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A good friend of mine , after 6 years of medical school and training has been fired for ONE minor indiscretion. He slept with one of his patients and can no longer work in the profession. What a waste of time, effort, training and money! He is still paying on school loans. Just goes to show you how only ONE minor mistake can ruin your life.Please keep him and his family in your thoughts during this holiday season. He is a really great guy and one of the best veterinarians I know .

Originally I wrote this in responce to a subject `Faith Hope and charity' forum entry, but think I should start a fresh. Thankyou Mike though for your insperation. It actually made me feel better after i stopped typing and helped aligned my ducks slightly. Sorry if i seem to preach but i am talking to myself more so... Here we go.... real deep breath in.... There is no real meaning to anything.. everything is a construct..a metaphor..an idea.The lines and shapes our minds draw around things are just lines and shapes.We bring meaning to ...

Happy Thanksgiving to all MAO folks and their families! Hope your holiday is safe and healthy! Puppyluv

Watching a movie that is very refreshing  Under the Tuscan Sun   Recommended by: Cplumber

Hi Guys,   Just checked Notifications and it says 71 people liked my "bumping my head" post.  But they all liked it at 1:02pm......within the same minute.  I've never even seen that many people on here at one time.   I sent Admin a note, but I got a hunch something is amiss. Anybody else seeing weird stuff regarding your posts? regards, bob

The turkey coop I built is pretty much a big square box with a flat roof that overhangs on each side a good deal.  The front of the coop roof is about 6' off the ground and it slopes backward down to about 3 1/2 feet at the back end.  So I'm out there in the dark chasing my 3 gals around the yard trying to get them into the coop for the night.  I got the first two in no sweat.  But the third one is getting smart.  So when I go to grab her she runs behind the coop, where it's too low for me to chase her.  There...

Many of us are hotdog lovers. Easy to fix, simple to eat. Just shove it into a fresh bun, plop on your favorite additives (mustard etc. – no self-respecting hotdog devotee would sully it with ketchup), and you got your meal. But most people don’t know how the hot dog came to be so named. Despite being ever present at American picnics and holiday gatherings, the simple hot dog was originally a unique Far Eastern delicacy. In Viet Nam, where they have eaten dog for centuries, they used to just roast it on a spit like a rabbit (on...

I ALMOST PEED LAUGHING!!!HOW DO COURT RECORDERS KEEP STRAIGHT FACES????These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and published by court reporters that had the torment of staying calm while the exchanges were taking place. ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?WITNESS: He said, 'Where am I, Cathy?'ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?WITNESS: My name is Susan!_______________________________ ATTORNEY: What gear were...

Who doesn’t hate flies? Useless, disease-carrying insects, it is hard to think of a worst pest than the common housefly (Musca domestica). In the summer, when we are opening our doors and windows and coming and going more than in the wintertime, houseflies come into their own. Flies, of the order diptera, have been around since the Cenozoic era, some 65 million years ago. They begin reproducing within just 36 hours of emerging from the pupa, which kind of redefines prepubescent sex. Fly copulation takes between a few seconds to a cou...

WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOURS GONE? We stopped at the supermarket to pick up a few essentials. My wife wanted to do some baking but there was this huge empty space on the store’s shelf. I called a clerk over. “Where have all the flours gone?” I asked. “I guess we’re all out,” she said. “How can you be out of flour? Are you sure there’s not some in the storeroom?” “I’ll go check,” she said, and disappeared. A few minutes later she reappeared, her store manager in tow....

I may not be the prettiest woman. Average is fine, but I'm me. I love to eat more than I should. I have scars because I have a history. Some people love me. Some people dislike me (their loss). Some may even block and hate me (bless their hearts). I have done good. I have done bad. I don't always get my hair all fancy. I am random and silly. I don't pretend to be someone I'm not. I’m not the smartest, but I’m not dumb. I am who I am. I hope that if our paths have crossed I’ve treated you with kindness and if not then I'm ...

ONE OF THE SAD realities of the aging process is that one gets to make the acquaintance of an ever-increasing number of physicians. The more one’s deteriorating body succumbs to the insistence of time, the more these lords of the medical profession offer you a serious posture along with their lists of prescriptions, proscriptions, and pooh bah health regimens designed to fend off the unfendable. Then there’s another type of prima donna: lawyers. The very nature of these two professions produces people with an inflated sense of ...

I was just talking to my BFF, who moved to Ottawa a few years ago. She is 100% Inuit so I just refer to her as my Edmonton Eskimo. For those of you who follow football (Canadian that is) our team was called exactly that, until someone decided that Eskimo wasn't politically correct. Mary said, "They should have asked us first!" Everything means different to different people. Anyway, Mary has 2 daughters – both medical doctors living in Florida. Before she hung up the phone, Mary (who does not have a political bone in her body, even...

Maybe it's just me, but just once I'd like to see this tagline in a political commercial. "America, you'll be just fine without this a**hole in your life. We're the American Ostomates, and we approve this ad."