Come to think of it, I always have wondered what lyrics Joe Cocker was singing during his famous rendition of "With a Little Help from My Friends" at Woodstock in 1969 (H/T Craig Newmark).
Joe Cocker, captioned for the clear-headed
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Category Archives: Humor
Say what, Doc?
Inasmuch as my family and social groups include a large number of medical doctors, I’ve noticed that the slang that the docs use when they are talking shop can be incomprehensible at times. That’s why this comprehensive list of Doctor’s Slang, Medical Slang and Medical Acronyms will come in handy. A few good ones:
"Blade" — Surgeon: dashing, bold, arrogant and often wrong, but never in doubt (very much appreciated by the primary care doctors);
"Captain Kangaroo" — chairman of the pediatrics department;
"DTMA" — Stands for "Don’t Transfer to Me Again";
"Fonzie" — Unflappable medic;
"Improving His Claim" — Victim of minor accident, needs no treatment but wants something to support his insurance/legal claim;
"Masochist" — Trauma surgeon;
"Sadomasochist" – Neurosurgeon
"NOCTOR"– A nurse who has done a 6 week training course and acts like she or he is a Doctor;
"Two beers" — the number of beers every patient involved in an alcohol-related automobile accident claims to have drunk before the accident.
Check out the entire list. Those docs are a tough bunch.
Fashion trends
Check out Esquire’s slideshow (on the left below) illustrating the evolution of men’s fashion over the past 75 years. Then, take a look at this Time Magazine slideshow (on the right below) exhibiting the worst of golf fashion over the past century.
My sense is that there is a connection.
Barackroll
As political satire, the video below probably doesn’t top this one, but it’s close.
Enunciate!
Come to think of it, I had a difficult time understanding Batman at times, too.
"It’s all your fault"
Julie Alexandria of the always-clever WallStrip explains how speculators became the latest business villains of the moment. Enjoy.
The Waiting Game
Moira Hodgson’s W$J review of waiter/blogger Steve Dublanica’s new book — Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip–Confessions of a Cynical Waiter — is a rollicking good time. Check out Hodgson’s analysis of the merits of Dublanica’s background for waiting tables:
Considering some of the customers he has to deal with, Mr. Dublanica’s background was the perfect training for his job: four years in a seminary studying to be a priest followed by work at rehab centers and homes for the mentally retarded. He says that 80% of the people he serves at The Bistro are perfectly nice; the rest are socially maladjusted psychopaths. He also has to contend with servers on drugs and an irritable, jumpy boss: "Like a soldier home from war, his eyes are always scanning the horizon for threats."
By the way, be careful about sending that food back to the kitchen:
The third time a woman sends back her de-caf coffee, saying it’s not hot enough, he dumps regular coffee into her cup, places it in a 400-degree oven, takes it out with a pair of tongs and delivers it to her table. But that story pales beside Mr. Dublanica’s account of a waiter who plays floor hockey in the kitchen with a returned hamburger patty before hosing it off and taking it back to the table.
Remembering Sam Kinison
The late Sam Kinison is a comedy legend who was part of a group of comedians nicknamed the Comedy Outlaws (Ron Shock and Bill Hicks were two other prominent members) that got their start in Houston during the early 1980’s, most often at the LaughStop on West Gray. Here is a hilarious video of Kinison on the Tonight Show, which includes Kinison’s under-appreciated singing voice and a lively discussion between Kinison and Johnny Carson on the subject of divorce. Enjoy!
Beijing = "People’s Republic of Houston"?
"Beijing is flat and sprawling and smoggy and jammed with traffic and nearly all new, which is why an American friend who’s been working there for the last couple of years calls it ‘the People’s Republic of Houston.’"
That’s the opening of From Mao to Wow! by Kurt Anderson of Vanity Fair. He goes on to say that a more accurate comparison is Beijing now with New York City of a century ago.
Which Starbucks stores are closing?
When Starbucks announced last week that it is closing 600 stores and laying off 12,000 employees, the company did not disclose which stores would be shuttered (got to get those lease buyouts finalized). However, that hasn’t stopped word from filtering out into the Web on the location of the shuttered stores. The Seattle Times has already generated this Google map containing a large number of the anticipated store closings.
However, the question that is on most Houstonians’ minds has not been answered. Will Lewis Black’s "End of the Universe" cease to exist after Starbucks is finished closing stores?
This clip includes video of the two stores as Black comments on the end of the universe on The Daily Show (H/T Life is a Thrill):
Update: Here is the full list of the stores that will be closing.