Received: by 10.68.125.201 with SMTP id ms9mr3650339pbb.3.1337123109224; Tue, 15 May 2012 16:05:09 -0700 (PDT) Path: pr3ni3072pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!volia.net!news2.volia.net!feed-A.news.volia.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dragon Lady" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: [TV Party] The Great Superhero Science Fiction Bust of 1977-1978 Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 17:05:04 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 60 Message-ID: References: <010520120802268239%bubba@nowhere.edu.invalid> <050520120325047040%bubba@nowhere.edu.invalid> <050520121625227776%bubba@nowhere.edu.invalid> <050520122255116469%bubba@nowhere.edu.invalid> <070520121231170139%bubba@nowhere.edu.invalid> <090520122312407491%bubba@nowhere.edu.invalid> <110520121817375661%bubba@nowhere.edu.invalid> <110520122225377886%bubba@nowhere.edu.invalid> Reply-To: "Dragon Lady" Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 23:05:08 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="cKM91hz78MZcyM0HzruMlw"; logging-data="16083"; mail-complaints-to="ab...@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+qQ7hw98ExklO26p8Y4SwV" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 Cancel-Lock: sha1:p6oRKUaf2s57aw/bf1KK/8LE2V4= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Professor Bubba" wrote in message news:110520122225377886%bubba@nowhere.edu.invalid... > In article , Dragon Lady > wrote: > >> "Professor Bubba" wrote in message >> news:110520121817375661%bubba@nowhere.edu.invalid... >> > In article , Dragon Lady >> > wrote: >> > >> >> "Professor Bubba" wrote in message >> >> news:090520122312407491%bubba@nowhere.edu.invalid... >> >> > In article , Jim G. >> >> > wrote: >> >> > >> >> >> So it seems that the heart attack *started* the process, which >> >> >> makes >> >> >> sense in one way, as it takes a panic heart attack out of the >> >> >> equation >> >> >> when there might not have been all that much reason to panic from >> >> >> just >> >> >> hitting the water. But it doesn't explain how he ended up in the >> >> >> water >> >> >> in the first place. He must have been close enough to the water >> >> >> that >> >> >> the >> >> >> heart attack caused him to end up *in* the water when he collapsed. >> >> >> Was >> >> >> he home alone at the time of all of this? >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > He was in the pool, swimming for exercise. >> >> >> >> I find that extremely iffy. Who swims for exercise when they have a >> >> broken >> >> leg? >> > >> > >> > People with broken legs exercise in pools all the time. I guess Joe >> > was dog-paddling or something, but the story is that he was exercising, >> > and no one's ever challenged it. If Joe felt anything like I did when >> > I was in a cast for more than two months, the enforced inactivity was >> > probably driving him nuts. I didn't have access to a pool back then, >> > but if I had, I'd probably have been in the pool, too. >> >> Never having broken a limb, I can only imagine what it would be like, but >> it >> seems like there would have been other things to do for exercise than >> swimming in a (water-soluble, plaster) cast. > > > There's already been chat here about how you could protect a plaster > cast in the water (or the shower, or the bath) back in the day. Yeah, I have yet to see one that doesn't leak. You're not talking about a shower, you're talking about being *in* the water, ie: soaking the thing. Also, those casts can't be light weight. It would be like trying to swim with weights on your legs/arms.