Oh, yeah, the folks doing the flinging into the water. Damn, the g-forces alone would be hell on an unsecured person. I'm amazed it wasn't a snapped neck.

Still . . . It'd be the kind of thing you'd think of doing if your doctor said, "You've got six months to live, go, have fun."

Thinking of Chris' piano fling. Only vaguely on topic, but a very happy television memory that pops in my head at weird times.

When I had mono, the docter told me that I could have been carrying it for a while and only got sick because I was under a lot of stress at the time.

The virus that causes infectious mononucleosis is Epstein-Barr, and by the time you get to your 30s, nearly everyone (in the United States, at least) has been exposed to it at least once and is therefore a carrier.

In young children, active illness resembles any other minor viral illness; it's "self-limiting," meaning it goes away on its own like the common cold.

If a person avoids exposure to EBV as a child and only becomes exposed during adolescence or young adulthood, roughly half will still be asymptomatic and/or very mildly ill, but the other half will get the swollen glands and paralyzing fatigue that everyone thinks of when they hear mono. It's not wildly common to get to adolescence without being exposed to EBV, so most people go through life without ever getting really sick from it.

It'd be the kind of thing you'd think of doing if your doctor said, "You've got six months to live, go, have fun."

And don't mind spending the last five in a hospital bed, with something breathing for you.

::shuddering at the thought of BEING flung::

Chris who?

Chris who?

Chris in the Morning on Northern Exposure, who flung a piano.

Chris on Northern Exposure

Chris in the Morning! swoon I love Chris in the Morning and wish it was a real radio show. Teri Gross and Fresh Air scratch the itch, though.

Henceforth, today shall be known as The Day of the Trebuchet X-Posts.

I wanna fling dead cars.