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Grex Enigma Item 220: Well, what *is* the world?
Entered by remmers on Thu Oct 13 09:18:19 UTC 1994:

In Item 216 of this conference, Emily B. Harkins writes:

    Is the world a round flat place that we fall off on to?

Well?  Is it?

14 responses total.

#1 of 14 by rcurl on Thu Oct 13 17:02:01 1994:

Who cares?

#2 of 14 by alfee on Fri Oct 14 02:08:23 1994:

I had a nasty fall at work today (to the amusement and delight of my 
residents and coworkers), and I shall definitely concur that whether flat
or round, the world is most certainly a place we fall off on to.
I've got the steri-strips and hematomae to prove it!

#3 of 14 by rcurl on Fri Oct 14 06:00:04 1994:

What kind of sadistic place do you work, that your residents and coworkers
were amused?

#4 of 14 by remmers on Fri Oct 14 10:14:13 1994:

Probably a medical facility of some sort.  It's typical behavior
in such places.

#5 of 14 by rcurl on Fri Oct 14 13:32:05 1994:

I have certainly experienced intentional humiliation in medical
facilities, a reason that I assiduously avoid them, and will self-treat
as long as possible. However, I am able to choose between humiliation and
death (or great agony) logically, if not with total gratitude.

#6 of 14 by brighn on Fri Oct 14 21:00:53 1994:

I choose death.  :-)
I've known people who have no end of laughter for other people's 
misfortune, as long as death or dismemberment are not involved.
I have contempt for such people, although if their numbers were not 
appreciable, "America's Funniest Home Videos" would have gone 
off the air after one episode.  How many years has it been now?

#7 of 14 by alfee on Sat Oct 15 00:31:24 1994:

My sadistic place of employment (for one more godforsaken week) is a 65-bed
nursing home.  Laughter in said situations there, when injury is either
nonspecific or minor, is practically required. 

How my fall occurred, to give you some perspective:
I was walking down the main hall of said nursing home, when someone called
my name from the opposite direction.  I turned around to answer, engaged in
a brief conversation while edging (backward) along my previous path, and 
struck a mostly invisible wheelchair, into which I initially fell.  The 
force at which I attempted to rescue myself propelled the wheelchair 
backwards and it flipped over.  This would have been a Home Videos Classic.
My wounds are healing nicely, but the hematomae are turning weird colors.

We only laugh when the staff do stupid stuff like this.  The residents give
us far better comedy material in other situations.

#8 of 14 by carl on Sat Oct 22 21:51:53 1994:

Does the quote in #0 imply that were all "fall guys?"

#9 of 14 by rcurl on Sat Oct 22 21:57:48 1994:

..and gals, at least until ca. 22 December.

#10 of 14 by anne on Tue Oct 25 19:32:11 1994:

what happens then?

#11 of 14 by rcurl on Tue Oct 25 22:01:29 1994:

Fall falls.

#12 of 14 by vishnu on Sat Nov 19 00:54:53 1994:

Hey, you know what, I'm hungry.

#13 of 14 by jaklumen on Thu May 30 08:43:46 2002:

Which reminds me..so am I.  You shall taste delicious, for I am the 
monster that shall eat Ann Arbor.

#14 of 14 by gelinas on Mon Dec 2 04:39:25 2002:

The world may be flat and round, but at least an elephant need not cock his
leg for the sun to pass.

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