HOSPITAL, n. A place where the sick generally obtain two kinds of treatment- medical by the doctor and inhuman by the superintendent.
2006 Update: A veterinary establishment to which illness, insurance, science and public policy can be brought for care. A saloon for the anti-social.
Hospital... akin to a deathchamber for bohemians... *shudder*... in Spain, an establishment where accidental death by epidural may be attempted on grandmas 3 times...
ReplyDeletesome kind of amusement park where people can try their fitness. typically visited by the old and sick, that often fail.
ReplyDeleteHospital, n., A prohibitively expensive, full-service hotel, where witchcraft is practiced. The room service is generally lousy and the food is tasteless when you're lucky.
ReplyDeleteAll in all I'd rather be in Philadelphia.
I thought hospitals were just for prime-time drama nowadays!
ReplyDeleteSeems we always end up in a store front "Walk-in Clinic" right between the grocery store and the video mart. At least one of you can wait for a Nurse Practitioner while the other procurs the groceries and entertainment.
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Didn't they recently apply to join the EU?
It really is a dog's life, eh, Doug?
ReplyDeleteHOSPITAL, n. A word derived, in a much mangled condition, from hospitality. A calumny on the memory of the "last Crusaders". In French, hôpital - a bitter irony.
okyeo - a cowboy in Japan.
Geez, Miz B, you'd think professionals could get it right the first time.
ReplyDeleteAriel, I guess it's more fun than shuffleboard.
TLP, a hospital in Philadelphia would make a poor grave, I guess.
Logo, great job on the verifier. How could I miss the filmset gag? Well done!
Sure is, O'Ceallaigh. That's an interesting history. Thanks for the link.
Well, sure, Cowgirl. If human patients wore steel shoes I bet the standards for physicians would rise.
Hospital n. A loose federation of small fiefdoms each run by a demi-god
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the place where they come back to twist the knife they stuck in your back
ReplyDeletefhcozyrl: a warm, comfortable place inside a frill
Hospital: A place where a box of tissues costs &17.95.
ReplyDeleteHospitals are where little writers and her brother spent copious amounts of time and are known by their first names: him from sports injuries and her because she's very graceful.
ReplyDeleteVillage Idiot, no lords and ladies?
ReplyDeleteKarma, nicely jaundiced.
Cowgirl, I have no experience with the aluminum. Western cowhorses are lucky we can't make shoes out of granite.
Haha, Barefoot Mistress. As distinguished from the space shuttle where they're $1723.57 and probably worth every penny. Welcome!
Jenna, my father's like that. I learned to drive taking him to the emergency room everytime something needed fixing. I learned to flout speed limits and respect hammers.
Only because I recognize my gender, S.F. Glad you're back.
hospital (n) autobody shop for humans
ReplyDeleteservices ranging from collision damage and engine failure to repriming, painting and detailing.
They just won't let well-enough alone! They wake you up to give you a sleeping pill.
ReplyDeleteDoug, The poem is up, if you'd like to stroll on over and take a read.
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man, I am getting good ones today.
Still Life, I sure appreciate you. That's too funny. I need my steering wheel and brakes looked at.
ReplyDeleteIcy, I remember that actually.
Actonbell, must you make it sound so unattractive?
Oh, good, Logo! I'll be right there.
"They wake you up to give you a sleeping pill." - LOL!
ReplyDeleteHospital -- A monastery filled with Hospitaliers.
ReplyDeleteAlternate definition.
A monastery filled with the sworn enemies of Future Masons
Minka is not here should I attempt 11?
ReplyDeleteDoug & Co., I'm going to be on the road and may not be checking in regularly until I get back to sunny [gag] california in ten days or so. Look here for an explanation if you can stand the thought.
ReplyDeleteBe well, and stay out of hospital.
pyrgolh ... no, that's a chemistry joke. I'll let it be.
A good hospital is the nearest thing to heaven, when the people in it have just saved the life of your child :-)
ReplyDeleteOther than that, one of the most aggravating places on the planet to hang out.
Ariel, listen to Icy. She knows things.
ReplyDeleteVillage Idiot, that may be too esoteric for me. I suspect there's something pretty funny about the freemason joke made all the better because I don't get it. Let Minka keep the record until she gets back to defend herself.
O Ceallaigh. Safe strip and I wish you good times with your scanning electron microscope. Sounds like a four-alarm riot.
That's the thing about hospitals, Kyah Girl, you sure are greatful when you need them, but you'll crawl out on your belly once you're stable.
Hospital : A big house of illness that smells like spilled medicine everywhere, full of people dressed mostly in white moving around, asking questions and acting like they know it all.
ReplyDeleteHospital: Usually you go in there to have something removed. In my case, they are always putting stuff in.
ReplyDeleteOverall, I'd say to avoid going there if you can.
Doug, the idiot refers to the knights of templar and those darn crusades, he is being obscure again, he is in plagued with it, get him to a hospital, or a nunnery, oh...wait.
ReplyDeleteI pefer to be obtuse but then again...Logo, I am partial to the castle Anthrax and its grail shaped beacon.
ReplyDeleteObscurity is the bane of my existence..
no ...wait oh look..a chicken
Daydreamer, someone should point out that if they know it all, they shouldn't have to ask.
ReplyDeleteJamie Dawn, it's the putting in that scares me.
Yeah, Logo, I got the Hospitaliers and the crusades, I don't know the relationship to the masons. Not that I need to...
Well, V.I., the Pezes will catch you every time with Monty Python.
Doug...there is speculation is some quarters that the Free Masons trace their origins back to Templars on the Run. When they were all rounded up on Friday the Thirteenth, some got away, made their way to and through England. The speculation is for that many to disappear, there was some sort of secret order....Born in Blood is an interesting book.
ReplyDeleteaaaw, looky there, he is a well read and occasionally well spoken idiot. He is spelled everything right in that post.
ReplyDeleteI feel so proud.
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sheesh
it is catching
Not that much experience with them but I know that they have their own very special form of bacteria and if you are in one long enough you are bound to become infected with it........like their own special gift or something.
ReplyDeleteA hotel with horrible food and strange room service where "check out" takes on a whole new meaning.
ReplyDeleteLa la la la la.
ReplyDeleteWe are jus ta sexual making me an alcoholic relation.
Words hit much harder than bullets from a gun,
a shovel to the skull, a stab in the spine.
Be my valentine, you don't have to say much.
This machine is so mature, it's so much your type.
(boy) "You be Betty!"
(girl) "I'll be Betty!"
(boy) "I'll play Joe!"
(girl) "You play Joe!"
We'll crawl out of my window, honey,
and in the morning I'm out of my head,
I wish I was sleeping In your hospital bed.
Give me some time to get on your mind.
La la la la la.
Hey, come on down to my world.
The memories enhance the way that you feel.
I wanna get right back down but you're moving so fast,
and I wanna be everywhere twice.
This machine is so mature, it's so much your type.
(boy) "You be Betty!"
(girl) "I'll be Betty!"
(boy) "I'll play Joe!"
(girl) "You play Joe!"
We'll crawl out of my window, honey,
and in the morning I'm out of my head,
I wish I was sleeping In your hospital bed.
Give me some time to get on your mind.
La la la la. La la la la.
And in the morning I'm out of my head,
I wish I was sleeping In your hospital bed.
Give me some time to get on your mind.
A Village Idiot, interesting theory. Have you heard the Francis Bacon one? It has him responsible for the Rosicrucians as well.
ReplyDeleteLogophile, I cover my nose when V.I. posts.
Yeah, Alice. Hospital cooties are supposed to be the worst. I avoid nurses all together.
Haha, Comfort Addict. Nice addition.
Shayna, that's a new one.
AND doctors, Doug, and doctors...
ReplyDeleteHmmm aren't there usually posts here by now? Combine hospital with our host here being MIA, and it's too ominous a combination for me, frankly. Hurry up & post, Doug, you're impeding on my worry-free vacation here! ;)
ReplyDeleteYeah. What Sar said. Ain't you awake Ambrose?
ReplyDeleteOh, right, Ariel. Yeah a doctor's almost as smart as a little white dog.
ReplyDeleteSar and TLP, yes I'm around. I'm not sure baseball games should happen on weeknights but I needed to see Greg Maddux pitch one more time.