Polite Dissent

April brought the usual searches for Bwana Beast, Jabberjaw, Hawk and Dove, Wormy, Zatanna and Kim Possible (in various states of dress and undress).

As always, there were also searches by people looking for some specific information. I always wonder how they end up here. Still, I’ll do my best to help:

The voice of Ron Stoppable
Will Friedle

How tall is the Eiffel Tower in France?
324 meters (counting the flagpole)

Stories about nasogastric tube and foley catheter
I don’t have any good nasogastic stories, but I have a doozy of foley catheter story.

Most psychics have rhesus negative type blood
This would be as true as the fact that most Tooth Fairies have Rh-negative blood.

reading cat
I have two

Dr. Chase kidney & liver pills
A common patent medicine from 150 years ago. Here’s one recipe from Dr. Chase’s Recipes, published in 1866*:

Aloes and gamboge, of each 1 oz.; mandrake and blood-root, with gum myrrh, of each 1/4 oz.; gum camphor and cayenne, of each 1-1/2 drs.; ginger, 4 oz.; all finely pulverized and thoroughly mixed, with thick mucilage (made by putting a little water upon equal quantities of gum arabic and gum tragacanth) into pill mass; then formed into common sized pills. Dose: Two to four pills, according to the robustness of the patient.

Star Trek quote of many outweigh

Spock: If I may be so bold, it was a mistake for you to accept promotion. Commanding a starship is your first, best destiny; anything else is a waste of material.
Kirk: I would not presume to debate you.
Spock: That is wise. Were I to invoke logic, however, logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
Kirk: Or the one.
Spock: You are my superior officer. You are also my friend. I have been and always shall be yours.

Proper hand position steering wheel
10 o’clock and 2 o’clock

Bicillin shot in butt
That’s where they go.

Jungian analysis of the Wizard of Oz
I’d check over at Eric’s website.

Clark Kent’s identity Superman
Shhh! Don’t let anyone else know!

Homeopathic medicine for pink eye
Given that homeopathic medicine is no better than water (in fact, it is water), it would be just as effective (and cheaper) to use water*.

Names of the original Globetrotters
Inman Jackson, Lester Johnson, Walter Wright

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*Scott and Polite Dissent do not recommend nor endorse the use of any medications that have not been proven effective by modern science.

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