Category Archives: Health

Let’s Go Spelunking! Adventures on the Digestive Health Ward

I had a colonoscopy this week, but it got me out of meetings. What do you wear to such a procedure, I wondered when the alarm went off Wednesday morning – brown shoes? It was the first time I’d agreed … Continue reading

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10 Signs a Tomato May Be Trying to Kill You

10. Goes out, buys a gun and shoots you with it 9. Calls Mexican drug lord and says in your voice, “I have your grandmother’s wedding album.” 8. Hides your statins under neighbor’s Rhodesian Ridgeback 7. Repacks your sport parachute … Continue reading

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Deer get chronic wasting disease, Moose get Hepatitis

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FDA declares DNA test DOA

“WASHINGTON (AP) — The largest U.S. drugstore chain, Walgreen Co., said Wednesday it will hold off selling what was poised to be the first over-the-counter genetic test, after the Food and Drug Administration said the kit has not been proven … Continue reading

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Post-traumatic Stress Syndrome Easily Cured with New Socks

Get yourself some hosiery and buck up, boys.

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Top 10 Messages to Record Before Giving Someone the Talking Toilet Roll

10. “Hey lady – we’re working down here!” 9. “Sorry I couldn’t afford the iPhone you wanted” 8. “That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown” 7. “Hey, it’s Tiger. Need you to do me a huge favor. Can you … Continue reading

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Puss n’ Toots: How You Can Save 9 Lives

The plan this week was to craft The Autobiography of Anonymous: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Someone You Don’t. But, like the best-laid plans and golfers, it crashed, when a more acute issue escalated Cadillac-style into the poplar … Continue reading

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Another Spelling Tragedy

Unable to Choose Between the Spellings “Aneurysm” and “Aneurism,” Area Man Suffers Excessive Localized Enlargement of Artery and Weakening of Artery Wall

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Jacket by Armani. Face by Ferragamo.

Like it or not, fashion designers color your world. They inform your purchases of clothing, sunglasses, house paint, furniture, jewelry … even automobiles. Remember the Pierre Cardin Cadillac? You may not buy the label, but whoever made what you do … Continue reading

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A1 anyone?

To attract media attention and spike international readership, this week’s post comes to you from inside a giant silver Jiffy Pop balloon drifting over the Alps. In here with me may or may not be a kidnapped Louisiana Justice of … Continue reading

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