Sunday, September 30, 2007
"Seize the nettle firmly".
I always thought that meant either that one had to be decisive when to cure was to hurt, or that when pain was inevitable and going to be a bitch, that you had to, again, be decisive. I was wrong, mostly. Since probably before Roman times in Britain, the tough vascular fibers in nettle stalks were...
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Monday, September 24, 2007
Another Maj-ism
(Playing a game he is not good at, late at night, with otherwise very nice people having too much fun at his expense): "Must be Daylight Savings Time, it's getting ugly earlier tonight!".
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Thursday, September 13, 2007
Maybe not a canard, but one of my favorite movie quotes
"John Bernard Brooks": "I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them". Name that movie?
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
"Pull up the ladder, I got mine!".
Sort of the reverse of the Golden Rule, think you not?
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Monday, September 10, 2007
Cynthia asks me about the term "Snakebit op"
My reply, which is posted in her blog and which should be read by everyone (not just my comment): And I quote/paste: " 1. One or more of the planners is promoted/demoted/transfered/dies/declared legally insane (last one's the best) just before it starts. 2. Everyone has the show-up time wrong. 3....
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Sunday, September 2, 2007
Nursing's Version: If it isn't charted, it didn't happen".
The intended purpose of this one heard over and over in nursing school is to make sure that the medical record, ideally designed to maximize communitcation between caregivers, is complete and correct. However, more and more and more this becomes a tool designed to make work easier for bean counters...
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Monday, August 27, 2007
"You can't teach an old dog new tricks"
Not true, it's just that we old dogs like our old tricks so much you can't get us to take time off from them to follow the new agenda! Most of your "wonder dogs" on TV and movies, other than Lassie and Rin Tin Tin, were/are pound foundlings. Ditto many cat performers. Temple Grandin, you listening?...
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Sunday, August 26, 2007
"Don't pass up a good hydrant"
Firefighting 101 axiom. You're on the last block to the fire, you can see the smoke, there's people and cars in the street so you really don't want to lay a long 2 1/2 inch ("deuce and a half") supply line any great distance since it will supply less water than a close-up 4 1/2 inch hose to a...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
One from the apocryphal "Murphy's Laws of Combat"{
" If your attack is going much better than you expected, it's an ambush". Except, who is ambushing whom? Oh, okay...a twofer, from the MLOC: "There is no such thing as friendly fire".
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
A "two-fer" * !
As Samuel Clemens once wrote about biographies (and I frequently requote but about blogging), just because it happened to YOU doesn't make it interesting! A derivative I heard on the radio.."There's a novel in everybody; very often, that's exactly where it belongs". *"Two-fer"..."Redneckiana" bar...
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