Posted By Russ Emerson on May 6, 2004 at 10:36 pm
“Friends“? That was a TV show? Hmm, I must have been busy with something else….
I have never seen a single episode of Friends. Not once. If it were a choice between Friends and turning off the TV, I’d be reaching for the remote faster than you can say “annoying theme song.”
It’s going off the air? Feh. Tonight is the last episode? So what?
Nor, I might add, have I ever seen Buffy, or 90210, Baywatch, Survivor or ER (despite the fact that I went to junior high school with Anthony Edwards, who didn’t mind being called “Tony” back in the ’70s.). I don’t make it a practice to watch any sitcom currently running, except The Simpsons.
I only ever saw one episode of Seinfeld. I hated it. Passionately. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I’ve watched Fraser.
Dramas? Ya, I watch 24 and CSI. Oh, and Monk, but that’s syndication-only, so I don’t think it really counts. Babylon 5 ruled. So did Firefly. It’s a pity they’re gone.
Reality shows? Oh, puh-leeze. I’d sooner crazy-glue my eyes shut, then nail them down just to be safe.
Glad I got that off my chest.
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Posted By Russ Emerson on May 4, 2004 at 11:45 pm
According to the Senator’s military doctor, the wound for which John Kerry received his first Purple Heart was minor, and close to having been self-inflicted:
Some of his crew confided that they did not receive any fire from shore, but that Kerry had fired a mortar round at close range to some rocks on shore. The crewman thought that the injury was caused by a fragment ricocheting from that mortar round when it struck the rocks.
That seemed to fit the injury which I treated.
What I saw was a small piece of metal sticking very superficially in the skin of Kerry’s arm. The metal fragment measured about 1 cm. in length and was about 2 or 3 mm in diameter. It certainly did not look like a round from a rifle.
I simply removed the piece of metal by lifting it out of the skin with forceps. I doubt that it penetrated more than 3 or 4 mm. It did not require probing to find it, did not require any anesthesia to remove it, and did not require any sutures to close the wound.
The wound was covered with a bandaid.
Well, heck.
The wound I described here was inflicted by a piece of metal about 1.5cm wide by .3cm thick (by 15cm long), and penetrated 3 or 4 millimeters. I pulled the metal out myself, and didn’t bother with a bandaid.
Where’s my Purpleheart?
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