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"Scientists at NASA have developed a gun built specifically
   to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets
   and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is
   to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to
   test the strength of the windshields. British engineers heard about
   the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new
   high-speed trains. Arrangements were made. But when the gun was fired,
   the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurtled out of the barrel,
   crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens,
   crashed through the control console, snapped the engineer's backrest
   in two and embedded itself in the back of the cabin. Horrified, the
   Britons sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with
   the designs of the windshield, and begged the U.S. scientists for
   suggestions. NASA's response was just one sentence, "Thaw the
   chicken."


  

It is quite common during the first clinical year for med 
students to suddenly "pass out" from standing bedside too 
long. I remember one of these sessions where the patient was 
an English tourist visiting Malaysia, and ended up sick in my 
hospital.  We were all gathered in the patient's room and the 
clinician went on and on and on.  The patient was clearly 
waiting for something to happen.  Finally the clinician asked for 
a volunteer to do a basic physical on the young man.  The next 
thing we knew, one of the junior med students had fainted, and 
landed face down onto the patient's crotch.  He must be one
impressed tourist.

Last night my spouse was berating me for wanting to check my 
email as soon as I got home from work. "You know", she 
complained, "I think that work rules your life".

"No dear," I replied, "_you_ rule my life. I just prefer work."

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