On or about 11-05-09 22:16, Ardith Hinton allegedly uttered "Physio...
 1B." to
James Bradley:

 JB>  Lately, I caught a glimpse of a B+W skit that *was*
 JB>  uproarious; where those many years ago, I couldn't
 JB>  understand what all the hype was about. (How's the
 JB>  punctuation? }B-)

 AH>             I knew you'd get the idea, once you'd thought about it.

... Once I read about it! 

 JB>  It usually improves the audio::video synchronization.
 JB>  (How's the "::=proportional to" liberty? }B-)

 AH>             A single colon is often used to indicate a
 AH> mathematical ratio... so I think it makes sense in this
 AH> context.  But why the double colon?  :-)

1/2::2/4
S::N ratio

A single colon doesn't say the same, does it? (Shoot, I can see this drifting
toward English_Tutor, too! B-)


 JB>  ... And so contrary to what you know about the boots
 JB>  I'm likely to die in? 

 AH>             Not really.  I wasn't aware of your bursitis,
 AH> but when a person has inhabited the same body for four
 AH> decades or more the list of things which don't work quite
 AH> the way they're supposed to may be extensive.  I can't see
 AH> either of us becoming a couch potato within the foreseeable
 AH> future, that's all... [grin].

A sucking chest wound is natures way of telling you to slow down. Maybe it
*does* FAD. 


 JB>  Funny, it *was* an RN that was trying to teach a group
 JB>  of seniors when the nay-sayer said what many - I suspect
 JB>  -were thinking.


 AH>             Seniors... hmm.  During the 1950's grownups often made
 AH> remarks like "Don't be silly, there's no such thing as [what I
 AH> haven't seen with my own eyes & probably never will because
 AH> I don't hold with this nonsense]!"  Very SJ.  Not all
 AH> seniors are SJ's, of course, and not all SJ's are seniors.
 AH> But this person might encourage others to remain stuck in
 AH> the 1950's if nobody objects....  :-)

And if you *weren't* a heavy drinker, there was no way you were sociable.


 JB>  I guess I took the opportunity to speak up and broadcast
 JB>  the seed I had in hand in the hopes there was fertile
 JB>  ground in better climes. It was an opportunity when I
 JB>  knew there was hostile attitudes,


 AH>             Why... you young whippersnapper!  How *dare*
 AH> you arrive at your own conclusions, even though you may be
 AH> older than they were when they thought they had everything
 AH> all figured out?  I like it.  Stay as sweet as you are....  :-))

Shucks, I have no choice in that matter.  Well, I guess I could learn to
shut up a bit more, at the risk of having a heart attack. Na, if I can't spout,
don't hang about.


 JB>  self-improvement was bottled by a guy named Smirnoff.

 AH>             As they say in recovery circles... anesthetized time
 AH> doesn't count. Quite a few of the parents of my childhood friends
 AH> seemed to be heavy drinkers. People of their generation
 AH> were emotionally repressed by today's standards, but it is
 AH> now known that unacknowledged feelings can show up in
 AH> physical ways.  :-)

The instructors to the course I spoke up at, were closer to the average age
than mine. (IOW, I alone anchored the bottom percentile.) I was *very*
conscious about using my ears more than my mouth. Funny, around that time I
heard, "You have two ears and only one mouth. Try to use them in that
proportion."



... James
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