Greetings, fellow Ripsters! Please note I have full use of my keyboard tonight through the simple expedient of moving it directly under my hand on a rolling table. (I’m still using my left hand mostly for the shift key, but it’s SO much better than when it was paralyzed – not merely deadened — by the nerve block. Pain I can deal with.) And my heartfelt THANKS! to jokester emeritus Steve Silver for both his accolades AND for keeping up the tradition of the O.F.W.T.J. Society.
Anyhow, that’s enough preamble. I started on a theme, and on a theme I shall continue. Even if you’ve heard it before, you can’t stop me anyway, so here goes…
Two men are out hiking when one of them encounters a rattlesnake, which bites him on the foot. (Told you there was a theme…) His buddy makes sure he’s comfortable; then high-tails it to the doctor’s office to ask what he should do.
“You have to suck the poison out,” says the physician. So the guy goes back to his friend on the trail.
Greetings, fellow Ripsters! Please note I have full use of my keyboard tonight through the simple expedient of moving it directly under my hand on a rolling table. (I’m still using my left hand mostly for the shift key, but it’s SO much better than when it was paralyzed – not merely deadened — by the nerve block. Pain I can deal with.) And my heartfelt THANKS! to jokester emeritus Steve Silver for both his accolades AND for keeping up the tradition of the O.F.W.T.J. Society.
Anyhow, that’s enough preamble. I started on a theme, and on a theme I shall continue. Even if you’ve heard it before, you can’t stop me anyway, so here goes…
Two men are out hiking when one of them encounters a rattlesnake, which bites him on the foot. (Told you there was a theme…) His buddy makes sure he’s comfortable; then high-tails it to the doctor’s office to ask what he should do.
“You have to suck the poison out,” says the physician. So the guy goes back to his friend on the trail.
“What did the doctor say?” the friend asks.
“The doctor said you’re gonna die.”