably would have required a length of vein like Fallon.
Boy, I couldn’t agree with you more. He was absolutely un-funny on SNL and everything else he did. I thought he was totally undeserving to host the Tonight Show. Then I gave it a try. Wow - really talented and even-handed with his guests. Even willing to make jokes about Obama.
My wedding band is made of tungsten carbide - my finger is not -suddenly have the urge to remove it (the ring that is)
I worked with a welder lost his finger. His ring arched and burned his finger so bad they had to cut it off.
In the Army motor pool, there were posters of people’s fingers half ripped off....as a reminder.
Ouch!
Anyone else here in their 60s that grew up in the corn belt?
The old corn pickers took a lot of hands. There were 5 or 6 metal hands in the small church I grew up in.
When I was in the Navy, there was a guy on the ship sitting in a top rack, put his hand on a pipe to steady himself as he jumped to the deck, and there was a bolt sticking up from the top of the pipe that caught his wedding ring.
It was awful to see, a lot of blood, and I didn’t think they would be able to put his finger back together, but...they eventually did.
Kind of reminds me of the time I saw a real autopsy, and they peeled the face back and I thought “Hey! You can’t do that...” but they did...
Geez, I am nearly feeling nauseous just thinking of it after all these years (the finger, not the autopsy)
you can add almost any word before avulsion. - don’t do it. that goes especially for male Freepers.
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