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Re: simplicity (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Thanks Brian! Your eloquence is, as always, much appreciated! (Especially when you say "Gollum"!! :-P)
Cheers,
CaptainD
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May 12 '04
12:03 pm PDT
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simplicity (Reply to this comment)
by voxpoptart
It looks like nobody else has popped by to say "Wow, this was bloody brilliant!" all morning, so i will. Wow, Dave: this was bloody brilliant.
cheers,
- Brian
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May 12 '04
7:43 am PDT
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Re: bravo (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Thanks Chris! I take that as very high praise indeed from as talented a writer as yourself. :-D
CaptainD
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May 11 '04
2:30 pm PDT
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Re: Thinking of Jane (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Thanks Becky!
(I swear it was a coincidence....)
CaptainD
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May 11 '04
2:30 pm PDT
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Re: A Wish to Jane: (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Jane thanks you for your kind wishes, but cannot reply personally because she is on vacation in Kuala Lumpur taming a Yak.
CaptainD
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May 11 '04
2:29 pm PDT
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bravo (Reply to this comment)
by ChrisJarmick
Complex non-poetic subject made completely entertaining and you dared to rhyme!!!
Superb AND INSPIRED !!!.
Chris J.
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May 11 '04
9:24 am PDT
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Thinking of Jane (Reply to this comment)
by beckytcy
Dave,
This is a wonderful poem and well-deserving of a prize. My mom is also called Jane.
Cheers,
Becky
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May 11 '04
6:41 am PDT
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A Wish to Jane: (Reply to this comment)
by DAnneC
Health and full recovery.
DAnneC
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May 10 '04
7:06 pm PDT
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Re: I think it's an excellent poem! (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Thanks Telynor!
"it does life the spirit" - er... lift the spirit? BTW everyone who worked in the orthopaedic oncology office was completely barmy - I thnk it's the only way you can cope! I now work in histopatholoy at a women's hospital - much of the work is typing up post mortems for pre and neo-natal (I think you guys in the States use the term "partum" instead of natal?) deaths - and they're just as barmy. If you took it all to heart I think you just couldn't cope.
CaptainD
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May 08 '04
3:13 pm PDT
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I think it's an excellent poem! (Reply to this comment)
by telynor
And as someone who's been through this sort of thing, I love and apprieciate your touch of humor -- it does life the spirit! -- Telynor
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May 08 '04
2:38 pm PDT
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Re: This rang some bells . . . (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Hey Ed!
Thanks for the kind words and I'm glad you're still around to tell the tale!
CaptainD
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May 08 '04
8:54 am PDT
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Re: This rang some bells . . . (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Hey Ed!
Thanks for the kind words and I'm glad you're still around to tell the tale!
CaptainD
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May 08 '04
8:54 am PDT
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This rang some bells . . . (Reply to this comment)
by ed_grover
I can see why you won a prize because I could relate very well to the sequence of events. I went through somewhat the same procedure of memos an d letters with oral cancer in 1979-80 but mine was radiation therapy. Nice job.
Ed
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May 08 '04
7:47 am PDT
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Re: Whoa... (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Hi Tanu!
"...at first I was thinking, huh what the heck is this.. BRILLIANT PIECE OF UTTER GENIUS!!?? " - Um... thanks.. I think? :-P That was a compliment, right?
"See, now I know why I added you to my spider web of trust." - I'm glad you know, I wouldn't trust me... :-O - hehe, spider web - nice description!
"Can you really develop a sarcoma on a synovium?"? - er, are you being ironic? Anyway, some definitions might help...
Definitions:
Synovial
"\Syn*o"vi*al\, a. [Cf. F. synovial.] (Anat.)
Of or pertaining to synovia; secreting synovia.
{Synovial capsule}, a closed sac of synovial membrane situated between the articular surfaces at diarthrodial joints.
{Synovial fluid}, synovia.
{Synovial membrane}, the dense and very smooth connective tissue membrane which secretes synovia and surrounds synovial capsules and other synovial cavities."
Synovial Sarcoma
"A highly malignant soft tissue tumor arising in the vicinity of a joint. It is characterized by a biphasic microscopic pattern with intermixed atypical spindle cells and nests of epithelial cells with cleft-like spaces."
So as far as I can make out, a synovial sarcoma would be a neoplasm attached to the synovial lining of a joint space. I'm probably slightly off with that definition but it'll do for now. Anyway, it's a high-grade malignant tumour and you don't want one!!. That's whatI definitely know.
CaptainTerminologicalInexactitudes
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May 07 '04
9:40 am PDT
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Re: Congrats Dave!!! (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Thanks Wendy! :-)
CaptainBlusher
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May 07 '04
9:32 am PDT
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Re: A prize? (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Haggis: If you provide the music, I'll split the megabucks it would earn us in roylaties exactly down the midddle - I'll take whatever's on the left of the decimal point, and all the rest is yours. :-O
CaptainD
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May 07 '04
9:31 am PDT
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Whoa... (Reply to this comment)
by tanu
...at first I was thinking, huh what the heck is this.. BRILLIANT PIECE OF UTTER GENIUS!!??
Very intriguing piece. See, now I know why I added you to my spider web of trust.
Can you really develop a sarcoma on a synovium?
Tanu
(gluteuously maximizing in front of computer)
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May 07 '04
12:28 am PDT
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Congrats Dave!!! (Reply to this comment)
by wifeofvolsfan
I am so proud for you. Great job!
Wendy :-)
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May 06 '04
8:00 pm PDT
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A prize? (Reply to this comment)
by _haggis_
You won a prize with this? Why, you didn't even put it to music. Needs a snappy tune, eh? Some four part harmony wouldn't hurt either. Write some music to go along with it and advise me via email. I'll take another look at it then and possibly upgrade my rating.
Haggis
Oh. Never mind. I already gave it a VH. Carry on.
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May 06 '04
7:39 pm PDT
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