A Cautionary tale

No Comments Written by whizzbang on March 3, 2010 in Fun & Games.

First-year students at the University of Saskatchewan Vet School were receiving their first anatomy class, with a real dead cow. They all gathered around the surgery table with the body covered with a white sheet. The professor started the class by telling them,

‘ In Veterinary Medicine it is necessary to have two important qualities as a doctor: The first is that you not be disgusted by anything involving the animal body.’

For an example, the Professor pulled back the sheet, stuck his finger in the butt of the dead cow, withdrew it and stuck his finger in his mouth.

‘Go ahead and do the same thing,’ he told his students. The students freaked out, hesitated for several minutes, but eventually took turns sticking a finger in the anal opening of the dead cow and sucking on it. When everyone finished, the professor looked at them and said,

‘The second most important quality is observation. I stuck in my middle finger and sucked on my index
finger.’ ‘Now learn to pay attention. Life’s tough, it’s even tougher if you’re stupid.’


A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

No Comments Written by whizzbang on March 3, 2010 in books.

This week the Times is offering A Reliable Wife by Rober Goolrick for half-price with the paper. The Novel is a gothic tale of smoldering desire and is a real bodice ripper at times, which takes place in 1907 during a Wisconsin winter, and features a 58-year-old widower named Ralph Truitt, who is the wealthiest man in town, but inside he’s burning with the unsated desire of 20 solitary years. So he requisitions a Mail-Order Bride named Catherine through a classified ad, for practical not romantic reasons, however Ralph isn’t entirely what he seems.

When his bride Catherine finally does arrive, looking prim and dour, she isn’t what she appears to be, either – She threw her extravagant party dresses out the train window a few miles from town, and she has hidden jewels in the hem of her black wool dress. She’s not even the woman in the photo she sent Ralph during their summer of tentative correspondence. And she’s carrying a bottle of arsenic and a long and complicated scheme….