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In article <694382bf.0309121048.1fa98402@posting.google.com>,
passionforfrench@yahoo.com (Shorty Blackwell) writes:

I'm not sure that is anything that needs checking in most of the population,
but I have another of my Amazing Stories to tell on this one, and I know the
people personally.

My son's friend's dad was in the hospital. I think he'd been in a car wreck
and broken his ankle - something relatively simple, as I recall. Well I don't
remember what was wrong with him now because it was about 15 years ago and he
used to have seizures driving and wreck cars ALL the time.

Anyway, his wife was visiting him, holding his hand, and she says that he just
turned white as a sheet in an instant. One instant he was fine, the next
minute he looked like he had dropped all the blood in his body.
Luckily, the nurse was in the room doing vitals at that time.

The best vascular surgeon I've ever known was right outside in the hall, had
pushed the elevator button to leave the hospital. They caught him and he had
this opened up before you could say Jack Robinson, right there at the bedside.
Saved his life right then and there.

The guy lived for a long time more and just died a couple of years ago from
something unrelated, maybe even a car wreck, I'm not sure.


Becky Young

raemorrill

The best vascular surgeon I've ever known was right outside in the hall, had
pushed the elevator button to leave the hospital. They caught him and he had
this opened up before you could say Jack Robinson, right there at the bedside.
Saved his life right then and there. >>

Wow, things sure went his way that day!


Rae Morrill in Maine
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julie villani

Hi all,

I just read this in today's Melbourne newspaper....so sad....really liked
John Ritter and only recently saw him on "The View". Too young and so
unexpected. Really gave me a shock.

Also saw that Johnny Cash died.

Seems so many celebs have passed away the last couple of years.

JulieFromOz (ozgal)

juliew8

I didn't even realize until reading the news piece that his parents
were in entertainment.

14tonks

Unfortunately, people probably get the celebrities as well as the government
they deserve. There was a time when it would have been the kiss of death
for it to be known that a celebrity had engaged in antisocial behavior. Now
it seems to have no negative effect whatever on their careers, or even to
have a positive effect with many of their fans. I'm sure if the public at
large boycotted the bad examples, their million-dollar deals would quickly
dry up.

And not to take anything away from those athletes and performers who
enlisted in World War II, but there was strong social pressure on them to do
so. My father spent the war doing classified research, and had lots of
stories of the flack he received traveling during that time, as an obviously
able-bodied young man out of uniform.
--
&%) Sheila
To reply to me, you must add the prefix real. to my address.

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In article <vm5gg2s8eai6b3@corp.supernews.com>, "Eliyahu Rooff"
<lrooff@hotmail.com> writes:


When we were in Nashville last summer going to see DIL's brother play, one of
the guys there told us that he would never make a year. He said that he was
surprised that he was still alive then (May or June I think).


Becky Young

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In article <bjuu39$n3vt3$1@ID-173555.news.uni-berlin.de>, "14tonks"
<mail.2.14tonks@recursor.net> writes:


There's a really funny song about this - it goes on about no matter what law he
breaks he's going to get community service. I can't remember all the words to
it but it's pretty funny - and more than a little true!


Becky Young

barb beier

Well, I didn't know too much about Tex Ritter other than his singing
that unforgettable theme song for the movie "High Noon" and some
half-remembered singing-cowboy songs my parents used to listen to on
the radio when I was very young, but I just looked him up on the Net.
Quite a remarkable man. Interestingly, John's father also died very
quickly and unexpectedly from a heart problem.

http://www.birthplaceofcountrymusic....s/ritter_t.htm

Maybe the Ritter family and Johnny Cash aren't quite the opposites
they first might seem. If Cash's voice could be compared to Jack
Daniels, Tex Ritter's was 13-year-old Old Charter Proprietor's Reserve
Kentucky bourbon.

Barb

edward gmys

OTOH, do we need more Joan Crawford's, Bing Crosby's, or Desi Arnaz's?

I don't think it is *more* commonplace for celebs and athletes to misbehave,
as much as it is just more readily available in the news!

Ed

edward gmys

There is nothing wrong with expecting higher standards,
good luck trying to find it. If you think Bush is any more
"moral" then you are sadly mistaken!

Ed