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The new, guaranteed, stop-smoking-instantly kit. Consisting of a hammer and ice pick.
Posted by Rand Simberg at January 29, 2007 11:04 AM
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There's always a .22,but still a little drastic I think.
Posted by Frantic Freddie at January 29, 2007 01:02 PM
My dad used to have a bumber sticker, a bit unkind I thought, that said Cancer cures smoking.
Posted by Carl Pham at January 29, 2007 01:47 PM
Cancer cures smoking.
Sure, but that's old news. This breakthrough provides a much more rapid cure. After all, a lot of people with cancer keep smoking for years, right up to the end.
Posted by Rand Simberg at January 29, 2007 01:51 PM
It worked for Trotsky.
Posted by lmg at January 29, 2007 03:29 PM
Hey Rand, stop stealing my ideas . I gave that icepick advice to a pal after hearing about the story last Friday...
Posted by Charles Lurio at January 29, 2007 10:33 PM
Sure, but that's old news.
Well, it was on a '68 VW bug. I think gas was about 55 cents a gallon, too.
Posted by Carl Pham at January 29, 2007 11:58 PM
Maybe Leon Trotsky's fate was really a botched attempt at nicotine withdrawal.
Posted by Alan K. Henderson at January 30, 2007 03:28 AM
Ah, someone beat me to the joke.
Posted by Alan K. Henderson at January 30, 2007 03:29 AM
I remember seeing a story on a medical show about a guy who was a real rat. Always drinking, fighting, stealing, lots of jail time.
He was a construction worker when he was sober and not in jail. One day somebody dropped a crow bar that went through his head. They took him to the hospital, but it didn't even knock him out. The doctors pulled the crow bar out, noted that it didn't even bleed that much, bandaged it and sent him home to die.
The guy recovered, and became a great guy. I guess this must have hit "whatever" part of the brain made him a jerk. Some people get 3 ghosts on Christmas Eve, this guy got a crow bar through his melon. Ouch!!
Posted by Steve at January 30, 2007 05:21 AM
Steve, you are probably thinking of the famous Phineas Gage, founding icon of psychoneurology.
Posted by Carl Pham at January 30, 2007 12:08 PM
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