There's a good chance the first Nobel Prize ought to have gone to Gayetty; or I'll even take the Scott brothers. Yes, those guys before Edison. Reward inventors and businessmen who genuinely made a difference for good in people's lives. Like Carrier and Ford and Haber (nitrogen fertilizer) and such. I don't see where there's been a more convenient invention than TP. I use it every day. Have to cut my fingernails short and walk funny if I didn't. You?
EBOLA......''your thoughts''
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Everybody has a phone book laying around. [Too bad about the demise of the Sears catalog.] There's wooly mullein leaf, large and lightly rehydrated fallen tree leaves, a sponge on a stick (worked for the Romans), and--gulp--expendable books.
Bob
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don't forget my favorites too...sandpaper, steel wool and corn cobs.
yeah, I usually start with 60 grit and work my way up to about a 2000. Gotta remember to use the wet/dry paper though
Boboro
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Ant ya'll got a dog?
DGBAMA
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How crazy things get around here when growing season ends....... Maybe I could get a Nobel Prize for a pill that fights Tobacco Growing Withdrawal symptoms.
As I sit here laughing at the last two pages of comments.
As I sit here laughing at the last two pages of comments.
ArizonaDave
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Just had a breaking news flash, Ebola is in NY now......
LOL! The rabbit does the trick!
LOL! The rabbit does the trick!
DGBAMA
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Rotflmao. :d
Arrogant physicians appear to pose a significant risk of introducing ebola into new localities in the US. Physicians who have intentionally visited ebola-epidemic areas of west Africa (the current new case in New York city, as well as the NBC reporter/physician, Nancy Snyderman) "know" the extent of their exposure to ebola, and are overconfident in the precautions that they have taken.
As a result of their confidence in their low risk of contracting the disease, their self-monitored isolation is unacceptably inadequate. Nancy Snyderman surreptitiously drove out to a restaurant for take-out soup (she sent a passenger in the car into the restaurant) during her "isolation" period. In her case, she fortunately completed her 21 days without developing the disease. In the case of the NY physician (who generously donated his efforts to treating ebola patients in west Africa), he rode the subway and taxis, and went bowling as well as dining at a restaurant during his 21 day "isolation," and did, in fact, carry the virus. Shame on both of them.
While the risk of the virus spreading from this new case in New York is limited mostly to the "small number" of close contacts who spent time with him during his putative self-monitored "isolation," the fact that anyone was exposed to him during this "isolation" time is simply inexcusable. While I wish him a full recovery, I fault his arrogance for creating this new crisis and the associated public expense burden of cleaning up after his missteps.
Both he and Snyderman know better, and have no excuse.
Bob
As a result of their confidence in their low risk of contracting the disease, their self-monitored isolation is unacceptably inadequate. Nancy Snyderman surreptitiously drove out to a restaurant for take-out soup (she sent a passenger in the car into the restaurant) during her "isolation" period. In her case, she fortunately completed her 21 days without developing the disease. In the case of the NY physician (who generously donated his efforts to treating ebola patients in west Africa), he rode the subway and taxis, and went bowling as well as dining at a restaurant during his 21 day "isolation," and did, in fact, carry the virus. Shame on both of them.
While the risk of the virus spreading from this new case in New York is limited mostly to the "small number" of close contacts who spent time with him during his putative self-monitored "isolation," the fact that anyone was exposed to him during this "isolation" time is simply inexcusable. While I wish him a full recovery, I fault his arrogance for creating this new crisis and the associated public expense burden of cleaning up after his missteps.
Both he and Snyderman know better, and have no excuse.
Bob
Bex
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As they say....x2. It is pure arrogance on their parts - perhaps somewhat attached to their egotistic need to 'enjoin' in this situation, and yet feel they are above any repercussion for their actions. Considering all the publicity that this virus has attracted, the actions of these two - and any others like them - really does border on criminal.
Bex
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Just an amusing anecdote here - I live in farm country, and often get flooded into my home (with some access to the surrounding field). When asked by some local farmers how I fared during these times, I responded that as long as I had cigarettes and toilet paper, I'd be fine. They looked at me like I had two heads. They understood the cigarettes, but advised that there was plenty of grass around to be used instead of toilet paper. In my effort to acclimatize myself to my 'new' surroundings, I have since learned how to do this (a bit of a jump for a Long Islander) ....and to stay away from nettles
ArizonaDave
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Bwahahahaha! Spitting my drink all over the computer monitor! Maybe it IS time to get another dog! LOL
leverhead
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I gotta send that one around! It's a pretty good translation from political English to plain English.
Made a copy of that one myself. Good one webmost.
Just got back to work after messing up my back, had to go to the ER and remember hearing a very strange conversation between the ER doc and the RN.
They were both completely confused about what to do about a patient that was in the room down the hall. The conversation consisted of statements such as "well do we call the CDC?" and "Well, she has a temperature just Borderline for....that....virus", "let me contact the CDC adviser" and "Just tell them to take tylenol and send them home for now".
Considering I heard that, I'm a little bit nervous about the whole deal, I know if it is my time, it's my time but everything is very hush hush. Our governor (whom I supported up until about 2 hours ago) is not implementing a quarantine for health care professionals coming back from West Africa. Because "Our health care system is in control of it" (I have absolutely no trust in our health care system when it comes to a cold nonetheless a viral break out)
Lord help us all...
They were both completely confused about what to do about a patient that was in the room down the hall. The conversation consisted of statements such as "well do we call the CDC?" and "Well, she has a temperature just Borderline for....that....virus", "let me contact the CDC adviser" and "Just tell them to take tylenol and send them home for now".
Considering I heard that, I'm a little bit nervous about the whole deal, I know if it is my time, it's my time but everything is very hush hush. Our governor (whom I supported up until about 2 hours ago) is not implementing a quarantine for health care professionals coming back from West Africa. Because "Our health care system is in control of it" (I have absolutely no trust in our health care system when it comes to a cold nonetheless a viral break out)
Lord help us all...
1708 -- no wonder I forgot all about it. Any more than 250 years ago my memory is a blur. Must be all that opium I smoked during the Boxer Rebellion.
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