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yeah, on that LOL
My sister had to pull it off for me in the backwoods on the other side of our creek (she was 8 at the time)
NOT FUN!
conservaphobe
(1,284 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)...but I would trade your tick for my childhood case of weeping poison oak on my penis, testicles, and further on round the backside...
Middle of a nice, hot, sweaty summer too.
As General Buford said on the opening day of battle at Gettysburg: "Lovely, just lovely."
Number23
(24,544 posts)What the hell is going on around here??!!!??
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3catwoman3
(25,073 posts)She was a camp nurse for a summer when she was 25, and one time 3 little boys came to her in considerable discomfort because they had made use of the great outdoors and used what turned out to be poison ivy for TP.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)My mom sprinkled meat tenderizer on it and I was good to go.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)you're killin' me.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)my grandpa said that potatoes would fix anything.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)the toilet."
And my 12 year old brother came out of the bathroom and asked why we were flushing watches down the toilet because he confused Timex with Tampax.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I remember a sign saying "Please do not put cigarette butts in the toilet. It makes them soggy, and hard to light."
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)his name was Dog. And when she challenged us, she said, "You've been hanging out with this dog all day." And we said, "Well, yeah, but we don't know who's dog he is and that is why we call him dog."
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)And it wasn't actually a real beach.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)Didn't help but made us laugh
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Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)It worked. She would also blow in my nose for no good reason and pretend to spit in my ear.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)Contrary1
(12,629 posts)Feel free to fill in the rest.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)We had an old asphalt parking lot. In August
Contrary1
(12,629 posts)My comment was referring to an ongoing line in American Pie.
The only camp I ever attended was back in the very early 60's. Catholic. All girl. No fun at all.
In fact, I wrote a letter to the folks to come get me early. But, I never sent it. They had to do without other things to get me there.
So, I lied and told them I had the time of my life.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)But I didn't have any sexual innuendo come to mind to fill in the blanks
That camp you did go to sounds pretty sucky. Camp for me was Boy Scout camps, and other than the heat and sometimes scorpions, wasn't all that bad. I probably wouldn't survive them today
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)knee.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)One of my favorites. I can remember playing it on public radio back in the day...
edbermac
(16,075 posts)Half an hour later I felt like John Hurt in Alien.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)eShirl
(18,698 posts)to the tune of "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain"
There's a skeeter on my peter
Whack it off
(repeat ad nauseum)
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I could have posted in that thread that I got shot in the face with an AK-47 in Vietnam. Opened me up from the corner of my lip down most of my neck. When my medic asked me to take my hand away the whole thing flapped open. When I finally got to the evac hospital the docs asked me to pull the dressing away. When all of the docs and nurses exclaimed, "Ugh!" I slapped it right back.
Funny thing is that the entry wound, halfway between my nose and my upper lip, required only two stitches. Yet the damage took 18 months in an Army hospital to repair, plus having to have the repairs re-done--twice--in a Navy hospital years later.
When I get a shaving cut, don't look for me to post here about it.
betsuni
(27,123 posts)When I read about your injury I couldn't stop crying. I'm so sorry that happened to you. You are nice and funny and good.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I love your wit!
Don't worry about me, though. Despite my predictions and expectations, I'm still here. Who wouldda thunk?
I think you are nice and funny and good, too.
betsuni
(27,123 posts)I'm still going to cry a little more, though.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Though in our darker moments, just among ourselves, we say that those on the Wall were the lucky ones.
Those who were there, or who were combatants in other conflicts, will uderstand.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Last edited Tue Jul 8, 2014, 04:34 PM - Edit history (1)
After 20 years, my medic found me. He saw an interview I did with Good Morning America near the Wall on one of the veterans' holidays, and when he called them the producers gave him my phone number.
Doc said he still had the letter I wrote him from the hospital. I wanted to let the guys in the platoon know I was okay (which turned out to be a good thing, because they'd been told I died). So I wrote that letter, and somehow was smart enough to address it to my medic.
Doc said he struggled with PTSD ever since Vietnam. He said my letter literally saved his life...and I knew exactly what he meant.
The kicker, though, was that Doc still remembered, off the top of his head, how I closed that long-ago letter: "P.S.: Your bedside manner sucks."
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Orrex
(63,759 posts)They cured the pain, but they were never able to relieve the swelling.