Medical question:
Patriots player Rodney Harrison tore his ACL, MCL, and PCL yesterday in a game.
Once you've torn your ACL, MCL, and PCL, can't we just say he "tore his knee?" I mean, does he have any ligaments left?
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dw - Sep 26, 2005 4:56:57 pm PDT #1078 of 10002
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§ ita § - Sep 26, 2005 4:57:10 pm PDT #1079 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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I came home to do laundry or work out and to skip the flexibility class. But then I saw my cuddle lounge, and I'll lie down for another few minutes and then go stretch at krav. And there will be KC for me when I return! And Prison Break! Oh, the hawtness.
Kalshane - Sep 26, 2005 5:01:31 pm PDT #1080 of 10002
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Lee - Sep 26, 2005 5:03:50 pm PDT #1081 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Has anyone been watching Supernatural? I am watching last week's Easy View, and I like it, but I wish I knew what had happened in the premiere. Can anyone summarize for me?
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Jessica - Sep 26, 2005 5:04:48 pm PDT #1082 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I can't believe the numbers of you who haven't seen BC before.
Tep and who else?
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Jesse - Sep 26, 2005 5:08:47 pm PDT #1083 of 10002
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Scrappy - Sep 26, 2005 5:10:09 pm PDT #1084 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
BC seems a little, I dunno, hatchet-faced to me. Gorgeous eyes but not on my list.
Nutty - Sep 26, 2005 5:12:59 pm PDT #1085 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Once you've torn your ACL, MCL, and PCL, can't we just say he "tore his knee?" I mean, does he have any ligaments left?
In fact, there are seven knee ligaments, if I am counting correctly. They are the patellar, oblique popliteal, arcuate popliteal, tibial collateral, fibular collateral, and anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments. The MCL you're referring to is, I am guessing, the meniscus? Or medial condyle.
(Owning an anatomy textbook is a wonderful thing.)
Still, yes, I would say if you're up to three torn items in one knee, then just say that the knee is frelled.
OTOH, it drives me nuts when sportswriters don't differentiate between the rotator cuff and the labrum. One is basically fatal to pitching careers, while the other is not.
Emily - Sep 26, 2005 5:14:53 pm PDT #1086 of 10002
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Anyone around who can answer a matrix multiplication question? Can't remember if the determinants of the two matrices to be multiplied can tell us anything about the determinant of the product.
§ ita § - Sep 26, 2005 5:18:09 pm PDT #1087 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Emily, the product of the determinants is the determinant of the matrix product.
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