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What I'd like to see is Faulkner's paragraphs laid out in verse. Much of what he writes reads more like poetry than prose... I'll go a-seeking today after the feast for examples...
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Forgive my puzzlement. This thread subject is "words from medicine." I see no medical jargon anywhere. Unless "ballroom" is supposed to hint that trousers are too tight.
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Listen, wwh, you guys started this thread months ago, and it never was about medicine that I could see in a brief perusal. It has permutated from ballroom balls to a discussion of free verse, so I figured, what the heck, I'll give it a whack with my observation that Faulkner is often poetic in his prose. Now I don't know whether the old Southern bourbon tippler wrote about ballroom balls... If there were a story worth telling about one with ramifications about family secrets, I sure he would have worked it into his convoluted tales.
And anyway: there's the dreaded sports word on the German forum, so there are deep hidden secrets even on this word board. Makes me think of the Hardy boys... And we certainly are a hardy bunch of word hounds, if sometimes illogic (not illogical here in deference to previous posts about Dr. Spock on some other thread in the word lagoon).
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Dear WW: I have been subject to menacing minatory missives about posting in what the deponent declared dubious districts. I was mildly amused that the original gaffer had not been gutted. Anyway, a thing about words from medicine was uninspired, there are so censored deleted expurgated unmentioned unprinted many of them that no board member would ever want to know.Maybe lorenzo was dei Medici, and that explained his choice of place to post. His next question probably would have been what is the name of the ventilation opening in the ceiling above the ballroom, that was central to the stern inquiry:"Where were you when the skat hit the fan?"
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In reading this thread again, I cast my vote for star ball...those glittering reflections of the ballroom walls, windows, mirrors, and tapestries take me right back to Disco Castle, where it was dreadfully difficult for the knights to boogaloo in that clanging armour.
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This thread subject is "words from medicine." I see no medical jargon anywhere
Forgive the delay--I don't often read "below the equator" these days. I had it on good authority that the initial post was put here due to the person's lack of knowledge of how to use this board.
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Jackie, There's a dizzying continuity in this thread, however. You check under Medicine--you get the star ball--you dance through the posts here--you get dizzy--you fall down--you go to the doctor 'cauze your head's spinning 'round--he says, "Like a star ball?"--you say, "Yeah, funny your should mention that..."
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I come to this thread for the laughter it gives me.
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Hi. My name is Connie and I'm an addict. I am addicted, as are many of you in this ballroom, to AWADtalk. I have to have it every day. I have logged on to other peoples' computers to check the board. I can no longer lurk, but have to post. Sometimes I click to reply and catch myself and force myself to cancel the reply. I am guilty of dittography. I often wear my cloak of invisibility while checking the board. I have met other addicts you know who you are and we have talked about our posts to the board.  I sometimes talk about the board to people that have never been here and say things like "I'll have to post that, that is hilarious." They look at me funny and move slowly backwards  . But I know that you here in this ballroom are all saying "Amen, sister." I feel your love. ROTFLMFAO
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Hi, Connie. My name is Jackie. Um...I hate to tell you this, but I think it's about 12 steps to becoming Carpal Tunnel... 
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Having recently abandoned "addict' for "old" (I'll take the latter, I guess), I hereby pass the Addict Torch to you, consuelo...at least you still have a fighting chance! I'm afraid I'm already beyond AWAD Recovery!  And, thanks alot, Connie, just what I needed...another Main Thread to follow! [screaming-at-the-slower-than-molasses-loading-to-let-me-in-e!]
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Dear WO'N: I am not happy when I check "Who's Online" and see myself called a "User"
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It is so good to see this strange thread up and running again. This is the "Anything Goes" thread. This is the thread that'll make you dizzy reading it, just like that spinning ball in the ballroom. And it's the thread that, unless you read the whole thing, you won't have any idea at all why it appears on the Medical Terms forum.
Thank you, jmh, for bringing this one back. Who knows what kind of nonsense might appear here in the next few days?
In case the Asp looks in, I want her to be very proud of me for referring to "Anything Goes" above and thinking inside my head, "Cole Porter, Cole Porter"!
Boat regards,
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Anyone longing for another go at the ballroom? May I have this dance?
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I'll dance with you, Consuelo! Anything goes at the Medicine Ball!
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I was knocked off my feet, when just a lad, by a medicine ball thrown at my stomach during gym...I still remember the way it felt for three days after. Why are (or is it were; have I outlived them and thus avenged myself on the instrument if not the perpetrator) they called medicine balls?
The ceiling-hanging, spot-dancing balls were called glitterballs at the palais. But not named after Gary Jesuit Glitter.
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I think medicine balls might be so called because, in order to become strong, you have to take your medicine or the hard work you have to do with the medicine ball.
That's just a guess.
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After a deal of searching I found this:
WHERE DOES THE TERM "MEDICINE BALL" COME FROM? It is rumoured that Hippocrates, the father of medicine used a large heavy padded ball to sweat fever from his patients. The earliest descriptions of what is now called a medicine ball can be found in ancient Greek and Egyptian writings.
Hmmm...well...maybe, just maybe.
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By the way. That was a neat (US usage) way to get the topic back to medicine, don't you think?
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In reply to:
I'll dance with you, Consuelo! Anything goes at the Medicine Ball!
and:
In reply to:
By the way. That was a neat (US usage) way to get the topic back to medicine, don't
you think?
....Do you now understand how my mind works?
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Yep. You dangle the bait and see which of us takes a bite!
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This thread never was about medicine, unless you count the curative powers of smiling and laughing  and dancing till you're dizzy
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This thread never was about medicine
Then what's it doing in Words from medicine? Huh? Answer me that!
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Faldage,
Only Lorenzo knows, and Lorenzo disappeared on October 19, 2000.
Lorenzo's Ball
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Ironic, isn't it, that the most-read thread on the medicine forum has little much to do with medicine?
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If its an irony board maybe we should all read in flat mode.
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Ironic, isn't it, that the most-read thread on the medicine forum has little much to do with medicine?
Ironic, but perhaps not that surprising. A medicine thread will probably be of only superficial interest to other-than-physicians or paramedical or complementary personnel, presumably hoping [altruistically, of course] to share their knowledge. Things may be worth a quick read but not yield more that a superficial discussion. The topics of keenest interest will be too personal to generate a broad base of (public) responses...
Back to work!
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In reply to:
Ironic, isn't it, that the most-read thread on the medicine forum has little much to do with medicine?
No idea what I was thinking.
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Doesn't matter. We all knew exactly what you meant :-)
EDIT: And it's probably not too hard to figure out what you were thinking, either -- whether to say "has little to do with..." or "has not much to do with..." and winding up saying both at the same time. (I'm sure there's a word for that!)
Or maybe just writing one and then re-writing the other, with incomplete editing
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knew exactly what you meant
And if that's the least worst we can say about it...
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This ungoverned thread has little to do with medicine, but it reminds me of one of my favorite medical words, gubernaculum, which is derived etymologically from little governor; from gubernare = to control, and the diminutive suffix -culum. The gubernaculum of the testis is the fetal cord which guides the descent of the testis. (from http://www.emory.edu/ANATOMY/AnatomyManual/Etymology.html) An interesting "ball" in medicine is the "fungus ball" that can grow in the lungs of patients infected with aspergillis. I've always thought it would be hilarious if a microbiology association had a yearly gala called "The Fungus Ball." But enough silliness. It is now nearly 6:00 PM on Friday, and time to leave work and go to our clinic's annual Christmas party.
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For the many of board members who never had to struggle with embryology, the testes
are originally close to the kidneys. I cannot grasp how the Lord brought it about that the
testes should keep moving toward the pelvis, passing between the layers of the abdominal
muscles and into the scrotum. I'm not religious, but I can understand the temptation to
believe in "intelligent design". I don't see any way just evolution could have done it.
Teleologically, the development of the sperm is favored by the somewhat lower tempreature
in the scrotum. Though it puts the testes at risk of external violence. (Cringe, cringe)
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WARNING: adult theme
... the engineers discussing what kind of Engineer God must have been.
Shortening it (but not totally emasculating it in the process, I hope):
They concluded that He must have been a Civil Engineer,
because no one else would have put the playground
right next to a toxic waste dump...
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"intelligent design"
On the other hand, if there were intelligent design, the development of the sperm could have been favored by somewhat higher temperatures.
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And if there had really been intelligent design, babies would be delivered by opening a zipper.
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I find the structure and function of the eye to be mind-boggling, and it seems almost impossible that such a complicated organ could evolve.
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And then there's the mantis shrimp eye.
There are eyes and eyes, multitudes of eyes, evolved in different ways and for different purposes.
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Some good times I remember - my birthday that September, we lay down on the lawn, and counted until dawn, the stars that we lay under. And is he still, I wonder, the fairest of them all, mirror, mirrorball. http://www.lyricsdir.com/e/everything-but-the-girl/mirrorball.php
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Ah, I love this old thread. Glad to see it resuscitated, C..s...
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