Subj : Re: Health Q&A To : Daryl Stout From : George Pope Date : Mon Nov 01 2021 07:21:09 > George, > GP> Hpefully he wasn't usding paedo slamg: chickenmeat means an underage > GP> lad. > We never thought of that slang. It was advertised as "all white meat". > I personally prefer white meat instead of dark meat...with both chicken > and turkey. I know; I was just throwing out a datum I thought made it funny. . . > As noted, I used to get a dozen chocolate iced donuts, and a diet > soda. But, it's rare that I go for that now. Live & learn they say. . . > GP> Will have been tobacco-free for 28 years this coming August! > I never picked up the vices of smoking or drinking. I don't see > how they can afford it. Speaking for myself: taking money away from eating properly/decently, & recycling tobacco/butts (I used to walk down a busy street 5 miles each way, picking up butts, which I'd empty into a rolling paper with home-made cardboard filter. > He does that...but the finances have been tighter than a frogs butt > underwater. Even if the Yag Laser surgery does good next month, I may > end up selling the car, anyway. As threy randomly raise prices & blame it on Covid because the hoi polloi have no idea & just accept it as fact. > Too bad we can't use the flatulence after a colonoscopy in our vehicles. > If we could, I'd get a pallet of Bush's Baked Beans, get the secret > formula from Duke, and tell OPEC what they could do with their gas prices. > There was "a study" that determined that people pass gas from 15 times a > day, to as much as 20 times an hour. I wonder how much of our tax money > was used to determine that?? I saw a study that timed how long people spent in the stalls in a public bathroom! & thought the same. I suspect these might be private studies (the latter maybe by employers trying to get a benchmark on what's reasonable for a bathroom break) As for the former, I imagine it'd be cheap enough to take a survey & ask 6 friends to do so, too, then extrapolate the numbers in a way not consistent with survey science. (cheap enough for the persion doint the study -- they'd charge somene else full price, though, & keep the difference) > GP> I have to get help rolling onto my side. When they wanted a stool > GP> sample, they had to put the bed's head up to max, so I was basically > GP> sitting. > I can roll on to the side pretty easily. Years ago, I was in the hospital > for an illness, and one of the get well cards I got noted "May your bedpan > always be warm". I can, too, now, but soon after my stroke, not so well. . . > GP> ahh: German bra: stoppemfromfloppen > Yah, voul. Jahvohl? > I liked the deal on The Tonight Show years ago, with Johnny Carson as > The Great Carnac, and Ed McMahon reading things. With one envelope, The > Great Carnac said "Marcus Welby, Catfish, Doris Day"...to which, that > got the laugh and chuckles from Ed McMahon and the audience (as Carnac > rubbed the envelope next to his head). Then, he opened it, and said > "Name a surgeon, a sturgeon, and a virgin". The only Carnac I recall is: Answer: 9W Question: "So, Mr. Vagner, do you spell your name with a 'V'? Your friend, <+]:{)} Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757.2) .