Caduceus Newsletter: Valentine’s Day 2006 Special Edition.

 

 

è 1.  OOOOOOH, that must have hurt,…but only for a moment.
è 2. Who's Your Daddy?...or, men are all alike – they’re just like a can of beans.

è3.  How Yodeling began.
è4.  You know, if you’re a male, it’s embarrassing to discover that most of the Darwin Award recipients and honorable mentions are men
è5.  If you’ve never had a prostate gland examination…
è6.  Somehow, I think women have known this all along
è7.  CHILDBIRTH - THROUGH A CHILD'S EYES 
è8.  His behavior would be understandable if his team had lost
è9.  Ron B., who sent me this, is from Texas, so he ought to know!...
è10.  This, too, is SPORT!  (Estonians won first AND second place in the 2005 wife-carrying contest.)

 

è 1.  OOOOOOH, that must have hurt,…but only for a moment.

 From CNN.com, February 10, 2005:

 LONDON (Reuters) - A British woman was sentenced to two and a half years in jail Thursday for ripping off her ex-lover's testicle with her bare hands during a drunken brawl after he refused her sex.

 

 

Amanda Monti, 24, flew into a rage in May last year after Geoffrey Jones, 37, who had ended their long-term relationship, rejected her advances.

She grabbed him by the genitals, tearing off his left testicle, then hid it in her mouth before a friend of Jones handed it back to him saying "that's yours."

Monti, of Birkenhead, near Liverpool, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding at an earlier hearing.

(Once again, alcohol was involved.)

 

è 2.  Who's Your Daddy?

 When someone puts in for Child Support, the proper thing to do is to find out who the father is and see why he is not providing support.

 

The following are all replies that Dallas women have written on Child Support Agency forms in the section for listing father's details. Or putting it another way... Who's yo Daddy! These are genuine excerpts from the forms.

 

1. Regarding the identity of the father of my twins, child A was fathered by Jim Munson. I am unsure as to the identity of the father of child B, but I believe that he was conceived on the same night.

 

2. I am unsure as to the identity of the father of my child as I was being sick out of a window when taken unexpectedly from behind. I can provide you with a list of names of men that I think were at the party if this helps.

 

3. I do not know the name of the father of my little girl. She was conceived at a party at 3600 Grand Avenue where I had unprotected sex with a man I met that night. I do remember that the sex was so good that I fainted. If you do manage to track down the father, can you send me his phone number?

Thanks.

 

4. I don't know the identity of the father of my daughter. He drives a BMW that now has a hole made by my stiletto in one of the door panels.  Perhaps you can contact BMW service stations in this area and see if he's had it replaced.

 

5. I have never had sex with a man. I am still a Virginian. I am awaiting a letter from the Pope confirming that my son's conception was immaculate and that he is Christ risen again.

 

6. I cannot tell you the name of child A's dad as he informs me that to do so would blow his cover and that would have cataclysmic implications for the economy. I am torn between doing right by you and right by the country. 

Please advise.

 

7. I do not know who the father of my child was as all blacks look the same to me.

 

8. Peter Smith is the father of child A. If you do catch up with him, can you ask him what he did with my AC/DC CDs? Child B who was also borned at the same time.... well I don't have a clue.

 

9. From the dates it seems that my daughter was conceived at Disney World; maybe it really is the Magic Kingdom.

 

10. So much about that night is a blur. The only thing that I remember for sure is Delia Smith did a program about eggs earlier in the evening. If I'd have stayed in and watched more TV rather than going to the party at 146 Miller Drive, mine might have remained unfertilized.

 

11. I am unsure as to the identity of the father of my baby, after all when you eat a can of beans you can't be sure which one made you fart.

 

è3.  How Yodeling began.

Many years ago a man was traveling through the mountains of Switzerland.

 

Nightfall was rapidly approaching and he had nowhere to sleep. He went up to a farmhouse and asked the farmer if he could spend the night.

 

The farmer told him that he could sleep in the barn.

 

As the story goes, the farmer's daughter came down from upstairs and asked her father, "Who's that man going into the barn?"

 

"That's some fellow traveling through," said the farmer.  "He needs a place to stay for the night, so I said he could sleep in the barn."

 

The daughter said,"Perhaps he's hungry." So she prepared him a plate of food and took it out to the barn.

 

About an hour later, the daughter returned, her clothing disheveled and straw in her hair. Straight up to bed she went.

 

The farmer's wife was very observant. She then suggested that perhaps the man was thirsty. So she fetched a bottle of wine, took it out to the barn, and she too did not return for an hour.

 

Her clothing was askew, her blouse buttoned incorrectly and her hair all messed up. She also headed straight to bed.

 

The next morning at sunrise the man in the barn got up and continued on his journey, waving to the farmer as he left.

 

When the daughter awoke and learned that the visitor was gone, she broke into tears. "How could he leave without even saying goodbye,"she cried. "We made such passionate love last night!"

 

"What?" shouted the father as he angrily ran out of the house looking for the man who, by now, was halfway up the mountain.

 

The farmer screamed up at him, "I'm going to get you!  You had sex with my daughter!"

 

The man looked back down from the mountainside, cupped his hand next to his mouth, and yelled out:

 

"LAIDTHEOLELADEETOO."

 

 

è4.  You know, if you’re a male, it’s embarrassing to discover that most of the Darwin Award recipients and honorable mentions are men…

 2005 DARWIN AWARDS Yes, it's that magical time of the year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.

 

Here then, are the glorious winners.

 

1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a holdup in Long Beach, California, would be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.....

 

And now, the honorable mentions:



2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine and, after a little hopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company.  The company expecting negligence, sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.



3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago

returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.


4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.



5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he  was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.



6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a  $20bill on the counter, and asked for change.  When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer...$15. (If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?)



7. Seems an  Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run.  So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.



8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher.  They put him in the car and drove back to the store.  The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand  there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes, officer, that's her.That's the lady I stole the purse from."



9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 a.m., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk  turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.



A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER!



10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much  more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very  sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake.The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges, saying that it  was the best laugh he'd ever had.

 

è5.  If you’ve never had a prostate gland examination…

This sums up what they feel like:

 

è6.  Somehow, I think women have known this all along…

Size Does Matter in Bats' Evolution

from Associated Press

 

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- For some male bats, sexual prowess comes with a price --

smaller brains. A research team led by Syracuse University biologist Scott

Pitnick found that in bat species where the females are promiscuous, the

males boasting the largest testicles also had the smallest brains.

Conversely, where the females were faithful, the males had smaller testes

and larger brains.

 

"It turns out size does matter," said Pitnick, whose findings were published

in December in "Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Science," an

online journal.

 

The study offers evidence that males -- at least in some species -- make an

evolutionary trade-off between intelligence and sexual prowess, said David

Hoskens, a biologist at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the

University of Exeter in England and a leading authority on bats' mating

behavior.

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(Ed. Note:  This may explain Kathleen Turner’s statement that she prefers men who are “not too bright.”)

 

 

è7.  CHILDBIRTH - THROUGH A CHILD'S EYES

Due to a power outage at the time, only one paramedic responded to the call.  The house was very,very dark,so the paramedic asked Katelyn, a 3-year-old girl, to hold a flashlight high over her mummy so he could see while he helped deliver the baby.

Very diligently, Katelyn did as she was asked.  Heidi pushed and pushed, and after a little while, Connor was born. 

The paramedic  lifted him by his little feet and spanked him on his  bottom.Connor began to cry. The paramedic then thanked  Katelyn for her help and asked the wide-eyed 3 year old what she
 thought about what she had just witnessed. Katelyn quickly responded,

"He shouldn't have crawled in there in the first place.
 Smack him again."

 

è8.  His behavior would be understandable if his team had lost

Posted at Yahoo.com, February 7, 2005:

LONDON (Reuters) - A Welsh rugby fan cut off his own testicles to celebrate Wales beating England at rugby, the Daily Mirror has reported.

Geoff Huish, 26, was so convinced England would win Saturday's match he told fellow drinkers at a social club, "If Wales win I'll cut my balls off", the paper said on Tuesday.

Friends at the club in Caerphilly, south Wales, thought he was joking.

But after the game Huish went home, severed his testicles with a knife, and walked 200 metres back to the bar with the testicles to show the shocked drinkers what he had done.

Huish was taken to hospital where he remained in a seriously ill condition, the paper said. Police told the paper he had a history of mental problems.

Wales's 11-9 victory over England at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff was their first home win in 12 years.

 

è9.   Ron B., who sent me this, is from Texas, so he ought to know!...

A  store that sells husbands has just opened in Dallas, TX, where woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store  operates.

"You may visit the store ONLY ONCE! There are six  floors and the attributes of the men increase as the shopper  ascends the flights. There is, however, a catch. You may choose any  man from a particular floor, or you may choose to go up a floor,  but you cannot go back down except to exit the  building!"

So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a  husband . .

On the first floor the sign on the door reads:

            Floor 1 - These men have jobs.

The second floor sign reads:
            Floor 2 - These men have jobs and love kids.

The third floor sign reads:
            Floor 3 - These men have jobs, love kids, and are extremel y good looking.
            "Wow," she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.

She goes to the fourth floor and sign reads:
            Floor 4 - These men have jobs, love kids, are drop-dead good looking and help with the housework.

            "Oh, mercy me!" she exclaims, "I can hardly stand it!"

Still, she goes to the fifth floor and sign reads:
            Floor 5 - These men have jobs, love kids, are drop-dead gorgeous, help with the housework, and have a strong romantic streak.
            She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the sixth floor and the sign reads:


Floor 6 - You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping

 

è10.  This, too, is SPORT!  (Estonians won first AND second place in the 2005 wife-carrying contest.)

An Estonian man has fought off a challenge from a sumo wrestler to be named the world's best wife carrier.

A record 7,000 spectators gathered for the fifth Wife Carrying World Championships, in a village in Finland.

Margo Uusorg took the title after carrying Birgit Ulrich across the course in the best time.

Experts put his success down to technique - carrying her upside down, leaving both hands free - and her light weight of only 33.2 kilos.

South Korean sumo wrestler Hwang Sunmi mounted a serious challenge, employing a different hands-free technique to carry Kwang Duk through the 250m watery course.

But his strength was no match for the combination of technique and speed employed by the Estonians, whose teams came first and second in the contest.

Competitors from eight countries took part in the event, at Sonkajarvi in central Finland.

Competition rules state that the couples taking part in the wife-carrying contest do not actually need to be married.

Originated

Men can choose any woman over the age of 16 to be their symbolic wife for the event.

The winners claim prizes including the wife's weight in beer.

The festival originated in the 19th century when it was common practice in Finland to steal women from neighbouring villages.

 

 

Dr. Stan Eisen, Director
Preprofessional Health Programs
Biology Department
Christian Brothers University

650 East Parkway South
Memphis, TN 38104

E-mail: seisen@cbu.edu
http://www.cbu.edu/~seisen/
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