From a retired internist:
“I just want to make sure I’m not going to shit, you know. I mean, my wife is fucked-up with all kinds of shit, and some of my friends are pretty fucked-up, too, and I'm sure all my old patients are either fucked-up or dead by now, and I’ll be a son of bitch if I’m going to get fucked up more than is normal for being fucked-up at my age so I just want you to check out all my neuro shit and that kind of stuff and make sure I’m not too fucked-up for 87."
I always thought the technical term for shit talk was “stercolalia” until a classicist who had retrained in medicine told me that was a neologism mixing Latin (Stercor = shit) and Greek (Lalia = speech) roots.
ReplyDeleteWell... aside from your frontal lobes clearly not working, let's see shall we...
ReplyDeleteYou know, I can't actually find anything wrong with his logic.
ReplyDeleteHe's retired, there's no need to use fancy multisyllabic words with Greek or Latin roots and a ton of prefixes and suffixes anymore when common 4-letter words will do the trick. I respect and applaud his commitment to retirement.
ReplyDeletePretty self-aware, if you ask me.
ReplyDeleteThat is some fucked-up shit.
ReplyDeleteObviously a Warren Zevon fan
ReplyDeleteHey, when I'm 87, I want to be just the normal amount of fucked up, not excessively so. But even if I am excessively fucked up at 87, will I really know?
ReplyDeleteYer average. Now STFU.
ReplyDelete"Check out my book, 'Is Your Shit Fucked Up Today?'"
ReplyDeleteThat guy's gonna live forever.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I literally forgot about this blog until something reminded me of it this week. Probably reading "Cobalt Red" and they talk about artisanal mining..... And THIS is the first post when I dig and dig through the internet to find this blog again? After all these years? LOLLLLL
ReplyDeleteOkay, now I remember what I was going to say. It was the fall semester at UAA/ACC 1976 and I was finally going to take a first semester class that I knew something about in a subject I liked, biology. It was the class reqired for all in any science-related field: medical school, nursing students, biology teachers, bioengineering, dentistry, etc. I still remember like it was yesterday. Our first 'lab' was to go out in groups of 4-5, demarcate a 5'x5' plot and count all the plants and all the different types of specimens. At the time, campus was in a boggy mosquito area, but it was fall and cool and mosquito count quite low, so we had a pleasant time of it, (MJ was legal in AK for personal use) and I thought we were doing something quite unique for freshman college students. And, as we returned the next time to lecture, someone had cut out a little blurb from a physical assessment textbook with regard to clinical judgment upon finding tattoos on a patient's skin. And, it wasn't but four years later, we were on break in the staff lounge that one of the RNs confided that she'd gotten a tiny butterfly tattoo like it was a scandal or something. So. Yeah. Some of us are on the verge of retiring.
ReplyDeletehmm...getting by with a vocabulary of approx. 20 words.
ReplyDeleteGood to go, see you again in 10 years
ReplyDeleteYou really need to know what he sounded like 2,5 and 10 yrs ago to see if it is a progression
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