Thread Drift

[Trek420]

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have we passed the getting to know you thread yet?

[Lise]

MP, maybe you'd have fun at http://www.m-w.com You can make it pronounce anything! My favorite is "cloaca."

Nanci

Where do I click to make it talk?

10 to 1 views to posts. At first I thought that was creepy, like people were lurking and spying on us. Then I realized that there are probably 10 of us reading each post!

[SadieKate]

Well, I think my doctor would let me go to Scarffenberger even if I was supposed to still be on bed rest.

Your doctor want to go also? We can even arrange private tours. You suppose petitepois could be talked into this?

http://www.scharffenberger.com/factory.asp

We could probably even find other TE'ers who want to go.

[SadieKate]

10 to 1 views to posts. At first I thought that was creepy, like people were lurking and spying on us. Then I realized that there are probably 10 of us reading each post!

I'm wearing out my mouse trying to maintain the ratio. You sure are talkative.

[snapdragen]

We could probably even find other TE'ers who want to go.

And we would be leaving when??????

[maillotpois]

Your doctor want to go also? We can even arrange private tours. You suppose petitepois could be talked into this?

http://www.scharffenberger.com/factory.asp

She only likes dark chocolate, so yeah!

[SadieKate]

Scharffen Berger Extra Dark = bliss.

Don't pollute my chocolate with anything. OK, maybe a little port on the side.

[KnottedYet]

x-raying a cloaca...

Had a patient once flipping out about transexual surgery and intersex surgeries and such while she was on ice (it was mentioned in some article she was reading or something.)

I asked if she knew who Jamie Lee Curtis was... well, yeah, of course. Well, she's one of "those" people, and genetically male.

Lightbulb went on. Patient will be kinder in the future.

(I looooooooved that Jamie Lee Curtis addressed Congress on the intersex issue. You go, girl!) (it was about babies being "assigned" female because the surgery to make a female is cheaper and easier than to make a male, and insurance, and not letting kids choose for themselves, and such.)

[salsabike]

We lurkers aren't scary, just easily amused. I find this thread SO entertaining!


Lise quote: 10 to 1 views to posts. At first I thought that was creepy, like people were lurking and spying on us. Then I realized that there are probably 10 of us reading each post![/QUOTE]

[kelownagirl]

I've been "lurking" on this thread trying to figure out exactly what it was... I was ready to pipe up on the wine talk but couldn't quite figure out if that really was the topic or not... Thanks for elaborating....

I was anxious to find out how Lise's date went... I guess this thread is kinda like a soap opera...

barb

[Lise]

I don't mean TE lurkers, I mean....outsiders

TE lurkers are just gals who haven't posted here yet! About the date...when I say MWBR, I just mean that we'll probably see each other again, and see where it goes from there! I've had first dates in which the guy seemed absolutely enchanted with me and then...three days later...in the wind. So, what do I know? MWBR.

How did thread drift start, anyway? Eagle babies? Wine? Chocolate? Something now lost in the mist of time, yet easily found by clicking on p1 of the thread?

And...I'm off to work. L.

[Nanci]

There _is_ no topic. Or rather, the topic can be whatever you want, and if anyone has anything to add, they can, but you can't get in trouble for drifting or completely changing the topic! I don't remember what set this off; some other triathlon thread got changed into something completely different from the title, maybe bog snorkeling or something, so I started this thread to just explain how, in a mailing list, that is usually handled, not saying that we should do that here- just saying. And I _know_ I am the drifter with the most offenses.

The patient I x-rayed who had a cloaca was a kid. It was weird, actually, there were a couple of them that week, and I went 20 years before that without having run into it.

I work at a hospital that does a lot of cutting edge surgeries on babies- like congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Diagnosed in utero, the baby has a slim chance of survival without surgery- but we get moms here all the time!!! from as far away as New Mexico, who were told by their OB that the baby was going to die, nothing to be done about it, but the parents don't give up, and look on the Internet, and find us, and come here, and we fix it!!

You know what this thread is kind of like, remember the eagle babies :-( On that forum, there was a thread called Egg Turning Frequency, which if you weren't familiar with the forum, wouldn't think was important, but it was the first place all the eagle-watchers checked in, and got to know each other, and talked about everything. It was _huge_.

That was one of the saddest things, when the dad broke the last egg. I hate to say it, but I think it's going to be one of those moments in history where everyone who saw it live remembers what they were doing at the time, where they were...And they were just two little birds who captured the hearts of millions of people all over the world.

[Brina]

(I looooooooved that Jamie Lee Curtis addressed Congress on the intersex issue. You go, girl!) (it was about babies being "assigned" female because the surgery to make a female is cheaper and easier than to make a male, and insurance, and not letting kids choose for themselves, and such.)

Knotted, do you have more info or a link about this?

[Nanci]

It seems to me that, if you had to pick one or the other, whichever surgery was more likely to be successful/natural/functional would be the best.

It also seems like way too much responsibility for a kid to have to choose!

[DrBee]

Geez y'all were quite talkative last night and early this morning!

Okay Nanci - I'm not getting the whole cloaca thing. How can a kid have a cloaca? I have not heard of this, I don't think I have anyway.

salsabike and kelownagirl - good to see you finally posting on here. This has become the first place we check for some of us. As Lise put it - it's kind of like "home". Hope to see you more!

I slept in this morning! Fridays I drive myself (carpool the other days), because I usually only work 1/2 day. I know I'm getting up early tomorrow to ride a long ride and them my mom and stepdad are coming into town late Sat night. So - sleep sleep this morning. I was going to get up early and run. FishJr came in our room in the middle of the night talking about a scary dream she had about orange bumble bees with long pointy stingers. At least she willingly went back to bed after telling us about the dream. Surely that could've waited until the morning