#39787
09/01/2001 9:25 PM
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Okay, Geoff, since you brought it up I guess somebody has to do it. So let me make the requisite mention of the famed Amish enclaves in Lancaster, PA...Intercourse and Bird-in-Hand!  (there's a few more, but I'd have to look 'em up) And I remember that William Least Heat Moon in his incredible travelogue, Blue Highways, mentions a little town he came across in Tennessee (I believe) called Nameless!
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#39788
09/01/2001 9:57 PM
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well, i think i rather live in Nameless TN, than some other towns.. take pity on all the folks of Farmingdale, NY-- who are least better off than the residents of Hicksville NY. and New England offers Dummerston VT, and Dummer NH.
these name are family names made into place names.. some members of Hicks family still live in the area, they are Hicks from Hicksville! and Dummer is named for a Lt. Governer, but they never lived in the town.. imaging being John Dummer, from Dummerston!
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#39789
09/01/2001 11:08 PM
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imagine being John Dummer, from Dummerston
Three-plus centuries ago a Mr. Dummer (Benjamin Dummer, I believe) founded a school which has now become a major university. It is fortunate that a few decade later, another gentleman made a fairly major contribution to the school, whereupon the school was re-named after that donor.
Otherwise, Yale University would now be Dummer University.
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#39790
09/01/2001 11:19 PM
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There is a prestigious private (tuition paid) high school in northeast Massachusets named after the Lt. Gov.:
Governor Dummer Academy.
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#39791
09/02/2001 1:51 AM
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I know of a Dr. Bone who is principal investigator in clinical studies of osteoporosis.
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#39792
09/02/2001 1:54 PM
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Lest we forget :
Dew Drop Inn for a motel, Dun Workin' for a retirement domicile; and the name of dingy in the comic strip "Shoe"
"Assignment" -- so that the newspaper's receptionist could say, in truth, that the Editor was not available because he was out on "Assignment." (grin-e)
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#39793
09/02/2001 11:47 PM
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I was taught reproductive medicine by a Dr Breed (Submitted as evidence: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/site-bin/ppldisplay.pl?id=A/B/35743-BREED). From memory we also have a Dr Butcher in Orthopaedics and a Dr Kneebone who specialises in gait disturbance. The stop-start method of delaying orgasm/ejaculation was developed by Dr Semans.
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#39794
09/03/2001 1:17 AM
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...and doc comfort specializes in ?
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#39795
09/03/2001 1:47 AM
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And how can we forget the inventor of the modern flush toilet, the immortal Thomas Crapper. and yes, I know that old chestnut is apocryphal, and therefore of course unlike all else posted here.
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#39796
09/03/2001 1:55 AM
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wow asks ...and doc comfort specializes in ?
As the name suggests, alcohol addiction.
In truth, intending to specialise in neurology, psychiatry, or a hybrid of the two.
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#39797
09/03/2001 4:51 AM
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old hand
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...and doc comfort specializes in ?
Don't forget that Alex Comfort wrote the book, The Joy of Sex, which had a seminal influence in its day.
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#39798
09/03/2001 5:27 AM
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In reply to:
take pity on all the folks of Farmingdale, NY
Am I missing something here? Seems a perfectly unobjectionable name to me.
Bingley
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#39799
09/03/2001 12:20 PM
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doc comfort say he is : In truth, intending to specialise in neurology, psychiatry, or a hybrid of the two.
Heavens to Betsy! Miracles do happen. A doctor who would treat a person with dis-ease rather than just the dis-ease!
What will they ever come up with next?
Aside : a sign I'd like to see in every Doctor's office :
"The absence of disease is not the same as good health."
{/grumble}
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#39800
09/03/2001 3:05 PM
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My wife, who teaches nursing, has long been dissatisfied with the typical test-questions which refer to patients as "Mr. X, age 72" or "Miss Z, age 27", etc.
She instead uses made-up names keyed to the medical problem involved. Thus, the patient suffering from effects of alcoholism is the noted British peer, Sir Osis. The female VD patient is Lucinda Streets. More technically-named patients are Al Kalosis and Acey Dosis.
She would appreciate further names, and asks me to solicit your ideas. (Of particular interest are names relating to the courses she is teaching this semester: (a) surgical nursing; and (b) development of young- to middle-aged adults.)
PS: uniformly, her students entirely fail to get the joke.
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#39801
09/03/2001 8:39 PM
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>The Joy of Sex, which had a seminal influence in its day.
Nominated for a TEddy! Not that that will make a vas deferens to anyone!
TEd
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#39802
09/03/2001 8:55 PM
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Well, there's always Carmen Cold.
Pan Creatitis
Paul E. O.
Ski Zophrenic and
Perry Noid, his cousin
A. Sid Reflux
O. Titus Medea (He's a real pain)
McUlar Degeneration
Tiny Tuss
F. U. Vertigo (no just a short ways)
: Itis
Juaninta Oven
Mayo Carditis
N. Doe Metriosis
Harry Palms (specific to adolescence of course)
N. U. Rhesus
I need to go feed the kids!!!!
TEd
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#39803
09/04/2001 12:46 AM
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The Joy of Sex, which had a seminal influence in its day.
Nominated for a TEddy! Not that that will make a vas deferens to anyone!
So, TEd, care to give us urinalysis of the book?
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#39804
09/04/2001 9:09 AM
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We used to make up names for testing our directories and address books. In amongst those names were:
Mustafa Fag (in UK context Fag is cigarette, so maybe either the surname or disease needs changing!)
Ivan Nastichestikov (possibly originally from "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"'s late arrivals)
Rod
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#39805
09/04/2001 4:24 PM
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> So, TEd, care to give us urinalysis of the book?
Nope. I don't do yellow journalism.
TEd
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#39806
09/04/2001 9:12 PM
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Once in college I visited student health because I had a bad case of jock itch, and the doctor I saw that day was named "Dr. Dick." I thought that was pretty funny.
There is a medical student here whose last name is "Looney," and he is thinking about going into psychiatry. I pray every night that he does!
There is a town here in Kentucky named "Nonesuch." Honest. I've seen it on a map.
There's a liquor store right outside a dry county here. As you're headed in the direction towards the dry county the sign says "Last Chance Liquors," and on the other side it reads "First Chance Liquors."
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#39807
09/05/2001 2:28 AM
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Alex, you must really be an old timer to have been treated by Dr. Dick. Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick was George Washington's physician.
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