A question for Evil Force (page 3)

Englishman

Its English money prior to 1972. The price tag says 10 / 6 which translates to 10 shillings and sixpence, about $1.

I belive most hatters were mad, something to do with the arsenic that they used to stiffen the hat-brims.

Englishman.

ozziepost

Well, I've just got home (yep, Ozzie and Mrs Ozzie have a real life apart from JWD!) and saw the posts on this thread. These took my attention:

Junction-Guy started it when asking:

I have read in several of your posts that you are a doctor, what is your line of practice?

Evilforce answered:

I am a doctor of neurology with a clinical interest in: Multiple Sclerosis, neuropathy, movement disorders, dementia, and complex neurological patients

It wasn't until many posts later that Sith asked the obvious:

I have a question for Evil also. 27 posts per day. Many of them long, well thought out and well researched. An accomplished Doctor, and married to boot. How do you find the time?

Y'see i have a great familiarity with the medical field of neurology. I know the dedication of those who practice in that field. I know for sure the long hours involved in caring for their patients.

I find it disconcerting that a professed neurologist can spend so much time tapping away on a keyboard to entertain us on JWD.

This response by Evilforce concerns me:

You may all email me to my personal account at: [email protected] if you would prefer not to post your medical issues for all to see :) I don't mind the questions assuming you can be patient for any answers....it may take me 2 or 3 days to get back up with you.

How does this sit with someone who can spend so much time that he can make 232 posts this week?!!!

We downunder have an expression "Come off the grass!" Yep, only Richie Rich on school vacation can beat ya in posts!

The view from underneath the world seems upside down!

Cheers, Ozzie (Permanently upside-down class)

Its English money prior to 1972. The price tag says 10 / 6 which translates to 10 shillings and sixpence, about $1.

A gold star for the Englishman!!! Good job!

And the chat board turns on Evil....vicious biatches! LOL

If you look at many of my posts you will see that they are posted very late until the evening. I don't sleep much. Probably average 4 hours a night...sometimes as litte as 1 1/2 a night. I also am a type A personality....so I do everything at 120% or not at all. This board has been my recent obsession.....as has many other things in the past, as it well too shall pass. I'm also somewhat freer due to some clinical rotations going on right now that normally wouldn't allow me as much time as I have in the afternoons. My hubby handles all the I.T. issues at work....so I get to see him all day long. But we don't have kids....nuff said?

EvilForce

**"The Pyramidial Tracts are a complex of multi-synaptic upper motor neurons which interconnect the Basil-Ganglia with the Reticular Formation." **

Shoot! Another of our faults exposed. If your doc mumbles something about this as he's walking out of the room to get a consult, he usually has no idea WTF is going on with you but doesn't want to look clueless. You will usually hear these types of things from med school students if you are at a teaching hospital. You still will get a massive bill however....this is how the system works. LOL!

upside/down

I'm a stupid ass

Is that the opposite of a smart-ass?

u/d (of the not sure what kinda ass I am class)

minimus

Actually, Evil Force is gay and I think he likes to write imaginative stuff.

ozziepost

I gotta hand it to ya, Min, you've got a sense of humor!!

scotsman

Englishman, it was the use of mercury to flatten the fur that made them mad.

EvilForce

Good call Scots!

Felt hats were once very popular in North America and Europe; an example is the top hat. The best sorts were made from beaver fur, but cheaper ones used furs such as rabbit instead. A complicated set of processes was needed to turn the fur into a finished hat. With the cheaper sorts of fur, an early step was to brush a solution of a mercury compound—usually mercurous nitrate—on to the fur to roughen the fibres and make them mat more easily, a process called carroting because it made the fur turn orange. Beaver fur had natural serrated edges that made this unnecessary, one reason why it was preferred, but the cost and scarcity of beaver meant that other furs had to be used.
Whatever the source of the fur, the fibres were then shaved off the skin and turned into felt; this was later immersed in a boiling acid solution to thicken and harden it. Finishing processes included steaming the hat to shape and ironing it. In all these steps, hatters working in poorly ventilated workshops would breathe in the mercury compounds and accumulate the metal in their bodies.
We now know that mercury is a cumulative poison that causes kidney and brain damage. Physical symptoms include trembling (known at the time as hatter’s shakes), loosening of teeth, loss of co-ordination, and slurred speech; mental ones include irritability, loss of memory, depression, anxiety, and other personality changes. This was called mad hatter syndrome.

Sparkplug

ok, maybe I am wrong...but you all have to remember that perhaps Evil is like me and a sucker for punishment.

here is my list:

Single mother of 3 children (2 with extra curriculim activities and social lives) One of them is 4 years old...needs lots of attention. This also means that I do the shopping, planning budget...etc which make a full time job in itself.

I have my basketcase for a friend who is at my house 24 - 7 and always makes me party too hard, smoke too much...drink too much and stay out too late. I love her like no other.

Work a regular 40 hr a week job.

Work weekends and weeknights on photography. This makes for a total of two full time jobs.

Dedicate 10 to 30 hours a month to charity...some at work, some not.

Full time student. Holding an a/b average.

So I am thinking maybe the post, time schedules, the fact that he has a partner to help with the load, and makes money enough to not have to work like a dog....no dependents...could possibly make his schedule a walk in the park compared to mine. We might should not bash someone who makes me laugh so hard.

Hell he could be a washed up, nose picking, wife beater wearing, redneck member of the KKK, living in his inherited trailer in deep woods Alabama and at this point, maybe I would not want to sleep with him....but I think I would like his inner child. (and I am half black) He seems kewl to my technilogical and internet challenged behind!

Surely because most of us spend far too much time on the board.......... does not mean that EVIL does not have a valid and is telling the truth about his life. Lets all love one another and bow our heads in a prayer of forgiveness from the LORD JEE HOBAH.

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