![]() ![]() Of course we didn't have surgical equipment or sanitizer in those days thanks to the great medicine embargo of 1942, in fact if you had to cut someone open you had to use lobster claws! Lobstotomys I think they were called. That was the only pencil we had in the entire town and I never finished my thesis.Īnd ya see the thing about a doctoral thesis is that one is required to get your doctorate degree, but back in my day you were elected the town's top doctor if you could estimate someone's heartbeat to within 400 beats per fortnight. Think he was one of those German bears trained by the kaiser. Unfortunately before he ran off he snagged the pencil and yelled out "yoink". I was able to fight him off with nothing but my hands and the pencil I was writing with. ![]() I was working on my doctoral thesis when the biggest bear you've ever seen came charging out of the woods at me. Back then folks would work up to 17 jobs just to get home and be whooped by their mama for not working hard enough. I was working at the shoe shine store to put myself through medical school. The first time I heard the word yoink as I recall was back in nineteen aught six.
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