I was a newbie when Steve Heckman was posting to alt.stupidity. These are the only two messages that I have on file. Does anyone have a copy of (l)Laura's discovery (and/or its followups)? ============================================================================ PAIN ============================================================================ From: heckman@oomph.BBN.Com (Steve Heckman) Newsgroups: alt.stupidity Subject: Re: medical condition Date: 07 Oct 1994 17:30:22 GMT Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies, Cambridge, MA Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <1994Oct6.200828.22162@adobe.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: oomph.bbn.com In-reply-to: thompson@adobe.com's message of Thu, 6 Oct 1994 20:08:28 GMT thompson@adobe.com (Ed Thompson) writes : My doctor told me I have a Sternum. Apparently, I have had it my whole life. It's a chronic condition, though benign. He seemed to suggest that there wasn't really anything I needed to do about it but I was considering having it removed, for cosmetic reasons. But now I'm confused. I didn't really know what it was, so I looked "sternum" up in the dictionary, and it said it was a Native American word meaning strict or severe. How can I have one of those? Reminds me of a mail message a friend wrote to me about a co-worker. The names have been changed to protect ME: So last wednestday, I had dinner around 7:00, alfredo egg noodles and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a couple glasses of milk. Before I even got the last egg noodle down, my stomach was killing me. I figured it was nerves because of the impending doom about to take my life. I meet Bob, Ed, Dolly and Doug at the golf course around 8:00 for some night golf, my stomach is killing me the whole time. As soon as I'm done, I go home to rest. Around midnight, I had some real severe pains, but I figured it was either gas, nerves or an ulcer at this point, and I would try and rest it off. 2:30am, still hurting like a muther and getting worse. So I go to the emergency room at The Hospital (something I hate doing) and they lie me down immediately, just about as quickly, the pain goes away. The dr. comes over around 3:30 and starts pushing on my stomach and we can't get the pain to come back, I figured he was just gonna send me home with a case of indigestion, you know, take two tumms and call me in the morning. But no, he orders an x-ray, so that takes another half hour or so. At 4:10am he calls me over to the x-rays and shows them to me (with a drunk in ER stall 3 behind me critiquing the dr.). He points at a ton of white puffy stuff all over my innards and asks me if I know what that is, I got scared and was thinking that it was internal bleeding, or scarred up tissue from leaky gastric fluids, and he very dryly answers "it's shit". "Huh" I question? He says "you're full of shit, you've got FOS syndrome". Turns out my digestive system decided to shut down about three days ago... You'd a thought that a guy like me would've noticed that I hadn't had the first of my three s's in such a long time. Well, he ordered some over the counter magnesium citrate and now I'm exploding like there's no tomorrow. So alls well that ends well. I still can't believe it, I go to the emergency room to have a doctor tell me I'm full of shit. -vehement sack of shit =========================================================================== RIOTS IN 1995 =========================================================================== From: spatula@twain.ucs.umass.edu (Spatch) Newsgroups: alt.stupidity Subject: Re: Riots in 1995? Date: 12 Oct 1994 20:21:40 -0400 Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Lines: 41 NNTP-Posting-Host: twain.ucs.umass.edu In article , Steve Heckman wrote: Steve Dallas wrote: > ============================================================================ > decastro@netcom.com Warning: I am a trained professional. No, Really! > Rick N6RCX EMT-A ATP MA Do Not try this yourself - it could get ugly...... > Richard A. De Castro - As long as the Government pretends to protect me, > I'll pretend to feel safe - NOT! > -Don't Tread On Me!- > ============================================================================ > >...ohhhh boooyyy!!! This group has got to be off the STUPID-O-METER... > . > . > . > Oh boy. There goes the STUPID-O-METER. You broke it, you vehemently bought it, pal. > >-vehement sack of grenades > >(I was thinking about x-posting this in their group, but I don't know if >we REALLY want to fuck with them...OK, call me chicken...) No, no, by all means let's keep this in alt.stupidity. You saw how the Red Dwarf fans (and I thought I was one!!) reacted... although I wouldn't mind seeing misc.survivalism vs. alt.bigfoot ... that would be cool. - spatch, who was reprimanded today and he doesn't know why - -- _ spatula@twain.ucs.umass.edu - FBB Forklift Driver |X| "Paul Harvey. Paul Harvey, Space Ghost. Page two: Because that man... was Walt Disney. And that's the rest... of the story."