WONDERFUL MEDICARE

since my foot hurts today, i have two options:

1.  do nothing and it will go away in a few days.

2.  see a doctor and be examined -----

     "DOES THAT HURT?"
         "YOW!"

      "DOES THIS HURT?"
          "WOW, YOW"!"

         "OHHHHHH KAAAAAAAY,  DOES THIS HURT?"
                  "AAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHH, YES!"


             "GO TO BED.  TAKE THESE PILLS EVERY 2 HOURS AND 12 MINUTES EXACTLY UNTIL THE PAIN GOES  AWAY.  I'LL BILL THE GOVERNMENT MY USUAL $150 BECAUSE I'M SO SMART."

"THANK YOU DOCTOR.  I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'D DO WITHOUT YOU."

DISCLAIMER TO THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY:  JUST KIDDING.

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can't figure out why i don't get electrocuted when i submerge my electric toothbrush.  i guess you have to do it the old fashioned way.

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FOOTBALL WEEKEND

wow, after 48 hours of football playoffs when i closed my eyes i was seeing little uniformed men running  around pounding each other, catching footballs dropping some on the run, kickoffs, assorted running plays.  whew!!!

thankfully i missed some of the most exciting moments.  my old cardiovascular system may not have been up to experiencing the last minutes of the ravens/broncos or falcons/seahawks game.  i tuned them out when they appeared to be over and then was surprised at how much i missed.

my real surprise is in the ineptness of the coaching staffs of both the broncos and falcons who thought they are superbowl contenders.  as you know the falcons survived their incompetence.

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SPOTLESS MIND

thinking about movies this time of year, i have decided to change my selection of the best movie to, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind".  i fell in love with kate winslet.  i hope kirsten dunst, also in the movie,  my previous true love doesn't mind.

at 150 years old all you have left is your memories.  erasing even the ones you cringe at probably is not a good thing.  new experiences at this age is a mere sliver of how experiences affected you when you were a teenager.

the movie tends to examine the possibility of our life being prescripted and fated even if like a river a force can change its course.

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the only thing never revealed is what reasons the kate winslet character has for being at the same location as the jim carrey character the day after the memory erasing procedure.  we know that the jim carrey character was there on a whim.   

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saw the movie, "les mis...  (ummm, whatever)" last weekend.  i took it as an operatic piece and it was magnitudes better than that german piece of crap, " moses und aron (Schoenberg)" and other so called intellectual classics.  i would place this with the movie, "umbrellas of cherbourg" and it is a classic to be.

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nfl season is ratcheting down to the superbowl.  looks like i'm left cheering (lukewarmlike) for the remaining northeast teams, the patriots and the ravens.

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FLIM-FLAM DEAL

yea!   we survived 2012 after we almost fell off a cliff, mayan end of days calendar was overstated, and various religious sects apparently were wrong -- again.  but we're still stuck with remnants of a middle ages self-serving government.

we are supposed to be happy with a crappy deal consummated in the middle of the night by supposedly sober govt. people.

these guys obviouasly had trouble with third grade math but are good at selling used cars.  they're throwing up flim-flam numbers, confusing you, hiding their deceitfulness and ignorance.   if they would just cut what needs cutting and raise what needs raising it would probably work out just fine.

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