Re: AMOTQ: Last Friday in August questions
Rowan Hawthorn
> A somewhat bedraggled grey-haired dude limps in, drops a handful of
> Euros on the bar, accepts his Fosters from Mike and sits down in the
> most comfortable chair he can find. He takes a couple of sips and asks:
>
> 1. Can you drive a stick shift?
I can drive anything if you give me a couple of minutes to figure out
where everything is. But yeah.
>
> 2. How far from home would you have to go to find an Indian restaurant?
>
American Indian or Continental Indian? If the latter, about 3 miles.
> 3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or even accidentally overheard, a
> conversation you weren't meant to hear?
Yup. It's saved my ass from false accusations a couple of times, too.
>
> 4. How many different museums have you visited? What is your favorite one?
Oh, jeez, I dunno - thirty? Forty? Hard to say.
>
> 5. What board games did you like as a kid?
Chess, checkers, Chinese checkers, backgammon, Monopoly
>
> 6. Have you ever saved someone's life?
Yes.
>
> 7. When was the last time you stubbed your toe so hard it brought tears
> to your eyes?
About two years ago.
>
> 8. What was your best "find" at a garage sale/flea market/rummage
> sale/thrift shop?
Short-barreled .20 ga. H&R Topper shotgun for $15.
>
> 9. How about at a used book store?
Found a whole stack of Louis L'Amour leather-bound editions for $7 each.
>
> 10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
Closest from a medical sense? Had a severe bout with hypokalemia a few
years ago that put me in the hospital. Closest from a "Damn, that was
close" sense, any one of the three totaled vehicles I've been in.
>
> Today's bonus question:
>
> What is the one thing about you which you dislike the most/like the least?
>
The way my weight fluctuates.
--
Rowan Hawthorn
"Occasionally, I'm callous and strange." - Willow Rosenberg, "Buffy the
Vampire Slayer"
Barry Gold
>A somewhat bedraggled grey-haired dude limps in, drops a handful of
>Euros on the bar, accepts his Fosters from Mike and sits down in the
>most comfortable chair he can find. He takes a couple of sips and
>asks:
>
>1. Can you drive a stick shift?
Yes.
>2. How far from home would you have to go to find an Indian
>restaurant?
About 1 mile. But our favorite is more like 3 or 4 miles, so we have
it delivered.
>3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or even accidentally overheard, a
>conversation you weren't meant to hear?
Probably, but I can't remember specifics right now.
>4. How many different museums have you visited? What is your favorite
>one?
I've lost count. My favorite is probably the Field Museum in Chicago.
We went there the day after a somewhat stressful trip to Chicago for
worldcon. Walked up the stairs from the entrance lobby, and there in
one room were at least 1/2 dozen really *beautiful* pieces. It was
a great refreshment for the soul. A few rooms farther on is one with
nearly a dozen Monets, and not one of them a dud. (ANd yes, Monet did
paint a fair number that didn't work out.)
>5. What board games did you like as a kid?
Candyland when I was very young. Careers later on.
>6. Have you ever saved someone's life?
I don't think so.
>7. When was the last time you stubbed your toe so hard it brought tears
>to your eyes?
Last week.
>8. What was your best "find" at a garage sale/flea market/rummage
>sale/thrift shop?
Can't remember.
>9. How about at a used book store?
Can't remember, but we've definitely found some beauts.
>10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
1981. I had a heart attack, luckily while I was _in_ the hospital.
It was massive, about 30% of the left ventricle is now scar tissue.
My heart went into fibrillation, but they managed to bring me back.
And, no, there wasn't any bright light or anything. I just came to,
not even aware anything had happened except that I'd lost a minute or
two, with my legs trembling uncontrollably (probably from the electric
shock).
--
Barry Gold, webmaster:
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Conchord: http://www.conchord.org
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Desideria
<mike...@unverbesserlich.org> wrote:
>A somewhat bedraggled grey-haired dude limps in, drops a handful of
>Euros on the bar, accepts his Fosters from Mike and sits down in the
>most comfortable chair he can find. He takes a couple of sips and
>asks:
>
>1. Can you drive a stick shift?
Yes.
>
>2. How far from home would you have to go to find an Indian
>restaurant?
I assume you mean East Indian and not Native American?
About two miles, I think.
>
>3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or even accidentally overheard, a
>conversation you weren't meant to hear?
Certainly. Several times in restaurants. Sometimes the things folks
will say in public are *amazing*, and that's not even discussing their
cell phone conversations in public.
>
>4. How many different museums have you visited? What is your favorite
>one?
Maybe 6 or 7. I think my favorite was the one along the Columbia Gorge
that has copies of Rodin sculptures.
>
>5. What board games did you like as a kid?
Scrabble, Monopoly, Twister.
>
>6. Have you ever saved someone's life?
No. But I may've saved folks from harm.
>
>7. When was the last time you stubbed your toe so hard it brought tears
>to your eyes?
Luckily, quite some years ago. Now the last time I stubbed it hard
enough to swear has been a lot more recently.
>
>8. What was your best "find" at a garage sale/flea market/rummage
>sale/thrift shop?
The $100 worth of wardrobe that includes enough clothes for several
years of work if I don't mind just 4 or 5 outfits of business attire,
and the two sets of jeans, plus the snazzy evening jackets.
I had an excellent helper. ;-)
>
>9. How about at a used book store?
Too many to count! I'd say newer hardbacks of books I haven't read
yet.
>
>10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
The gallstones, which I had for about two months before I could get my
surgery done. I followed the lowfat diet precisely, because I had one
gallstone at the neck of the gallbladder and all set to go wandering.
IOW, not all that close.
>
>Today's bonus question:
>
>What is the one thing about you which you dislike the most/like the
>least?
My allergies.
Desideria
David
>A somewhat bedraggled grey-haired dude limps in, drops a handful of
>Euros on the bar, accepts his Fosters from Mike and sits down in the
>most comfortable chair he can find. He takes a couple of sips and
>asks:
>
>1. Can you drive a stick shift?
>
Yes and a crash box.
>2. How far from home would you have to go to find an Indian
>restaurant?
>
A couple of kilometres
>3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or even accidentally overheard, a
>conversation you weren't meant to hear?
>
Yes.
>4. How many different museums have you visited? What is your favorite
>one?
>
Uncountable. I drove tour buses.
>5. What board games did you like as a kid?
>
Monotony, Squatter and Cluedo.
>6. Have you ever saved someone's life?
>
Only by being a driver.
>7. When was the last time you stubbed your toe so hard it brought tears
>to your eyes?
>
Yesterday.
>8. What was your best "find" at a garage sale/flea market/rummage
>sale/thrift shop?
>
A 20Mb hard drive for next to nothing.
>9. How about at a used book store?
>
Everything.
>10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
>
A car crash but I was barely injured.
>Today's bonus question:
>
>What is the one thing about you which you dislike the most/like the
>least?
My lack of lung capacity due to forty years of heavy smoking.
--
David
No email replies please.
What happened last night can happen again.
Rowan Hawthorn
> On Aug 28, 5:45 am, Rowan Hawthorn <rowan_hawth...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Mike Muth wrote:
>>> A somewhat bedraggled grey-haired dude limps in, drops a handful of
>>> Euros on the bar, accepts his Fosters from Mike and sits down in the
>>> most comfortable chair he can find. He takes a couple of sips and asks:
>>> 1. Can you drive a stick shift?
>> I can drive anything if you give me a couple of minutes to figure out
>> where everything is. But yeah.
>
>
>>> 10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
>> Closest from a medical sense? Had a severe bout with hypokalemia a few
>> years ago that put me in the hospital. Closest from a "Damn, that was
>> close" sense, any one of the three totaled vehicles I've been in.
>
Heh. Did I mention that one of those was due to equipment failure in
the first car I ever owned, and another was because some yokel in a
pick-em-up truck decided to make a U-turn on a four-lane highway (from
the right lane) just as I was about to pass him in the left lane?
Aramanth Dawe
Due to my poor vision, I can't drive legally AT ALL. Regardless of
the type of transmission I'm not allowed behind the wheel of a car.
And no, I never learned to drive a stick shift (or an automatic,
either) even on private property.
>2. How far from home would you have to go to find an Indian
>restaurant?
No idea. Indian, like Mexican and Thai food, is something I need to
avoid due to serious allergies to all forms of red/green pepper. Just
walking past such a restaurant tends to trigger asthma in both me and
my older daughter who has the same allergy.
>3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or even accidentally overheard, a
>conversation you weren't meant to hear?
Yes. Hard not to when you work in Cube-Land.
>4. How many different museums have you visited? What is your favorite
>one?
Probably about 8 or 9. My all-time Favourite is the Museum of
Victoria (Australia) in Melbourne.
>5. What board games did you like as a kid?
Loved Scrabble and Monopoly.
>6. Have you ever saved someone's life?
Yes. It's an amazing thing to know that someone is walking around
today because of something I specifically did!
>7. When was the last time you stubbed your toe so hard it brought tears
>to your eyes?
Can't remember
>8. What was your best "find" at a garage sale/flea market/rummage
>sale/thrift shop?
I was offered free pick from a load of old books that were going to be
burned as the Thrift Shop hadn't managed to sell them. I picked out a
few including a volume of memoirs by Helen Keller, the deaf-blind-mute
young woman whose story is told in The Miracle Worker (one of my
favourite movies as a kid). When I opened the book a week later it
was to discover it was inscribed "to all my friends in Australia" and
signed by Miss Keller - apparently herself as it is very obvious that
it was written and signed using a Straight-Edge. It is something I
treasure!
>9. How about at a used book store?
Nothing as amazing as the item listed above.
>10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
Coming back from our honeymoon, DH and I were confronted coming around
a bend by 2 trucks both barrelling side-by-side towards us on the
one-lane-each-way road on the edge of a cliff. Scary stuff! I swear
the car breathed in and we squeaked by the trucks with millimetres to
spare!
>Today's bonus question:
>
>What is the one thing about you which you dislike the most/like the
>least?
My inability to lose weight regardless of how hard I try.
Az
wolfette
> A somewhat bedraggled grey-haired dude limps in, drops a handful of
> Euros on the bar, accepts his Fosters from Mike and sits down in the
> most comfortable chair he can find. He takes a couple of sips and
> asks:
>
Is there any other kind? (in the UK manual transmission is the norm)
>
> 2. How far from home would you have to go to find an Indian
> restaurant?
1000 yards. two Indian take aways, one sit in, one take away chinese
and one sit it.
>
> 3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or even accidentally overheard, a
> conversation you weren't meant to hear?
>
many times - I have very good hearing.
> 4. How many different museums have you visited? What is your favorite
> one?
I lost count a long time ago. can't pick a favourite.
>
> 5. What board games did you like as a kid?
>
none
> 6. Have you ever saved someone's life?
>
yes
> 7. When was the last time you stubbed your toe so hard it brought tears
> to your eyes?
>
a couple of weeks ago.
Alison Hiltabidle
> A somewhat bedraggled grey-haired dude limps in, drops a handful of Euros on
> the bar, accepts his Fosters from Mike and sits down in the most comfortable
> chair he can find. He takes a couple of sips and asks:
>
> 1. Can you drive a stick shift?
>
> 2. How far from home would you have to go to find an Indian restaurant?
>
> 3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or even accidentally overheard, a
> conversation you weren't meant to hear?
About 1/2 hour - but it's a 1/2 hour to anything from where I live
>
> 4. How many different museums have you visited? What is your favorite one?
Don't know, but my favorite when I was a kid was the Smithsonian
>
> 5. What board games did you like as a kid?
>
Didn't play them
> 6. Have you ever saved someone's life?
Yes
>
> 7. When was the last time you stubbed your toe so hard it brought tears to
> your eyes?
>
Don't remember
> 8. What was your best "find" at a garage sale/flea market/rummage
> sale/thrift shop?
My desk
> 9. How about at a used book store?
Don't go to them
>
> 10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
>
When I rolled my car years and years ago.
Cindy Wells
4305-932b-8...@r42g2000yqj.googlegroups.com:
<snip>
>
> I'm with Rowan on this. My weight. I'm presently consuming 1,800
> calories and exercising for 45-60 minutes each day - and gaining
> weight.
Obviously, your exercise isn't burning as many calories as you think.
You might try dropping another 100-200 calories per day.
Cindy Wells
(Living on the family farm, I've got some days with my usual calorie
intake and my high calorie days. It depends on the amount of hay being
moved. Since we now bale small squares at ~75% of my weight, it gives a
really good workout.)
>
> --
> Mike
> _I Eat Vegetarians: Cows are vegetarians, aren't they?
> _Tag Lines: bumperstickers for your e-mail_
> http://wuf0170.livejournal.com
>
Alison Hiltabidle
> Mike Muth presented the following explanation :
>> A somewhat bedraggled grey-haired dude limps in, drops a handful of Euros
>> on the bar, accepts his Fosters from Mike and sits down in the most
>> comfortable chair he can find. He takes a couple of sips and asks:
>>
>> 1. Can you drive a stick shift?
>>
> Yes
>
>> 2. How far from home would you have to go to find an Indian restaurant?
OOPs. Obviously I missed one ... To get to anywhere is about a 1/2
hour, including indian, tex mex, vietnamese ...
>>
>> 3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or even accidentally overheard, a
>> conversation you weren't meant to hear?
>
Probably
Alan Follett
> A somewhat bedraggled grey-haired
> dude limps in, drops a handful of Euros
> on the bar, accepts his Fosters from
> Mike and sits down in the most
> comfortable chair he can find. He takes
> a couple of sips and asks:
> 1. Can you drive a stick shift?
No, I never found it necessary. I learned to drive, and got my first
license, only at age 39, by which time stick shifts were pretty much a
niche market item, at least in the US. 'Tweren't my niche.
> 2. How far from home would you have
> to go to find an Indian restaurant?
About three miles. Haweli, in Pinole, California.
> 3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or
> even accidentally overheard, a
> conversation you weren't meant to
> hear?
Eavesdropped, no. Accidentally overheard, all the time, especially
since the rise of cell phones. However, never one of any particular
interest to me, as far as I recall.
> 4. How many different museums have
> you visited? What is your favorite one?
At least a partial list would include:
Chicago: Art Institute, Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Science
and Indusrty, Field Museum, Adler Planetarium, Shedd Aquarium, Chicago
Historical Society, Chicago Academy of Sciences (now called something
else, I believe), Chicago Architecture Foundation.
San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, Asian Art Museum, DeYoung Museum, Cable Car Museum.
Washington: Various Smithsonian facilities.
New York: Guggenheim.
Dearborn, MI: Henry Ford Museum.
Reno, NV: National Automobile Museum.
Tucson, AZ: Pima Air and Space Museum.
Phoenix, AZ: Heard Museum, Phoenix Art Museum.
London: British Museum.
Victoria, BC: Royal British Columbia Museum.
Mexico City: Museo Nacional de Antropologia
Specialty railroad or street railway museums in numerous places
including Sacramento, Perris, and Rio Vista Junction, CA; Union and
South Elgin, IL; Baltimore, MD; Golden, CO; Didcot, UK; Nuremburg,
Germany.
I've doubtless forgotten any number of roadside "two arrowheads and a
stuffed armadillo" museums.
Favorite? Undoubtedly Chicago's MSI.
> 5. What board games did you like as a
> kid?
Checkers; a Monopoly ripoff called Big Business; and, at a slightly
later age, Scrabble.
> 6. Have you ever saved someone's life?
Not that I know of.
> 7. When was the last time you stubbed
> your toe so hard it brought tears to your
> eyes?
My usual reaction to such an event is more verbal than lachrymose.
> 8. What was your best "find" at a garage
> sale/flea market/rummage sale/thrift
> shop?
Nothing especially memorable. I've picked up quite a lot of neckties in
such venues.
> 9. How about at a used book store?
At the Brandeis Book Sale in Wilmette, Illinois maybe 25-30 years ago, a
circa-1900 set of the complete (to that date) works of Kipling, for
three bucks. As a bonus, I found four 1950-vintage five-dollar bills (a
bit dry, but perfectly negotiable) tucked into one of the volumes.
> 10. What is the closest to death you
> have ever come?
Around 1995, I was in the front passenger seat during a fairly nasty
front-end collision. Came away with nothing worse than a bit of chafing
from the shoulder bet, though both cars were totalled. Thank God for
seat belts!
> Today's bonus question:
> What is the one thing about you which
> you dislike the most/like the least?
Oh, I'm a pretty lazy old goomer.
Alan Follett
PhoenixWench
> A somewhat bedraggled grey-haired dude limps in, drops a handful of
> Euros on the bar, accepts his Fosters from Mike and sits down in the
> most comfortable chair he can find. He takes a couple of sips and asks:
>
> 1. Can you drive a stick shift?
>
> 2. How far from home would you have to go to find an Indian restaurant?
restaurant.... no idea but at least 50
>
> 3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or even accidentally overheard, a
> conversation you weren't meant to hear?
>
> 4. How many different museums have you visited? What is your favorite one?
>
> 5. What board games did you like as a kid?
>
> 6. Have you ever saved someone's life?
planned to commit suicide for a variety of what seemed perfectly viable
reasons at the time. She is no longer a newt - she got better ;-)
>
> 7. When was the last time you stubbed your toe so hard it brought tears
> to your eyes?
>
> 8. What was your best "find" at a garage sale/flea market/rummage
> sale/thrift shop?
condition. Over the years too many to count ;-)
>
> 9. How about at a used book store?
On the other hand I met Our Patron at one ;-)
>
> 10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
the red blood cells I should have had and landed me in the hospital for
a week, while they pumped 4 pints of whole blood and innumerable other
stuff into me. I nearly lost hubby to the same pneumonia that took Jim
Henson, and then again to a failing liver - he was given 3 months to
live and sent home to die with several pints of oral morphine to ease
the way. We got a second opinion and he is doing much better now.
>
> Today's bonus question:
>
> What is the one thing about you which you dislike the most/like the least?
>
Least - my propensity for procrastination
--
PhoenixWench
Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance but the counterfeit of it.
Both are despotisms: the one assumes to itself the right of withholding
liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.
-- Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
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Purple
> mike muth <mike.m...@unverbesserlich.org> wrote in news:62c6b5f0-e7fa-
> 4305-932b-8632ceece...@r42g2000yqj.googlegroups.com:
Cindy
Lets not forget that Muscle weighs more than fat, so you can be
loosing fat but not loosing weight.
My last Dr. told me to measure waist at least once a month, that it
was a more reliable way to determine weight loss.
Canth
wrote:
< SNIP >
>> 4. How many different museums have
>> you visited? What is your favorite one?
>
>At least a partial list would include:
>
>Chicago: Art Institute, Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Science
>and Indusrty, Field Museum, Adler Planetarium, Shedd Aquarium, Chicago
>Historical Society, Chicago Academy of Sciences (now called something
>else, I believe), Chicago Architecture Foundation.
>
>San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco Museum of
>Modern Art, Asian Art Museum, DeYoung Museum, Cable Car Museum.
>
>Washington: Various Smithsonian facilities.
>
>New York: Guggenheim.
>
>Dearborn, MI: Henry Ford Museum.
>
>Reno, NV: National Automobile Museum.
>
>Tucson, AZ: Pima Air and Space Museum.
>
>Phoenix, AZ: Heard Museum, Phoenix Art Museum.
>
>London: British Museum.
>
>Victoria, BC: Royal British Columbia Museum.
>
>Mexico City: Museo Nacional de Antropologia
>
>Specialty railroad or street railway museums in numerous places
>including Sacramento, Perris, and Rio Vista Junction, CA; Union and
>South Elgin, IL; Baltimore, MD; Golden, CO; Didcot, UK; Nuremburg,
>Germany.
>
>I've doubtless forgotten any number of roadside "two arrowheads and a
>stuffed armadillo" museums.
>
When touring the US thirty years ago, I came across a Transport Museum
in St Louis. They had a few trains [including a Union Pacific 4-8-8-4
Big Boy] and various cars & stuff. They had PLANS & the land to build
a huge theme park; I always wondered if they actually did.
>Favorite? Undoubtedly Chicago's MSI.
< SNIP >
AS! ds++:+++ a++ c+++ p++ t+ f-- S+ p+ e++ h++ r++ n++ i+ P+ m++ M
Chris Zakes
caused Mike Muth <mike...@unverbesserlich.org> to write:
>A somewhat bedraggled grey-haired dude limps in, drops a handful of
>Euros on the bar, accepts his Fosters from Mike and sits down in the
>most comfortable chair he can find. He takes a couple of sips and
>asks:
>
>1. Can you drive a stick shift?
Of course.
>2. How far from home would you have to go to find an Indian
>restaurant?
About six or seven miles. There's an Indian buffet place in a row of
restaurants across the parking lot from the local Home Depot. I tried
it once, but wasn't very impressed. Everything was either tasteless or
too spicy, no middle ground.
>3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or even accidentally overheard, a
>conversation you weren't meant to hear?
Sure.
>4. How many different museums have you visited? What is your favorite
>one?
Oh, good lord, too many to count. My favorite when I was a kid was the
Museum of Science and Industry, up in Chicago. I'm not sure I have a
"favorite" now... maybe the Higgins Armory in Massachusettts or the
Royal Armoury in Leeds.
Does the Tower of London qualify as a museum?
>5. What board games did you like as a kid?
Life was probably my favorite, followed by chess. Nowadays I prefer
Scrabble.
>6. Have you ever saved someone's life?
Not directly--as in pulling someone from a burning building--maybe
indirectly.
Does deciding to *not* succumb to temptation and hack someone to
pieces with the machete I was holding at the time count?
>7. When was the last time you stubbed your toe so hard it brought tears
>to your eyes?
Three or four weeks ago, walking out into the garage and I
inadvertantly kicked a piece of wood. My middle toe on that foot is
still a bit sore.
>8. What was your best "find" at a garage sale/flea market/rummage
>sale/thrift shop?
The Weatherby Arms Museum in Houston went belly-up in the late '70s
and auctioned off all their stuff. I got a pikeman's pot helm made by
the Armourer's Company of London back in the 1620s...
For $27.00.
I saw a similar piece (but in slightly worse shape than mine) on an
auction house website last year. It sold for over $1500.00.
>9. How about at a used book store?
A first paperback printing of Heinlein's "Assignment in Eternity"
(this one: http://www.wegrokit.com/aie50s.jpg ) The cover price is 25
cents, I paid $3.00. I expect someone who knew what they had would
charge ten times that, if not more.
>10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
Probably having my skull fractured by a hit-and-run driver, while
riding my bike home from college one evening.
>Today's bonus question:
>
>What is the one thing about you which you dislike the most/like the
>least?
After nearly 50 years of 20/20 vision, I now need reading glasses. If
I ever win the lottery, getting my eyes fixed is *real* high on my
list of things to do.
-Chris Zakes
Texas
There are no dangerous weapons, there are only dangerous men.
-Sgt, Zim in "Starship Troopers" by Robert Heinlein
Chris Zakes
caused Mike Huskey <mik...@nospam.com> to write:
>On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:07:00 +0200, Mike Muth <mike...@unverbesserlich.org>
>wrote:
>
>>1. Can you drive a stick shift?
>
>Yes, but I hate it.
>
>>2. How far from home would you have to go to find an Indian
>>restaurant?
>
>Less than five miles, though I've never had the guts to try the iffy looking
>place.
>
>>3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or even accidentally overheard, a
>>conversation you weren't meant to hear?
>
>Of course. "You have cocaine on your nose"
>
>This among other things makes me suspect that a local business is just a front
>for illegal activities.
>
>No, I'm not going to get involved.
Does your corner of the world have any kind of anonymous top line for
such things? If it bothers you, this might be a way to have it dealt
with, without getting "involved."
Wes Struebing
<mike...@unverbesserlich.org> wrote:
>A somewhat bedraggled grey-haired dude limps in, drops a handful of
>Euros on the bar, accepts his Fosters from Mike and sits down in the
>most comfortable chair he can find. He takes a couple of sips and
>asks:
>
>1. Can you drive a stick shift?
Can - and do currently
>
>2. How far from home would you have to go to find an Indian
>restaurant?
About 5 miles
>
>3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or even accidentally overheard, a
>conversation you weren't meant to hear?
I'm sure I have, but I've put it/them out of my mind.
>
>4. How many different museums have you visited? What is your favorite
>one?
Different as in kind? Or just different in numbers? Too many to
count, but Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry probably is still
my favorite. (followed by some of the British museums I've been to -
but not THE British Museum; it closed for the day by the time we got
there, and it was our last full day of our vacation)
>
>5. What board games did you like as a kid?
Sorry, Life, Risk. (Monopoly was OK, but I kept losing out too
quickly)
>
>6. Have you ever saved someone's life?
Possibly. A fellow worker started choking. She tried to get to the
restroom, but I could see she wasn't going to make it. So, I
performed the Heimlich on her and cleared her lungs. (didn't even
think - I just reacted. I realize after the fact that if she HAD
died, I could have been held liable)
>
>7. When was the last time you stubbed your toe so hard it brought tears
>to your eyes?
Probably about a year ago. Half asleep as usual, slammed big toe into
the baseboard of our vanity.
>
>8. What was your best "find" at a garage sale/flea market/rummage
>sale/thrift shop?
DW's bread machine.
>
>9. How about at a used book store?
Too many to count. Prolly some missing Heinleins.
>
>10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
Almost drowned as a sprite. Some nice teen-ager pulled me out of the
undertow.
>
>Today's bonus question:
>
>What is the one thing about you which you dislike the most/like the
>least?
The fact that I started smoking to begin with, let alone taking 30
years or so to quit.
HangingJester
> A somewhat bedraggled grey-haired dude limps in, drops a handful of
> Euros on the bar, accepts his Fosters from Mike and sits down in the
> most comfortable chair he can find. He takes a couple of sips and asks:
>
> 1. Can you drive a stick shift?
Yes, and I know know how to "double-clutch" (Necessary when driving my
1936 International Harvester truck.)
> 2. How far from home would you have to go to find an Indian restaurant?
I think about 8 miles
> 3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or even accidentally overheard, a
> conversation you weren't meant to hear?
Yes. (A good idea if you take a child to sit on Santa's lap.)
> 4. How many different museums have you visited? What is your favorite one?
There have been so many types I've lost track. The Smithsonian was my
favorite.
> 5. What board games did you like as a kid?
Hi Ho Cherry-O, Chutes and Ladders, Mousetrap, Monopoly,
> 6. Have you ever saved someone's life?
If "avoiding running over tourists or jaywalkers who suddenly stepped
out into traffic" counts, then yes. (A very common problem in Las Vegas)
> 7. When was the last time you stubbed your toe so hard it brought tears
> to your eyes?
11 Months ago. I thought I was going to lose the nail.
> 8. What was your best "find" at a garage sale/flea market/rummage
> sale/thrift shop?
My fully operational 1936 International Harvester truck that I bought
from Catholic Charities for $2,400.
> 9. How about at a used book store?
A complete Jewish encyclopedia set. (About Judiasm, mostly in English
with Jewish writing. It's a very interesting read.)
> 10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
Severe appendicitis in my childhood, rushed from our farmhouse to
Hospital E.R. and immediately prepped for surgery. I remember still Bits
and peices of the experience though I was nearly delirious at the time.
From falling in a faint, coming to in my grandfather's station wagon as
he was racing us to the hospital. Being taken out of the car and put on
a gurney, and entering the operating room and having the gas mask placed
over my face. The Doctor said that it was so inflamed it could have
burst at any time.
> Today's bonus question:
>
> What is the one thing about you which you dislike the most/like the least?
Coming from a relatively poor family, I was never able to pursue my
childhood dream of becoming an astronaut. And now it's too late. But I
can still dream.
~ Jester
Desideria
No Good Samaritan law where you are, Wes?
Desideria
Alan Follett
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:57:54 -0700,
> AFol...@webtv.net (Alan Follett) wrote:
< SNIP >
>>> 4. How many different museums have
>>> you visited? What is your favorite one?
< SNIP >
>> Specialty railroad or street railway
>> museums in numerous places
>> including Sacramento, Perris, and Rio
>> Vista Junction, CA; Union and South
>> Elgin, IL; Baltimore, MD; Golden, CO;
>> Didcot, UK; Nuremburg, Germany.
< SNIP >
> When touring the US thirty years ago, I
> came across a Transport Museum in St
> Louis. They had a few trains [including a
> Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy] and
> various cars & stuff. They had PLANS &
> the land to build a huge theme park; I
> always wondered if they actually did.
They're still around, and one of our premier museums for both railways
and other forms of transportation, but nothing as grandiose as a theme
park was ever built. Probably just as well; that would undoubtedly have
led to a loss of focus on the actual transportation collection, as well
as being somewhat dubious as a commercial enterprise.
http://transportmuseumassociation.org/
Alan Follett
Clothahump
> A somewhat bedraggled grey-haired dude limps in, drops a handful of
> Euros on the bar, accepts his Fosters from Mike and sits down in the
> most comfortable chair he can find. He takes a couple of sips and asks:
>
> 1. Can you drive a stick shift?
>
> 2. How far from home would you have to go to find an Indian restaurant?
>
> 3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or even accidentally overheard, a
> conversation you weren't meant to hear?
>
> 4. How many different museums have you visited? What is your favorite one?
Museums because they have the coolest games. I'm sorry the kids are
grown and gone, from that aspect. I dearly want to go spend a week or
more in the Smithsonian.
>
> 5. What board games did you like as a kid?
>
> 6. Have you ever saved someone's life?
like that hard and heavy for a while. The last time was more than 10
years ago. The kids were still young and we were at the mall when a guy
in front of us went down hard. I initiated CPR and when EMS arrived, he
had a heartbeat and was still ticking when they loaded him on the
ambulance. I count him as a save, even though I don't know if he made
it in the long run.
>
> 7. When was the last time you stubbed your toe so hard it brought tears
> to your eyes?
>
> 8. What was your best "find" at a garage sale/flea market/rummage
> sale/thrift shop?
>
> 9. How about at a used book store?
is going to suffer severe financial difficulties. I've filled out
several author collections there.
>
> 10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
out on the spot, I would have to guess a car wreck back in 1978.
>
> Today's bonus question:
>
> What is the one thing about you which you dislike the most/like the least?
ka.mi...@gmail.com
> A somewhat bedraggled grey-haired dude limps in, drops a handful of
> Euros on the bar, accepts his Fosters from Mike and sits down in the
> most comfortable chair he can find. He takes a couple of sips and
> asks:
>
> 1. Can you drive a stick shift?
No.
> 2. How far from home would you have to go to find an Indian
> restaurant?
500 m
> 3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or even accidentally overheard, a
> conversation you weren't meant to hear?
Probably, but I always make an effort to
"unhear" what I heard and forget what I
should not have found out.
> 4. How many different museums have you visited? What is your favorite
> one?
Dunno. Around a dozen I guess. I'm
partially to the ROM here in Toronto, but
that's probably because, being the one I
was most recently at, it's the one that I
remember best.
> 5. What board games did you like as a kid?
All of them. The Game of Life, Monotony,
Chess, Backgammon, etc.
> 6. Have you ever saved someone's life?
Not that I am aware of.
> 7. When was the last time you stubbed your toe so hard it brought tears
> to your eyes?
Dunno. I try not to remember these sorts
of things. I do recall a time about six years
ago when I dropped a fully loaded backpack
on my foot. It was an external frame pack,
and we were heading out camping so it had
about twenty kilograms of stuff in it. One of
the frame pieces caught me in the toe. That
certainly brought tears to my eyes.
> 8. What was your best "find" at a garage sale/flea market/rummage
> sale/thrift shop?
A Hawaiian shirt. Three bucks, and I wore it
to death.
> 9. How about at a used book store?
A box full of Erle Stanley Gardners, about
eighty books with some duplicates. $5.
> 10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
The story my parents tell is that when I was
two and a half, I somehow managed to get
the refridgerator open, climb up to the top
shelf and score a bottle of cough medication.
Apparently I drank enough to put myself in a
coma. I was rushed to hospital and had my
stomach pumped. They tell me that I actually
flatlined for a short while.
> Today's bonus question:
>
> What is the one thing about you which you dislike the most/like the
> least?
Well there's a tough one. Generally speaking
I'm pretty happy with who I am. I guess the
one thing I dislike most is that sometimes I have
difficulty conveying exactly what I mean to people
I'm talking to. I'm not very good at using tone of
voice to convey things. Sometimes I sound like
I'm angry when I'm really just enthusiastic.
Magus Firecow.
Wes Struebing
I think there is, dear, but you see, I've never been formally trained
to perform the Heimlich maneuver, so...
MajorOz
> A somewhat bedraggled grey-haired dude limps in, drops a handful of
> Euros on the bar, accepts his Fosters from Mike and sits down in the
> most comfortable chair he can find. He takes a couple of sips and
> asks:
>
> 1. Can you drive a stick shift?
Sure
>
> 2. How far from home would you have to go to find an Indian
> restaurant?
At least 60 miles (and even then, I'm not sure: but there are Thai
restaurants there)
>
> 3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or even accidentally overheard, a
> conversation you weren't meant to hear?
Yes
>
> 4. How many different museums have you visited? What is your favorite
> one?
Hundreds.
The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago or the Winter Palace in
St. Perersburg
>
> 5. What board games did you like as a kid?
Chess, Monopoly, Chinese checkers
>
> 6. Have you ever saved someone's life?
Many times, as I have been a lifeguard since the age of about 13.
Even saved an electrocuted drunk at a party.
>
> 7. When was the last time you stubbed your toe so hard it brought tears
> to your eyes?
Don't remember
>
> 8. What was your best "find" at a garage sale/flea market/rummage
> sale/thrift shop?
A set of those very fragile Japanese crockery dishes -- service for 8,
with servers, tureens, etc -- for $10. Rural road yard sale.
>
> 9. How about at a used book store?
A number of first editions. Probably my favorite was _A Door Into
Summer_ by Heinlein
>
> 10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
Rim-rocked in colorado. Spend the night on the shelf and a passing
climber got me off the next day.
>
> Today's bonus question:
>
> What is the one thing about you which you dislike the most/like the
> least?
pass -- tmi
cheers
oz, getting ready for Labor Day weekend in Mt. View AR -- yee-hawwwwww
Denny Wheeler
<ahilt...@verizon.net> wrote:
(included for context)
>> 8. What was your best "find" at a garage sale/flea market/rummage
>> sale/thrift shop?
...
>> 9. How about at a used book store?
>
>Don't go to them
(Boggle)
You must be the only Patron who can honestly say that.
--
-denny-
Some people are offence kleptomaniacs -- whenever they see
an offence that isn't nailed down, they take it ;-)
--David C. Pugh, in alt.callahans
Know the signs!
http://www.heartinfo.org/ms/guides/9/main.html
Denny Wheeler
>A somewhat bedraggled grey-haired dude limps in, drops a handful of
>Euros on the bar, accepts his Fosters from Mike and sits down in the
>most comfortable chair he can find. He takes a couple of sips and
>asks:
>
>1. Can you drive a stick shift?
ummm... the 4th car I owned, and the 6th, were automatics. None of
the most recent 4 have been. I think that answers it. But--I was
driving a manual-transmission tractor by the time I was 10. Woulda
been sooner, but I couldn't reach the pedals well enough 'til then.
>2. How far from home would you have to go to find an Indian
>restaurant?
Probably not far--but that's just about the last kind of restaurant
I'd go find. I cross the street to avoid them, when walking. (fumes
from scorched curry)
>3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or even accidentally overheard, a
>conversation you weren't meant to hear?
Yeah. Many times. Several of which I regretted due to the content.
>4. How many different museums have you visited? What is your favorite
>one?
Not sure how many. Of the ones I remember for sure--and there are a
fair number I want to visit still--it's very close between MoHaI and
the EMP. Oh. Sorry. MoHaI: Museum of History and Industry in
Seattle. EMP is the Experience Music Project, a Jimi Hendrix-themed
rock museum built by Paul Allen.
>5. What board games did you like as a kid?
Depends on def. of 'kid' - until I was around 12 or 13, I never
played, nor saw, any board games. Played canasta and pinochle,
though. When I learned Monopoly, that became a fave, along with Sorry
and The Game of Life.
>6. Have you ever saved someone's life?
My own, by leaping to the curb one time. Otherwise, not afaik.
>7. When was the last time you stubbed your toe so hard it brought tears
>to your eyes?
not the first clue.
>8. What was your best "find" at a garage sale/flea market/rummage
>sale/thrift shop?
mmmm....probably a book, but nothing really comes to mind.
>9. How about at a used book store?
I haven't enough time to type that list.
>10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
Druther not describe those circs, tyvm.
>Today's bonus question:
>
>What is the one thing about you which you dislike the most/like the
>least?
My physical condition--which is largely due to the OTHER thing I'm not
fond of, namely my indolence. At least, wrt a number of activities,
I'm indolent.
Denny Wheeler
<mike...@unverbesserlich.org> wrote:
>I think I've already written about the annoying twit who wouldn't stop
>talking on his cell phone.
Which one, of the (likely) hundreds?
<g>
Alison Hiltabidle
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:07:14 -0400, Alison Hiltabidle
> <ahilt...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> (included for context)
>>> 8. What was your best "find" at a garage sale/flea market/rummage
>>> sale/thrift shop?
> ...
>>> 9. How about at a used book store?
>>
>> Don't go to them
>
> (Boggle)
> You must be the only Patron who can honestly say that.
It's easy. I live in the country. I'm lucky that there's a grocery
store within 10 minutes, let alone a bookstore. I used to go to some
used bookstores when I lived in Baltimore City, but that has been 20
years ago.
Denny Wheeler
wrote:
>> 8. What was your best "find" at a garage sale/flea market/rummage
>> sale/thrift shop?
>I've never bought anything at a sale like that.
But Chuck--you can almost always find great deals on books at such
places/sales. Way better than even HPB.
Denny Wheeler
<hangin...@cox.net> wrote:
>> 10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
>
>Severe appendicitis in my childhood, rushed from our farmhouse to
>Hospital E.R. and immediately prepped for surgery. I remember still Bits
>and peices of the experience though I was nearly delirious at the time.
> From falling in a faint, coming to in my grandfather's station wagon as
>he was racing us to the hospital. Being taken out of the car and put on
>a gurney, and entering the operating room and having the gas mask placed
>over my face. The Doctor said that it was so inflamed it could have
>burst at any time.
That's very close to my 'appendix experience'. Bloody painful, wasn't
it?
PhoenixWench
radius. Now there are two if I am willing to drive 45 minutes (or have
time and money to stop at one during one of my bi-monthly grocery
trips). Happily the local library system is very good about sharing
books, and the yard sales & flea markets usually have some reasonable
deals.
John W. Vinson
<ahilt...@verizon.net> wrote:
>It's easy. I live in the country. I'm lucky that there's a grocery
>store within 10 minutes, let alone a bookstore.
We do our grocery shopping in Nampa - 45 minutes away. The nearest good
bookshop is in Boise, an hour's drive.
--
John the Wysard JVinson *at* Wysard Of Info *dot* com
Wes Struebing
<den...@TANSTAAFL.zipcon.net.INVALID> wrote:
>On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:45:39 -0700, HangingJester
><hangin...@cox.net> wrote:
>
>>> 10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
>>
>>Severe appendicitis in my childhood, rushed from our farmhouse to
>>Hospital E.R. and immediately prepped for surgery. I remember still Bits
>>and peices of the experience though I was nearly delirious at the time.
>> From falling in a faint, coming to in my grandfather's station wagon as
>>he was racing us to the hospital. Being taken out of the car and put on
>>a gurney, and entering the operating room and having the gas mask placed
>>over my face. The Doctor said that it was so inflamed it could have
>>burst at any time.
>
>That's very close to my 'appendix experience'. Bloody painful, wasn't
>it?
And mine. Minus the delirious, but otherwise...
Canth
Actually, now you talk about it, I'll join that list. Adult not
child, but the pain & delirium were there. To complicate the issue, a
very non-standard appendix put the symptoms in the "wrong" place, so
the surgeons had no idea what was wrong & what they would find. As to
pain, nothing on stones - gall bladder or kidney.
Desideria
wrote:
I can't compare. My appendix was taken out during exploratory surgery
in 1977. The gall stones, I remember very well.
Desideria
John W. Vinson
wrote:
>I was in an Olive Garden with some friends. A guy at the next table
>got a phone call and would not hang up. It was, from hearing his side
>of the conversation for nearly half an hour, a trivial discussion which
>did not need to happen just then. The jerk was also over-loud (and in
>an Olive Garden, that is saying something). As we were settling our
>bill, I mentioned to the waitress that I had heard him say that it was
>his birthday. The clapping started as we were nearing the door...
Oh. My. God.
"Barkeep, Mike's next four drinks are covered, if he's willing..."
Jette Goldie
I remember the kidney stone incident some years ago (gosh, 20 years
already?) which the A&E junior doctor was convinced was appendicitis,
so he had me lined up (but not prepped) for surgery. Ergo, no pain
relief because it might interfere with the anaesthetic.
I was NOT "close to death" - I just wished I was.
--
Jette Goldie
jette....@gmail.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfette/
http://www.jette.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
http://wolfette.livejournal.com/
("reply to" is spamblocked - use the email addy in sig)
HangingJester
> On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:45:39 -0700, HangingJester
> <hangin...@cox.net> wrote:
>
>>> 10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
>> Severe appendicitis in my childhood, rushed from our farmhouse to
>> Hospital E.R. and immediately prepped for surgery. I remember still Bits
>> and peices of the experience though I was nearly delirious at the time.
>> From falling in a faint, coming to in my grandfather's station wagon as
>> he was racing us to the hospital. Being taken out of the car and put on
>> a gurney, and entering the operating room and having the gas mask placed
>> over my face. The Doctor said that it was so inflamed it could have
>> burst at any time.
>
> That's very close to my 'appendix experience'. Bloody painful, wasn't
> it?
>
As I recall, yes! I was seven at the time.
~ Jester
MajorOz
> > 4. How many different museums have you visited? What is your favorite
> > one?
>
> Hundreds.
> The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago or the Winter Palace in
> St. Perersburg
....duh ! ......
the SUMMER palace
oz, getting old
Wes Struebing
<mike...@unverbesserlich.org> wrote:
>Denny Wheeler wrote :
>> On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:10:06 -0700 (PDT), mike muth
>> <mike...@unverbesserlich.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I think I've already written about the annoying twit who wouldn't stop
>>> talking on his cell phone.
>>
>> Which one, of the (likely) hundreds?
>> <g>
>
>I was in an Olive Garden with some friends. A guy at the next table
>got a phone call and would not hang up. It was, from hearing his side
>of the conversation for nearly half an hour, a trivial discussion which
>did not need to happen just then. The jerk was also over-loud (and in
>an Olive Garden, that is saying something). As we were settling our
>bill, I mentioned to the waitress that I had heard him say that it was
>his birthday. The clapping started as we were nearing the door...
Poetic justice, Mike! Good job!
Wes Struebing
Those kinds of pain where you are afraid you WON'T die, right?
(shudderingly remembering my cluster headaches)
Wes Struebing
Ooh! Ditto. Just turned - was in 1st Grade...
MajorOz
> MajorOz wrote :
>
> BOYC?
Danke
Spice tea, please, as the temp is dropping rapidly.
cheers
oz
Firesong
<mike...@unverbesserlich.org> wrote:
>A somewhat bedraggled grey-haired dude limps in, drops a handful of
>Euros on the bar, accepts his Fosters from Mike and sits down in the
>most comfortable chair he can find. He takes a couple of sips and
>asks:
>
>1. Can you drive a stick shift?
>
I'm in the U.K. 'stick shift' is mostly what we get.
>2. How far from home would you have to go to find an Indian
>restaurant?
>
1/4 mile
>3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or even accidentally overheard, a
>conversation you weren't meant to hear?
>
All the time.
>4. How many different museums have you visited? What is your favorite
>one?
>
Umm tens of museums, "The Science Museum", London.
>5. What board games did you like as a kid?
>
Cluedo
>6. Have you ever saved someone's life?
>
Ummm, I've mostly not killed people. (Potential car accidents etc).
>7. When was the last time you stubbed your toe so hard it brought tears
>to your eyes?
About 2 months ago.
>
>8. What was your best "find" at a garage sale/flea market/rummage
>sale/thrift shop?
Can't say I remember anything.
>
>9. How about at a used book store?
>
Some 'Saint' books.
>10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
>
Apart from anaesthesia? Tough one, I've fallen from a few trees, and
gulped some water while swimming. Ooh that reminds me, I was very
nearly 'swept out to sea' once...
>Today's bonus question:
>
>What is the one thing about you which you dislike the most/like the
>least?
My weight.
Firesong
Erin
> 1. Can you drive a stick shift?
Yep. We have one standard and one automatic. My son is learning on
both, but he already prefers the standard (and I prefer him to drive
the standard -- I think it helps keep new drivers focused on *driving*
rather than on other distractions)
> 2. How far from home would you have to go to find an Indian
> restaurant?
About three miles. It's one of our favorite places to go. They do a
fantastic lunch buffet AND they have delivery.
> 3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or even accidentally overheard, a
> conversation you weren't meant to hear?
Yes, but I try very hard not to.
> 4. How many different museums have you visited? What is your favorite
> one?
No idea how many -- lots. Hard to narrow down my favorite. My
"favorite" depended on my mood at the time, I think.
> 5. What board games did you like as a kid?
Loved Monopoly and Clue and Mastermind. Played a lot of Payday and Go
To The Head Of The Class.
> 6. Have you ever saved someone's life?
Not directly, no.
However, I've been an elementary school teacher for about 11 years now
and have taught over 200 kiddos how to read -- I'm sure that,
somewhere down the line, that will lead to someone saving *someone's*
life :-). I know that one student from my first year of teaching is
now an EMT (he was a third grader when I had him -- started the year
not reading, finished the year reading, so I'm taking some credit for
that one <g>)
> 7. When was the last time you stubbed your toe so hard it brought tears
> to your eyes?
Last week.
> 8. What was your best "find" at a garage sale/flea market/rummage
> sale/thrift shop?
I tend to avoid garage sales and the like. However, if you count
clothing resale shops as "thrift" stores, I was able to do almost all
of my daughter's back-to-school clothing shopping for under $100. We
hit the 75% off sale at the upscale resale shop downtown (fwiw, the
same one Sarah Palin touted during her campaign "shopping spree"
scandal). We were able to get 2 skirts, 8 pairs of jeans, a dress,
two pairs of shoes, and 2 pairs of slacks (all highish-end brand
labels) for $85. It was a whim that we even went in that day (it was
the first time I'd been there).
> 9. How about at a used book store?
Nothing specific, but I buy a LOT of my books at my favorite used book
store. I tend to buy the new titles at B&N since I've got a
"membership" and get a discount.
> 10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
I don't think I ever really have been truly close to death.
Erin
Hanging Jester
news:77so95d3go3drgs3g...@4ax.com:
Is that the kind that feels like some invisible person on random
occasion and without warning suddenly drives a pick-axe into the back of
your head?
~ Jester
Cindy Wells
news:Xns9C7F9962A4E2ha...@69.16.185.247:
> Wes Struebing <str...@carpedementem.org> wrote in
> news:77so95d3go3drgs3g...@4ax.com:
>
<snip>
>>
>> Those kinds of pain where you are afraid you WON'T die, right?
>>
>> (shudderingly remembering my cluster headaches)
>>
>
>
> Is that the kind that feels like some invisible person on random
> occasion and without warning suddenly drives a pick-axe into the back
of
> your head?
>
> ~ Jester
>
The cluster headache def that I know is a recurrent ha that lasts
several hours (but not as long as a migraine). Often they are daily and
last 1-3 hours. Patients frequently find moving better than staying
still. Then after several days or weeks, the headache just stops
returning for a while. When the cycle will start up again will be random
for many. Fortunately, many cluster patients can now find useful
treatments. (The best for many is breathing oxygen at a higher rate than
usually used for someone with lung problems. Others can take a triptan
(like Imitrex) if they get it for the daily use; there are some docs and
more insurance companies (at least in the US) who don't like patients
taking it that often.)
The invisible person with a pick-axe is an icepick ha if the pain lasts
a very short time. (Depending on the doctor, one "medical name" is a
transient idiopathic headache.) Most icepicks last less than 30 seconds.
Cindy Wells
(I get migraines and icepick headaches. The icepicks are so distracting
that IMO they are worse than the migraines even with an aura.)
Wes Struebing
<hangin...@cox.net> wrote:
>Wes Struebing <str...@carpedementem.org> wrote in
>news:77so95d3go3drgs3g...@4ax.com:
<snip>
>>
>> (shudderingly remembering my cluster headaches)
>>
>
>
>Is that the kind that feels like some invisible person on random
>occasion and without warning suddenly drives a pick-axe into the back of
>your head?
>
Close. It always was a dwarf wearing hobnail boots kicking the back
of my right eye. Problem once I realized it was clusters, I knew he
was going to do it - and there was absolutely nothing I could do about
it.
Hanging Jester
Maybe you should stop drinking with Clusters the tap-dancing dwarf.
I never got that one thankfully. I never did figure out what was causing
the "pickaxe" headaches. It would just strike for two or three time a
month for about 20-40 minutes then go away for months. Went on for the
first three years after I moved to the Las Vegas Valley, but I haven't
had another for the last twelve years.
~ Jester
MargW
questions
> I'm running late on these, but better late than never, I suppose :-)
>
>> 1. Can you drive a stick shift?
Yes - and I prefer stick.
>
>> 2. How far from home would you have to go to find an Indian
>> restaurant?
About 20 miles - haven't had a chance to try it out yet
>
>> 3. Have you ever eavesdropped on, or even accidentally overheard, a
>> conversation you weren't meant to hear?
>
Oh yah - I was in a bathroom stall at work one time as two people who
were in the class I was teaching talked about me. Not sure who was more
shocked when I came out to wash my hands.......
>
>> 4. How many different museums have you visited? What is your favorite
>> one?
>
Many - probably my two favs are the British Museum, and the Royal
Ontario Museum (in Toronto)
>
>> 5. What board games did you like as a kid?
Monopoly - also Parcheesi
>
>> 6. Have you ever saved someone's life?
>
Not as far as I am aware
>
>
>
>> 7. When was the last time you stubbed your toe so hard it brought tears
>> to your eyes?
>
Don't remember
>
>> 8. What was your best "find" at a garage sale/flea market/rummage
>> sale/thrift shop?
>
Lladro Polar Bear - paid 25 cents at a garage sale - saw it in a shop
retail for $125
>
>
>> 9. How about at a used book store?
Needlework books
>
>> 10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
>
Last week - if the seat belts and air bags hadn't done the job (or
earlier in the day if my helmet and riding gear hadn't worked)
>
> Erin
Marg
Desideria
wrote:
(snip)
>>> 10. What is the closest to death you have ever come?
>>
>
>Last week - if the seat belts and air bags hadn't done the job (or
>earlier in the day if my helmet and riding gear hadn't worked)
>>
>> Erin
>
>
>Marg
If you don't mind my asking, Marg, are you saying that you had TWO
accidents in one day???
If so, OMG...I'm very glad you're still around, hon!!! :-)
Desideria
Ree
Hope the wrist and ribs are feeling better (((Marg))). I tried to be
gentle there and not hurt you further.
Ree
MargW
Yes - I hadn't mentioned the second one since we both walked away with
only scrapes and bruises. It was 2 a.m. after the DH had picked me up.
I was asleep. We think he fell asleep, too. Luckily, he'd been
keeping the speed down due to lots of wildlife. Th Vue is completely
written off.
MargW
Desideria
wrote:
What a miserable day that must've been for you.
I'm glad you weren't hurt much more on the 2nd accident. Sending
gentle hugs in the direction of you and hubby.
Please take care of yourself, hon!
Desideria