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The Daily Dose/October 5, 2007
By Gaylon Kent
The Writer's Shack
Notes From Around The Human Experience...
WHOOPS! OUR BAD!: A Long Island, NY, woman is suing a New York medical lab for screwing up her biopsy results, telling her she had cancer last year, which led to a May, 2006 double mastectomy, which led, four months later, to the lab saying, whoops, sorry Darrie Eason, you really don't have cancer, and, in fact, never did. Our slapdick tech got a couple of tissue samples mixed up. Sorry about that.
Whoops! Our Bad II: Which led to another problem (and lawsuit), because another woman was told, good news, you are cancer free, only to find out later she wasn't.
Well, That Helped: Funny thing is, Eason actually got a second opinion, but the doctor merely utilized the original lab results, in which case the second opinion could've been given by a clerk at Walgreens. I mean, were not experts on the matter, though we did see the movie Sicko, but what use is a second opinion if the person giving that opinion is relying on the same information the first doctor was? "Um, yes, yes, the first tissue sample does, indeed say you have cancer, ma'am, so I guess that's that. We don't need to bother with another biopsy or anything like that, it says it right here! Sorry."
Your 15 Minutes Will Be Up After A Station Break: Eason is making the obligatory tee vee rounds, and is suing the lab that made the error.
Long Term Planning: Eason, who is 35, and a single mother must now continue here search for a man with one kid, a weight problem, and, even worse, no tits. But at least she's cancer free. Of course, she was cancer-free before all this, but still, it's good to be sure.
ON THIS DATE: In 1905, Wilbur Wright flies Wright Flyer III 24 miles in 39 minutes at Huffman Prairie, outside of Dayton, Ohio. It is a world record that will last until 1908.
In 1947: President Harry Truman made the first televised presidential address from the White House, imploring citizens not to eat meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursday to help conserve grain to help feed hungry people in Europe.
FunFacts: In 1947 gas cost 15 cents a gallon, the average American made $2,850 a year and first class postage was three cents. Harry Truman made $75,000 as president.
THE LATEST FROM FRANCE, ER WALES: With the Rugby World Cup quarterfinals less than two days away, we would really like to be devoting space to the type of in-depth, quality analysis we really aren't qualified to offer, however one pressing issue has yet to be resolved prior to Saturday's thrashing of the French by our faves the All Blacks in Cardiff, Wales, even though France is the host country.
Recall that France cheated and won a coin flip to determine who would get their choice of what jersey (known as a strip in rugby) they were going to wear. France is sporting some ugly new navy blue jerseys at this World Cup, probably to commemorate their navy's getting their derriere handed to them in losing the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. They decided they want to wear them Saturday, however the All Blacks alternate jersey is, of all things, gray, which had World Cup officials of the opinion that both All Black strips, black and gray, are confusing when compared to the French's navy bleu, so now nobody know who is going to wear what, even though it seems to us, based on the pictures we've seen and our own personal experiences in the area of Color Identification, that navy blue and gray are pretty hard to confuse.
One More Thing: A little research shed some light into the other burning quarterfinal question: exactly why is France, the host country, playing a quarterfinal match in Wales? Well, as we all know, Wales hosted the 1999 Rugby World Cup and - and this will surprise you - more than a little intrigue was involved in this selection, and matches ended up being played also in France, England, Scotland and Ireland. More intrigue and shenanigans attended France's selection as host in 2007, resulting in matches this year being played not only in France and Wales, but also Scotland.
Fly In The Ointment: The problem was everybody expected France to win their pool (we know we were shocked by their second place finish) and be on the other side of the bracket, the one played in France. Had they won their pool, they would be playing Sunday, in Paris, in their national stadium, against Scotland, instead of Argentina.
Game On: Match the country in the quarterfinals with the nickname of their rugby team:
New Zealand Pumas
Australia Wallabies
France Flying Fijians
Argentina Springboks
South Africa All Blacks
Fiji Les Bleus Homosexuels
Note: England and Scotland do not have formal nicknames for their teams.
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