If they can put a man on the moon...

JSchmidt said:
Hey Nursie, just noticed you're in Peoria... we're just a donor-cycle... er... I mean motorcycle... ride away, in Macomb! Howdy!
Jim
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Small world...my eldest is in Macomb as we speak at WIU. She graduates this spring, thank goodness. We'll be over in a couple of weeks for graduation. My dad and uncle have farmland just east of town.

My uncle was walking his fields once along the highway. Saw a guy on a bike roll the thing...he goes running, figures the biker's toast. The guy gets up & walks away. He had leathers and a helmet on.

FLK..I understand what you say, and I see the point for being able to take it off, and can tell that you know when they should be worn.
I worked in neuro ICU when I was younger....saw too many that should have had them on. And too many doing stupid stuff while on them, or behind the wheel of a car. The chief neurosurgeon used to write long articles for the paper in favor of the helmet laws, to no avail. I would think if these people could see how devistated their family and loved ones are when something happens they would at least be careful for their sakes. Head injuries are huge life altering if not life ending events.
 
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make bug spray that really works...
and STOP sending people to the moon so we can all oooh and aaahh and instead, pay for better education, health care, homeless, starving people around the world, etc etc.
I know, I know, What a silly idea :rolleyes:
 
TKOS said:
More metric system!! Come on folks and just standardize the math system. Base ten rules!!!
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It's not like it's hard or anything. The medical community already uses it and has for years. It's divisible by tens for pete's sake. I for one was dissapointed we didn't! When I was in grade school we were taught it because the US was going to switch, and then wussed out.
 
Plus you need the metric system to send a man or woman to the moon.

And heck it will seem like everyone will be driving faster on the highway, I mean we do 110 up here (which is basically the same as you guys but looks faster on the sign!!).
 
Hiccups are caused by a lack of Co2 in your system (or so I've been told), the best way I have found to get rid of them is breathe all the air out out of your lungs and then have someone else (someone close to you hopefully) expell all the air in their lungs into you (like blowing up a balloon). Works for me every time.
 
Before you catch something trying to cure hiccups, they are caused by a nerv tic of muscle spasm of the diaphragm. You can do whatever works for you to stop them. FLK's cure is closer to what I've heard, which is to swallow something like sugar to try and counterstimulate the nerve that is causing it...and that was a pretty far fetched one. the esophagus does go throught he diaphragm, that must be the theory as to how that one is supposed to work.
Had a guy in the hospital that had them bad and couldn't stop, due to some kind of nerve involvement. They were sedating him with tranqulizers to try and stop them.
 
why can't ..... put one on Ellen Degeneres...


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