Villainous Company

"Paging Dr. Loreena Bobbitt...Stat!"

Heh.

Lady in the lower right corner to the doc out of frame: That was a sledgehammer you requested, right?

[sarcastically] "Oh Lawsy me! We wuz gonna treat you suh, honest. But dat sign say 'Coloreds only'."

"Oh hell, get some anesthesia in him and treat him anyway. What more are they going to do to us?"

"Oh darn, I do hate soggy crackers!"

KJ, you punk :)

Nurse: No way am I working on this guy. Besides, even if we save him he'll probably just get shot again.

*pause* *pause*

Alright then, let's get to work!

"Ok, now that we've got his head out, let's close up!"

"Well if that don't beat all...this is the first time I've ever heard the surgical team request anesthesia... for themselves before operating on a patient."

"But doctor, we've never actually seen a case of rectal-cranial inversion before...we thought you were kidding..."

"Ok, now that we've got his head out, let's close up!"

Argghhh! Your commenting cookie thing is driving me crazy! (firewall issue, not your fault)

I'm sorry - if I can get this paper I'm working on done I'll reinstall MT Blacklist. I've just been too busy to mess with it.

After getting his tires slashed, the bus driver refusing to pick him up, being held up, and getting his leg chewed on by a rabid ferret, Bubba was beginning to question the wisdom of Klan Days in the Ghetto.

Dr. Rezi Dent, who spent last night drinking instead of studying, sighs in relief when he realizes the chief surgeon won't be able to test him about the brain with this case.

"Oh no! Not the OTHER testicle this time!"

Mrs. Purple here--
you can call me anal retentive again, or whatever putdown you like, but I don't honestly find anything funny about a serious injury no matter who the victim is.
Sorry.

So you see no irony in this?

Sen. Robert Byrd (D - State of Byrd) enters a real DC hospital, after being told that the Senate Medical Center doesn't handle rectal-cranial operations.

Mrs. Purple here--
MM--there is no more irony in this than there would be if a white person were asked to give emergency treatment to Dick Gregory. Or if a Christian were asked to give emergency medical treatment to Bill Maher.
One would hope this would be an opportunity to save the fellow on the table morally and spiritually as well as physically, though that hope is probably in vain.

Their's were not the wrenching clasps of the unjustly wronged, but the inspired instruments of a divine comedian.

"The organ donor is ready for you now, doctor..."

Lordy mr klansman, I don't know nothing bout stemming the bleeding of an abdominal wound.

Mrs. Purple, your sensitivity is admirable. It's still a funny picture. As a photograph, I don't know if it is real or not. It looks like photo shop from ER. Isn't that doctor applying pressure to the wound the black doctor on ER all those years? If this were ER, it would go like this:

Nurse: Doctor, he has flatlined!
Dr.: Get me the paddles, stat! GET ME THE PADDLES!!
*sound effect of paddles hitting chest, body reacts*
*beep beep*

*Nurse enters room*
Nurse: Doctor, this kid has a hangnail. His heart has stopped.
Dr.: Nurse, bring the paddles, STAT! STAT I SAID!

Mrs. Purple,
I'm unaware of Dick Gregory, but if the implication is supposed to be something like the black panthers, then I *would* find it ironic. Bill Maher less so because, to my knowledge, he has never advocated violence against Christians. I would think it was hilarious had one (or more) of the Hussein's fallen into a plastic shredder, or a captured Hitler been circumcised by Jewish Doctors.

In real life, the medical team would absolutely do their jobs, and do everything they can to save the man's life, without hesitation. But after it was over, they too would probably be laughing at it. A lot of people will joke about things they would never actually do.

And keep in mind the difference between comedy and tragedy: Comedy is when it happens to someone else.

This photgraph offends me. I am offended. I come here for political discussion. My neighbor is a member of the klan, sure normally he would pay no attention to a political site but when he looks over my shoulder and sees one of his icons in a picture he is going to ask questions.

AND I AM GOING TO HAVE TO ANSWER THEM!!

And that isn't why I come here.

I too am outraged, you can plainly see an IV bag in the background that has been hung. This is clearly a veiled threat by the hospital to all the african-americans in the room. Will the lynchings never end?

You are all ridiculous :)

Mrs. Purple does not find this funny, and she has said so. I think perhaps the obvious solution is for her to sit this one out. That's what I do on blogs or threads when the subject under discussion is offensive or upsetting to me; something that happens a lot more often than you might suspect.

Humor is a highly subjective thing and is many times born of pain; something many people don't see at first blush and some never see at all. Humans laugh at that which shocks, surprises, or often secretly scares or hurts us. For some it's a way of whistling in the graveyard.

Some people find that offensive; they think that is making light of the issue. But it is not for any of us to tell another how to deal with something painful. As long as no one tries to be deliberately hurtful (something I think none of us would tolerate) I think we can allow each other some latitude regarding what is and is not funny, realizing that our sensibilities are going to differ.

A lot of people will joke about things they would never actually do.

Exactly. I do that all the time - it's how I vent, and then I can let things go.

IV bags are hung. People whose sensibilities are different than mine are hanged.

Well dung... I mean...dang.

Oh forget it.

Oh sure, KJ, you had to find some way to throw "innuendo" into the conversation! Does it never end with you??? I know, I know it's the EFI influence that's to blame.(~;)

spd rdr,
Your 9:36 pm post fr. yesterday wins 1st place hands down in my personal & unofficial judging.

DANG! That was laser precise. You said what I was thinking (in my scrambled egg, brain cluttered sorta way), and what would have taken me 4 paragraphs to express.
That was FREAKIN' brilliant, counselor!

Speaking of dung...

...argghhh! Dang it if there isn't a cross blog snark on Frank Rich in there somewhere and I can't find it.

I couldn't have said it better, Cat. Literally.

Nice, Menace :) very nice...

I think that was my laugh for the day. I love you guys.

"Quick get this man out of here, we can't treat him."
"Why? Because he's a Klansman."
"Naw, 'cause he's uninsured."

Cass,
Just so's you know-- Since Al Gore is already busy re-counting votes in the UK w/ his UN Team, I have Sen. Byrd Sheets...err..Sheets Byrd and his team on the ready for a possible vote re-count here.

Menace! You spelled argghhh! correctly! 10 points awarded to Gryffendor!

Cass, what I say here might step on some toes. I come here for insight, commentary and laughter. KJ, spd and I am sure others of our happy little band either live or have lived in the south.

The fact that our society has come a LONG way speaks volumes in that pic, that life should be preserved, no matter whose. I believe in a God that wants us to do that. Then there are those who support abortion.

Please, I have heard and seen some really hurtful, insensitive things relative to highway accidents
since our son was killed. That is human nature, to use humor to vent and fortify. I can't go up to every single person who said or did thus and correct them and I neither should nor should they be corrected. I have a hard enough time mourning his loss without being so sensitive to the point where I could not function. So I live and let live.

Gun shot wounds are not funny. But the supreme irony of seeing a Klansman in the ER being tended
by African-Americans in a caring and professional manner should also speak to our better selves, the ones that can grow and put away those attitudes that tear up our society. And maybe that Klansman will beat his stinking attitude into a plowshare of understanding and forsake his past.

I have enjoyed all the captions and comments.

Cass - I'm honored. We love you too.

John - I made sure to spell it right just for you.

"You want me to put the tourniquet WHERE??!!!"

Cricket darlin', you said what was in my heart, better than I could. I guess I was too close to it.

I know you all have probably figured out that I have been struggling with some pretty black moods this year. Sometimes humor, even bitter humor, is my only defense when it all closes in. I've heard people say if you can't laugh, you cry. I guess it's my way of thumbing my nose at the darkness.

When people joke about things, it's not always that they take them lightly. Sometimes they care too much.

The Grand Dragon and St. Georges Hospital

"When people joke about things, it's not always that they take them lightly. Sometimes they care too much."

I am just insensitive.

That's why we love you. There's entirely too much sensitivity going on around this place.

At the Secret Malcom X School of Exploratory Medicine.
Dr. Jamal: "Aha, I've found proof that the KKK are not complete idiots."
Nurse: "I see, some parts are missing."

Cricket, that's a good one :)

'Oh my gosh, he is literally full of S***'