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Originally Posted by KevinMDOK
Yeah, reminded me of the time I was at the store at saw a thermometer that was labeled "high speed rectal thermometer".
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Well now, how long would you like to have one of those things in you?
High speed reading, and get that thing out.
In the 60s I had a stomach surgury for a combat wound in the military with a lot of painkiller to knock me out. As I started to wake up a nurse stuck one of those things in my butt. Hardly awake I knew when she left for shift change leaving that glass thing with mercury in my ass. Still mostly asleep from the surgury I told my self over and over, don't pass out - don't pass out that thing can break.
After an hour the head nurse (I could see the eagle on her collar) came over to set me up. All I could do was grunt and try to point back to my butt. It took at least six times with me trying to resist before she turned me over and took a look.
She yelled Oh my God, someone left a daffodil in this guy's ass.
(Daffodil via Latin from Greek asphodelos; compare with daffodil. Thus, this is slang for a rectal thermometer.)
It was s fight to try and stay awake, but I knew something bad for me would happen if that thing broke off.