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ORIGINAL: Art

It's the water cooler thread, right?
I flew down to New Orleans for the weekend and had a couple dozen oysters at the Acme Oyster House.
Went straight to the airport and flew home.
Near the end of the flight I was feeling a little queasy.
I had band practice that evening and took the Train to the Plane to Manhattan from JFK.
A couple of guys met me at 42nd Street and we took the D train together.
A lot of it is a blur after that but in a nutshell I started writhing in agony and laid down across a few seats on the train.
A cop comes in ... billy clubs the bottom of my feet and tells me to get up.
My two friends are telling him I'm sick etc...
He lifts me up and when the doors open throws me off the train.
Can't remember the stop but at that point I hobbled to the mens room.
No seat (not seat cover, no seat) on the toilet.
I splashed my ass down on it and sat there for 20 minutes until the ambulance arrived (my friends had called).
Took me to the hospital where tests revealed I had ingested a bacteria native to only New Orleans and Louisiana.
Took them a day to get the right anti-biotic in me via IV.
Felt better 24 hours later.

I have never eaten an oyster since.

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ORIGINAL: bohumm

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ORIGINAL: Art

Yeah. Try having an intestinal malfunction brought on by food poisoning in a NYC subway men's room.

That's why I never eat in NYC subway restrooms

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ORIGINAL: hagar

Rob Lowe's shy bladder commercial. Funny or bad taste?

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ORIGINAL: Mark Anderson

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ORIGINAL: hagar

Rob Lowe's shy bladder commercial. Funny or bad taste?

Hilarious. Best one of the 3 different ones I have seen.

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ORIGINAL: bohumm

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ORIGINAL: Art

Yeah. Try having an intestinal malfunction brought on by food poisoning in a NYC subway men's room.

That's why I never eat in NYC subway restrooms

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ORIGINAL: hagar

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ORIGINAL: Mark Anderson

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ORIGINAL: hagar

Rob Lowe's shy bladder commercial. Funny or bad taste?

Hilarious. Best one of the 3 different ones I have seen.

I haven't seen any of them because I always skip through the commercials. Since I read that people are complaining about them I have to find them now.

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ORIGINAL: thebigo

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ORIGINAL: hagar

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ORIGINAL: Mark Anderson

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ORIGINAL: hagar

Rob Lowe's shy bladder commercial. Funny or bad taste?

Hilarious. Best one of the 3 different ones I have seen.

I haven't seen any of them because I always skip through the commercials. Since I read that people are complaining about them I have to find them now.

There's a 5000 man shy bladder protest scheduled in front of Lowe's house.

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ORIGINAL: Art
Took me to the hospital where tests revealed I had ingested a bacteria native to only New Orleans and Louisiana.

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ORIGINAL: Lynn G.

Merry Festivus, Happy Hannukkah, Happy Kawzaa and Merry Christmas to everyone here at Talk Vikes. May the New Year bring nothing but happiness, including championships for the Vikings, Twins, Wild and Timberwolves. Oh, and all of the Gopher teams and anyone but Eden Prairie for high school football. [sm=beer.gif]

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ORIGINAL: bohumm

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ORIGINAL: Lynn G.

Merry Festivus, Happy Hannukkah, Happy Kawzaa and Merry Christmas to everyone here at Talk Vikes. May the New Year bring nothing but happiness, including championships for the Vikings, Twins, Wild and Timberwolves. Oh, and all of the Gopher teams and anyone but Eden Prairie for high school football. [sm=beer.gif]

How is that my humble alma mater has become the Edina of this era? Eden Prairie was where Edina mom's moved after the divorce. Now it's unrecognizable

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ORIGINAL: Lynn G.

Oops - nothing personal bohumm. It's just that it's tiresome to see the same team, which comes from a school of 800 per grade level and thus has the decks all neatly stacked in their favor, win every year. I actually went to high school with their head coach (and had a goofy crush on him at the time), but they've had way more than their share of wins. It's someone else's turn. [:D]

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ORIGINAL: bohumm

No offense whatsoever. I really feel no connection to Eden Prairie now. I would probably feel the same way you do if I wasn't from there.

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ORIGINAL: thebigo

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ORIGINAL: Lynn G.

Oops - nothing personal bohumm. It's just that it's tiresome to see the same team, which comes from a school of 800 per grade level and thus has the decks all neatly stacked in their favor, win every year. I actually went to high school with their head coach (and had a goofy crush on him at the time), but they've had way more than their share of wins. It's someone else's turn. [:D]

You had a crush on Bud Grant's son?

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ORIGINAL: Ricky J

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ORIGINAL: bohumm

No offense whatsoever. I really feel no connection to Eden Prairie now. I would probably feel the same way you do if I wasn't from there.

I just can't wrap my head around 800 per grade level. How do you do pull that off? Is it nuts?

I've lived in a town with less than 800 people.

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ORIGINAL: Lynn G.

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ORIGINAL: bohumm

No offense whatsoever. I really feel no connection to Eden Prairie now. I would probably feel the same way you do if I wasn't from there.

I just can't wrap my head around 800 per grade level. How do you do pull that off? Is it nuts?

I've lived in a town with less than 800 people.

It's crazy. And they made the executive decision to never split into two or more high schools because they would lose that competitive edge in sports. I may have made up the reason they won't split, but that's the result.

The bad news is that the teams are all comprised of the cream of a very large crop, but it means that all of the other kids, many of whom may be very good players, never have a chance to make the team. Same goes for drama club, choir, band, etc. The school is just too dang big.