I have a great and weird fondness for the Abbott & Costello Babes in Toyland which has so many great-to-me bits in it, including the world's smallest barrage-by-blimp, and of course, a disastrous mistake in the size of wooden soldiers, long before Spinal Tap was ordering a Stonehenge replica for their stage show.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Anyone know much about the very early history of the Bible? Is the stuff here pretty much accepted by Bible history scholars?
It doesn't sound that far out. Its commonly accepted that three of the gospels are based on one another and the fourth is not. I don't know if the assertion of contentiousness is widespread but I imagine the view exists in various forms.
And I can't speak off the top of my head, but different officials behaved and were regarded differently in different eras and by different people -- but I don't know how much of that is a "battleground". One guys battleground is another's healthy debate.
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Yeah. My mom had enormous issues with the insurance company when she opted for tubal litigation. My brother was 9 and I was 13, and she was sure she didn't want any more children at that point. But she was 30, and got the same bullshit from insurance. Fortunately, my mom's doctor fought with them on it, but it seemed a demeaning process.
tommyrot, the only thing I can come close to coming up with is that a lot of fake fur is synthetic and therefore petroleum products. I don't know. I'm grasping here.
You know, if I saw my doctor's name on that article, I'd be finding a new doctor.
she opted for tubal litigation.
You mean tubal ligation, right?
ahhhh ha ha! Funny brain fart!
No, but seriously, her tubes were suing her ovaries. It was a lengthy court battle and I can't believe no one told me about that.
You all would let me walk around with toilet paper on my shoe, wouldn't you?
Oddly, I don't have that much of an issue with the doctor. I would rather a doctor really lay it on the line what I could be facing, the consequences of what it is I want done, and bring up possible changes in my life. Now, I'd be pissed if, after I was informed of all of that and still wanted it done, he refused, but I can't fault a doctor for A) giving me all the information I need, even if I don't want it or B) having an internal struggle with it. I would far rather have a doctor that sometimes struggles with what the patient wants vs what might be a "better" decision, than one that just say, "You want it, fine - I'll do it."
I would imagine that doctors go through many internal struggles with their patients. Oncologists, for example who have patients that just don't want to fight their illness anymore.
Ah! That is pretty funny.
I clicked on one of the ads on my Gmail page, for unusual gift ideas. Not that I'm really buying this year, but I'm always curious...
What a crock! It took me to a directory page (that looks like the one you get when you mis-type an URL and they're reselling ad space. Outback Steakhouse is an unusual gift idea? Not in the good way. Weirdos. I guess they make enough money reselling that space to pay Google to advertise them. Soon, we will run out of product and just have ads.