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Is Bull Durham the movie where they have the meeting on the mound and talk about non-baseball stuff?

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I'm generally in this camp - unless it is superficially obvious that I need medical attention, I don't need medical attention. OB/GYN every 6 months (doc won't renew a scrip for a full year, go figure), and other than that, I'll only go if (i) I've suffered chronic pain for at least one week that is sufficiently bad that I can't work, eat, sleep or watch TV, (ii) I've suffered lesser chronic pain for at least a month, or (iii) something catastrophic happens and I'm in excruciating pain and/or clearly physically incapacitated (in which case I get myself carried to the ER).

Actually, the last time I went to the doc, I did something weird and horrible to my neck. (Like, I reached forward to pick up a pencil off the desk and something horrible happened to my neck.) I couldn't move. At all. Couldn't lie down, stand, sit, walk, nothing, without shrieking pain through my whole left side. The stupidity of my condition pissed me off so much (this from picking up a pencil???) that it took the Mr. 4 1/2 hours to convince me to go to the dr. (Where my resistance was justified by my having an "adverse reaction" to the synthetic opiate she shot me up with.) Anyhow, they acknowledged that they could do nothing for me, and I should just "work the kinks out," with the aid of some really, really fun drugs. Come to think of it, I should go to the Dr. more often - they pass out the recreational drugs like candy these days. Hydrocodone and a gut full of muscle relaxants - now THAT is the way to take a 3 hour conference call.

On the Dr. thing, though, I think that all the hypochondriacs who go to the Dr. to get antibiotics for colds, influenza and sprains should be removed from society and confined in the old TB wards, where their self-created flesh-eating antibiotic-resistant-germs can't infect and murder the rest of us.

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Both Gregory Peck and David Brinkley have died.

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I'm going to watch To Kill A Mockingbird on DVD tonight.

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I dunno -- I kinda like Bill Clement's "why, I oughta...." line in such situations.

In general, I have to say that ESPN's hockey announcers are quite good. Gary Thorne calls the game very well, and Clement's comments are usually insightful. Steve Levy and Darren Pang are also good. However, I love Chris Berman, and it hurts me to say this, but ABC shouldn't have let him anywhere near the Cup games. Talking with a fake Canadian accent is only funny when I do it, and he didn't add anything. He just made me wonder where John Buccigross was.

Local hockey announcers are a bit more iffy -- the guys who do the roller hockey games on TV here in Podunkville aren't horrible, and the color guy's use of the telestrator to explain the replays is really quite good -- almost good enough to make up for his malapropisms and his near constant leering at the chick who does player interviews during the between-period intermissions.

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He could have at least bought TM dinner first. You kids and your loose morals.

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Yes. I just saw it recently on broadcast TV. One of the players is griping about his jinxed glove, one is distracted because he can't figure out to get as a wedding present for the marriage of the slut groupie to the team religious wingnut, etc. Manager comes out and gives thoughtful answers to their dilemmas ("candlesticks are always nice"), then breaks it up to get back to the game.

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It gives an entirely new meaning to the phrase "skull fucking," doesn't it?

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This is obviously a Seattle-Portland thang. You just don't like ex-Blazers.

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That's it! That's why I hate those guys so much. Well...that and the fact that THEY SUCK AT WHAT THEY DO.

Mychal Thompson's commentary consisted of "well when I was playing, I would..." "You know when I used to take that shot..."

Bill Walton does the same thing. "If I was so-and-so, I would...." Even though Walton spent the bulk of his career on the bench rehabilitating his multiple injuries.

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Neck pain is the WORST!! (And I've given birth to more than one 9-pound baby...) You're totally immobilized -- and it comes on so suddenly and unexpectedly. I usually get it when I've slept in a strange position (or at least that's the only thing I have found to explain it.)

I did end up going to the doctor for that (I was literally in tears in my bed on the phone to my Dr. -- in contrast to the time that I had a compound fracture and nearly passed out from the pain -- where not a tear was shed), or more accurately, she prescribed physical therapy and I somehow made it over to the PT's office (that taxi ride was excruciating). Physical therapy (which, prior to this experience, I basically considered as equivalent to voo-doo, witch doctors, faith-healers and the like) was a MIRACLE.

Ever since, when I find myself with excruciating neck pain, I do the recommended exercises, and it really helps. It's unbelievable. I'm a true convert.

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OK, that was totally unnecessary. [If there were a vomit smiley, I'd include it here.]


(But I admit it -- I laughed.) ;)

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Huh?

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Not true. Some people do exactly what doctors advise, and just get killed by it. So please be cautious about victim-blaming.

Sorry about your mom, and mine.

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Yeah. That's what I said also. And I don't even know you.

Then I thought about responding with a "you're a racist" comment and "so racist that you think all asian cultures are the same or don't care enough to know that chow mein, teriyaki and pad thai don't all belong in the same restaurant," but I figured it was just a waste of time on someone who will never know the difference.:eyeroll:

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And embarrassing! Do you know how much crap I got when I had to ask my partner to conference me into some bigwig meeting from home because I was literally unable to move to get out of bed?

Lying there immobile having to stare up at the ceiling wearing holey boxer shorts talking contracts with a client and partner you know are wearing $3000 suits and fresh from their manly manicures is truly a squicky feeling.:rolleyes: