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2007-11-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Man evacuated to hospital with sprinkler in his chest

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Posted by Fred 2007-11-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 No doubt immediately preceded by the statement "here, hold my beer and watch this!"

Posted by PBMcL 2007-11-07 00:52|| 2007-11-07 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Not necessarily unrelated > REDDIT > SOAK-CENTRIC Nanoporous materials may make hydrogen-fueled engines, and thus hydrogen-powered vehiiikles, etc. a reality???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-11-07 04:00|| 2007-11-07 04:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Not necessarily unrelated....

In Joe's world, everything is related.

Posted by Steve 2007-11-07 07:42|| 2007-11-07 07:42|| Front Page Top

#4 JosephM, don't expect that to come on the market next year. Perhaps in our lifetimes is the timeframe you should be looking at.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-11-07 08:53|| 2007-11-07 08:53|| Front Page Top

#5 "Nurse, we'll have to irrigate the wound"

/*rimshot*
I'm here all week, try the veal

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-11-07 09:19|| 2007-11-07 09:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Some people will try anything to eliminate heartburn.
/ba dump bump

Posted by Darrell 2007-11-07 09:29|| 2007-11-07 09:29|| Front Page Top

#7 I saw the headline and thought it could happen here in the drought-striken southeast. Ya know, the "water police" get out in force.

Posted by BA 2007-11-07 10:08|| 2007-11-07 10:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Years ago, a national medical journal asked ERs to send it accident statistics for a statistical analysis. After three years of doing this, someone noted an amusing oddity. All three years running, each year, one dozen men in the US were reported to have been "taking a shower, slipped and fell on a lemon".

But on the fourth year, again, exactly one dozen men were reported to have been involved in the same accident. Now statistically, unless it had been the same twelve men, which it wasn't, that would raise some eyebrows.

Pretty soon, "men slipping and falling and landing on a lemon, while showering", became a humorous reporting priority in ERs across the country, and in one of the offices of the medical journal, a large sign mysteriously had a single digit number on it.

After the fifth year of exactly one dozen men, small wagers began to appear. After the sixth year, some of the wagers became larger. By the reporting date of the seventh year, a Super Bowl atmosphere prevailed, helped by the refusal of the chief statistical analyst to reveal that years number until midnight of December 31st, at the New Years' party.

Sure enough, 12 men had, in the previous year, slipped and fallen while taking a shower and landed on a lemon.

But all good things must come to an end, and inexplicably, on the eighth year, in the United States, only four men were reported to have suffered that accident.

Interestingly, the collective frustration felt in ERs across the nation resulted in a considerable number of unsolicited reports of other, non-lemon objects, being added to their reports as unusual "rectal foreign bodies", discovered in the course of the year. Which, while of little statistical value, was an appreciated consolation prize.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-11-07 10:18|| 2007-11-07 10:18|| Front Page Top

#9 It almost sounds like someone was making up the statistics and failed to realize they needed to remove that line from the consolidated report. I suppose itwas double checked since they could track down the actual patients. The world is a strange place.

Posted by Unutle McGurque8861 2007-11-07 10:28|| 2007-11-07 10:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Lemon soap is safer on a rope...
http://www.beautybodybath.com/images/LEMON%20S-ROPE%20copy.jpg

Posted by Darrell 2007-11-07 10:46|| 2007-11-07 10:46|| Front Page Top

#11 I am forced to ask, why on earth would someone have a lemon in the shower to be fallen upon? And please don't anyone say, "Because gerbils don't like to get wet."

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-11-07 11:55|| 2007-11-07 11:55|| Front Page Top

#12 TW -- I think the shower part of the story was to cover what they were really doing.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-11-07 12:03|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-11-07 12:03|| Front Page Top

#13 Somebody hand me the steel wool, will ya? I have this mental video of some old guy on the roof, with a fiddle, "If I were a rich man, Yadadadada, dadadawhoops......."

Posted by USN,Ret. 2007-11-07 14:29|| 2007-11-07 14:29|| Front Page Top

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