Posted on 12/20/2006 12:11:27 AM PST by 60Gunner
Yep. By the bye- I spent a hunk of my youth in Philippi. Know it?
Great read.
As a child, my sister and I volunteered to help put new carpet in the church sanctuary with a young priest (he was the reason we bothered to show up!). They handed my sister a box cutter and she managed to stick it into another girl's knee as she was cutting the carpet. I don't remember the outcome but now that I have children I wonder several things:
1. Why were 11 and 12 year olds cutting carpet for the church?
2. Who was idiotic enough to hand us box cutters to do so?
Because of warning labels, these people, who would normally be "weeded out" of the gene pool thru natural selection, are now surviving to maturity and reproducing, creating more stupid people....
However, I have noticed an upturn in the number of stupid people that are terminating themselves. I believe this is because we have reached either the "warning label saturation point", or they have bred to the point they are just too stupid to read and understand the labels....
Let me add that I work on the IT help desk for a large hospital system, and encounter some of the same subspecies in the medical community seeking my help (or simply seeking some place to vent their frustrations.) It's very hard to kill or seriously injure yourself with a computer, but otherwise the behavior and thought patterns are the same.
Since I work over phone, it's only rarely that I'm tempted to drive over to the hospital and kill the client.
When the only tool you have is a box knife, every job looks like a box.
ROTFL! Reminds me of a situation recently when I had to pick up a kid from the police station because Mom was arrested for drunk driving and child endangerment...among other things. When we went to court and she was on the stand, our attorney asked her why she was driving an unregistered vehicle on a suspended license with her 3 year old child in the car after she'd been drinking. Her answer: because her companion was too drunk to drive. Oh, and the reason she was stopped in the first place? She nearly hit a cop car.
Their survival was not so much a matter of God mercifully wrapping His arms around these people. It would be more accurate to say that the Angel of Death simply rejected these people because his pals at the bar would never have believed the story- it would have just been too easy. Even the Angel of Death has his standards, you know.Too rich!
When my boys were young, we were on a first name basis with poison control....and they would call us and ask if everything was ok...damn kids could climb, manipulate the cupboard locks, and even open key locks!!!! We would put things up on our bedroom hutch ( above the top shelf, on the top of the hutch, a good 7' above the floor ) and the damn kids would still get into the stuff!!!! At least the poison control people had a sense of humor........
It's good to hear a doctor say this. I have a degree in mechanical engineering, so I know enough to tell you that the complexity of the human musculo-skeletal system is countless orders of magnitude greater than any machine created by man.
How anyone can believe that such a complex creature arose by chance is beyond me.
Please add me to your most entertaining list.
Just yesterday I thought it would be a good idea to warm my shaving cream up by placing it in front of the ceramic space heater in the bathroom overnight.
When I woke up the can was on it's side and the cap had blown off, but the mess was much smaller than I expected.
Most of my failures are not life threatening, but such was not always the case.
I am only still alive because God is extremely kind.
At times . . . words fail.
Silly - just fill up your sink with hot water, put your can of shaving cream in, take your shower, and when you get out, the shaving cream should be warm. Voila!
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A woman I know developed back problems from lack of exercise. Her doctor told her to get an exercise ball and do the workouts. Just a few days in to her new workouts, she fell off the workout ball and damaged a disc in her spine. Now she's worse off than she was before. |
That would be my son, if we went to the ER for every sneeze, sniffle and broken bone...
"gorked" -- been awhile since I've heard that one.
I worked in military ERs for several years, those too can be interesting.
Please add me to your well written list if you please.
From the web- (http://www.takeourword.com)
We suspect that the word you refer to is a corruption of gorked, a slang medical term which originally meant "anesthetized". It dates from before the 1970s, though no one seems to know the origin of the term, other than the guess that it was coined due to its expressive sound, and perhaps due to its similarity to the word dork.
The noun gork was back-formed from gorked in the early 1970s, having the meaning "a severely brain-damaged person". A brief scan of the Web showed the word gorked still being used to mean "anesthetized" or "doped up", as in "I was gorked on Valium".
I ran across the word for the first time recently when a profoundly brain-damaged infant was referred to as gorked. It's not difficult to see how the word might come to be applied to anything that is damaged or not working properly, or, as you phrased it, "messed up".
Your are now on the ER Nursing stories ping list!
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