Richard B the EMT

I also add my condolences. I also have a request for a translation of "DIC" and "C&S". I might know these terms under different semantics, which is why I make frequent requests for not using abbreviations here. There is no real standard usage, between counties, states/provences, or countries.

While still formulating a real response to this string, I gotta say it was certainly different!

I might be aware of this, under a different title. Is this someone involved in "Rescue", someone who is a medical person on a Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team, something to do with so called "Wilderness EMS", or what?

New York Post article on this video... http://www.nypost.com/seven/07072008/news/...orld_118829.htm WEB CELEB 'HOOFS IT' AROUND THE WORLD By DAVID K. LI DANCE SENSATION: Internet phenomenon Matt Harding has posted videos of himself dancing with the locals in New Guinea. Last updated: 7:15 am July 7, 2008 Posted: 4:10 am July 7, 2008 A 31-year-old Connecticut native's goofy vacation lark has turned him into an Internet sensation. Matt Harding first recorded and posted himself online in 2003, dancing in various Southeast Asian countries he visited after quitting his job designing video games. Harding's online videos grabbed the attention of Stride gum, which offered to sponsor him strutting his stuff across the world again in 2006, '07 and earlier this year. Harding estimates that his online dance videos have been viewed more than 20 million times. "I will call it 'dancing,' but I wouldn't call it 'good dancing,' " Harding told The Post with a chuckle during an interview yesterday. Harding's worldwide exploits are posted on the site www.wherethehellismatt.com.

I'd be nervous. For weight loss, I was on "Fen-Phen", linked to cardiac valve failure, amongst other cardiac ailments. I checked out OK, but am now about to start "Alli".

By the way, what is "ARFF"?

Perhaps I am too polite.

Just throwing into the mix, my last plane crash was a 1930s model 4 seater single engine. All but the pilot's chair removed. Seems the carburetor froze, and the plane lost power, nearly hitting a 25 story senior's building. The pilot made a really nice dead stick landing on wet sand, near the Atlantic Beach Bridge, but then beat feet. Nassau County 4th Precinct LEOs caught him a few hours later. How does this fit into the string? The plane's cargo area, and the space normally taken up by the 3 removed seats? Full of illegal recreational pharmaceuticals! Normally, when I hear of stolen ambulances, I think back to the Lebanon Marine barracks, using an ambulance, and the first bombing attempt on the World Trade Center, using a rented truck. The vehicle becomes both the bomb, and it's own delivery system. Also, as who is going to stop an ambulance traveling lights and siren, I have seen Palestinian videos showing a Mideast area ambulance pulling up at a building, and, instead of local EMTs or Paramedics coming out with medical gear, a group of men in stereotype Hamas clothing, carrying AK 47s, and Russian designed RPGs, and rush into the building, obviously, with evil on their minds.

Al Capp's "Pogo" the Possum said many years ago... As for the "'R'/no 'R'" factor, speaking for myself, there's no "R" in May, June, July, and August, yet I have posted in all those months! And now, just to ignite a firestorm, I propose the concept that it is someone who was "banned" from the site, as a misdirection, a "red herring", just for this purpose.

Hmmmm...!? (Lyndon Banes Johnson, declining the run for POTUS, 1968.)

As n0ssb is in the CAP (per the "signature"), I have directed him to contact a friend of mine in the NY area CAP. n0ssb will advise all of us the results, I hope.

Somehow, I doubt even Lamont Cranston knows the identity of the Master! (For those who have never heard the old audio tapes from the 1930s and 1940s radio mysteries, or read books about them, Lamont Cranston WAS "The Shadow", who could "cloud the minds" of men, that they could not see him. Also, the Green Hornet was the great grand-nephew of the Lone Ranger!)

(A reminder that this was directed at Dorothy, the lion, the tin man, the scarecrow, and a dog named Toto.)

We do have some really smart idiots. I use as my example, the man who designs triggers for the nukes on an ICBM, but cannot figure out how to operate an electric can opener.

Is someone implying the master types with the left hand on one keyboard, and the right on another? I have vague memories reading of an 18th century president able to write ambidextrously, one hand in German and the other in French, simultaneously. No, not the same message at the same time.

In which case, can anyone give a plausible explanation why, in chat, I have seen almost all, at different times, with the administrator, and everyone had the indicator that they were typing at the same time? For the record, I am not the administrator. Sounds like some kind of bad spy novel, don't it? "The Administrator", the "Technician"?

I must be late to the party, as all I have seen of "Admin's" video feeds is the beer can.

It may not amount to much, but change the semantics.

"Ferris"? Wazzat?

Hulk? Not Superman, the "Fantastic 4's" "Thing", Spiderman, or any of the super strong from either DC or Marvel Comics, or other comics I admit to being unaware of? Even though he's a bad guy, even Magneto could have lifted it!

Bubble wrap for whom? The Dust Devil, Chuck Norris, or both? Get well, bro! Feel better, sooner than soon!

With the usual apologies for my New York City/big city mind-set, most of the larger hospitals have a separate area, complete to access doors and intake area, for General ER, Psychiatric, Pediatric, Trauma, Replant (for traumatic amputations), Burn, and other heavy duty specialties. Please note that I say "large", not necessarily "good". Kings County Hospital is large, and, usually, their ER and Trauma Centers are good. Psychiatric is actually in it's own building, the locally infamous "G" building. I say infamous, as the place has always had a bad reputation, possibly just because it IS a psychiatric facility. Bellevue Hospital has such, overall, despite it being the main Replant center for all 5 counties that make up New York City, because of it's past as one of the original psychiatric facilities in the city.

Not gonna be the case. Lawsuit is already in progress, per the news reports.

OK, this guy follows what is a saying by Mark Twain, I think, What is that structure they are dancing in front of, in Chicago/Chicagoland? Looks like the shark from Jaws is about to chomp down on all of them!