Post 744 - Public Service Announcement - Sigmoidoscopy (nudge nudge wink wink)

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT - ETIQUETTE DURING SIGMOIDOSCOPIES

WHILE POLITELY DESCRIBED AS A SIMILAR SENSATION TO BEING CONFINED IN A TURKISH PRISON, SIGMOIDOSCOPIES HAVE A VALUABLE PLACE IN A PHYSICIAN'S DIAGNOSTIC TOOLBOX.

THERE ARE SOME RULES THAT SHOULD BE FOLLOWED:

(1) FAINTING AT THE SIGHT OF THE MAMMOTH HOSE ABOUT TO VIOLATE YOUR BODY IS PERMITTED; HOWEVER, AVOID COMMENTS LIKE, "HEY BUDDY, JUST WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING TO DO WITH THAT THING?"  SUCH COMMENTS ARE RUDE, AND YOU WILL FIND OUT SOON ENOUGH ANYWAY.

(2) REFRAIN FROM EATING BEANS, ONIONS, OR CURRIED SHRIMP THE NIGHT BEFORE THE PROCEDURE.  THIS IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE OTHERS IN THE ROOM, SINCE YOU WILL BE AN UNCONSCIOUS, JELLYLIKE MASS BY THIS TIME.

(3) BE VERY KIND TO THOSE PERFORMING THE PROCEDURE.  REMEMBER, YOU ARE PROBABLY UNCONSCIOUS AND WILL NOT FEEL SOMETHING LIKE A TATOO BEING PUT IN A PLACE YOU WILL NEVER SEE.

REMEMBER THESE SIMPLE RULES DURING THE PROCEDURE AND YOUR SIGMOIDOSCOPY WILL BE A MORE ENJOYABLE, POLITE EXPERIENCE.

DISENGAGE

END OF PROGRAM

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Post 660 - Shameless Self Promotion - "You Didn't Hear It From Me!" and other Performance Perpetrations

Including the "Classics"

You Didn't Hear It From Me, Laura Palmetto McGregory Toon, Thespian, Dual:Duel, The Battle Creek Idea, Graduation Speech, The Place: The Thing, Open Mike, Death of Diddy, and, as a bonus - another "Bedtime Story for Neurotic Children."  The mind reels.

In Paperback (124 pages, suitable for bedside or bathroom) and Kindle (suitable for eyestrain and who know what else) at Amazon, where novels vanish like spit on a hot griddle.   Not enough pictures, but that'll be the "second edition" ... now to find the masters for the 1907 Battle Creek tour guide...

I think this link will take you there, you poor, poor soul - You Didn't Hear It From Me - at Amazon

Post 567 - An Excerpt from FDR's September 3, 1934 "Fireside Chat"

It's only a minute from a 15 minute radio address, but it's enough to show that certain things haven't changed much in nearly 90 years...

Post 8 - Pawing through the archives...."1961" broadcast

In 1991, just before doing "impossible things before breakfast" became "doing breakfast as an impossibility,"  I worked with the Grand Rapids Radio Players on a 30 year anniversary celebration of WGVU-FM's first broadcast.  When the program aired a month later (after much shameless self promotion and talking it up among friends and family), I discovered my entire performance wound up on the editing room floor.  Such is life.
Anyway, I did have some old VHS material of some of the rehearsals, and they remained unwatched until very recently - tonight, actually.  Also, I found the S-VHS material for the live performance - one reel was only the soundtrack, the other was never actually watchable - the camera dropped every other frame during recording, resulting in a damaged document.  This was, sadly, the only video record that was made of that evening.
So, I tossed in the rehearsal footage with the crumbling remains of the live performance of that evening in October of 1991, and now place it here to show those who may have wondered that, yes indeed, I did participate in 1961: The Year That Time Forgot.

It still remains a happy memory....