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OK - today I do that deed (having been fully "prepped") by submitting myself to the whims of a gastroenterologist. I need some advice due to the following observations:
He wears a pith helmet[^] during procedures
There were the heads of several gerbils stuffed and mounted on his wall
I have the feeling he sees his job as gerbil-hunting and am afraid what will happen if he's disappointed.
Special Note to Chris M: I just thought up an enhancement for the "Type" category for here, in the Lounge. The "Too Much Information" selection, along with an appropriate icon of warning.
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Bring a samurai sword and insist on remaining awake during the procedure.
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you actually can stay awake for the procedure. However you will then feel most of the procedure. Depends upon your comfort level with said procedures process. Which would explain the gerbil heads on the walls. HAHAHAHA.
Be prepared to toot your horn for a few days with all the extra air they use to expand the region so they have a better excursion.
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I remember, in the recovery room six years ago, producing such a blast as to have easily taken down the Walls of Jericho. Strangely odorless. And then it was done.
Many years ago I experienced this without anesthetic. There's an expression used when one has eaten a lot whereby they exclaim "I could bust". That feeling can be real. A definite once-is-too-many experience.
Before long I'll know my weight sans any digestive content. This allows two interesting observations:
- I can actually time the duration of digestion for that first meal afterwards
- At any given moment I can weigh myself and know precisely "Just How Full of It" I am.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: I remember, in the recovery room six years ago, producing such a blast as to have easily taken down the Walls of Jericho. Strangely odorless.
They use air to inflate the bowels so they can see more. You're "prepped", so your intestines nearly empty, not much there that can generate smells.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Many years ago I experienced this without anesthetic
Ditto. They also extracted 12 small pieces to test, by grabbing the instestines with a hook and simply pulling that part out.
Nowadays, before the procedure begins, I get a sedative, a painkiller, a sleep-aid and get strapped to the bed. Legs and hands.
As for the prep; it used to be a small sip of magnesium done easily, and it changed to 2 liters of salt water. The price difference is small, but on a large amount it adds up.
Hope that the results are at least good.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: small sip of magnesium
Drinking molten metals? They really wanted you cleaned out.
They took three trophies for analysis. Probably a week before I know.
He also said he found a hemorrhoid - thank goodness I'm not a perfect a**hole.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Drinking molten metals? They really wanted you cleaned out.
Magnesium sulfite, IIRC; not a metal, but a "salt". Is not a salt in my kitchen.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: They took three trophies for analysis. Probably a week before I know.
If something serious, you be told within a day. I'm "checked" every year. Just glad I'm a developer, not an arse-looking doctor. Imagine doing eight of those each day.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: He also said he found a hemorrhoid - thank goodness I'm not a perfect a**hole.
He *found* one? Meaning you didn't even notice if there? They can get rid of those easily, although you do a Monthy Python walk for a day.
Have something good to eat.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Well, you said drink magnesium and, since it's a metal, I presumed they melted it so it could be quaffed. MgSO4, commonly called Epsom Salts, is quite different. Eddy Vluggen wrote: Just glad I'm a developer, not an arse-looking doctor. Imagine doing eight of those each day.
In order to relieve the work pressure (a pun?) these guys often have another office next door where they practice dentistry. There is a certain danger if they get confused.Eddy Vluggen wrote: Meaning you didn't even notice if there?
Internal (sneaky little critter). Current recommended treatment: leave it alone.
And all readers will be thankful to know that no gerbils or ferrets were injured during the procedure.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Well, you said drink magnesium and, since it's a metal, I presumed they melted it so it could be quaffed. MgSO4, commonly called Epsom Salts, is quite different.
They didn't call it Epsom salt, but magnesium-something. Tasted like lemons, but only required one swallow. Compare that to some liters of seawater.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: these guys often have another office next door where they practice dentistry. There is a certain danger if they get confused.
Dentists; I often joked at both practices how the denstist digs in more bacteria and has a dirtier job than the one doing hemmoroids.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: And all readers will be thankful to know that no gerbils or ferrets were injured during the procedure.
Gerbils can't survive in a colon, despite the claims on Google. They'd suffocate while biting a way out. Both Gerbil and host would be dead in minutes.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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Epsom Salts = Magnesium Sulfate.
My "stuff" was about 70% Sodium Sulfate and 15% each of Potassium Sulfate and Magnesium Sulfate.
Being an ingredients reader since I learned to read, I looked at the other contents - which included a lemon flavoring and sweetener. I suppose it was more palatable. Just not possible to drink it quickly enough as it seems to fill the mouth, throat, and all, very quickly. Anyway, your stuff tasted like lemon because the lemon'ed it for you.
There really important thing about dentists and proctologists is to never mix up their office locations when in need of their services.
You are mistaken as the gerbils in question were hatched in-situ.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Epsom Salts = Magnesium Sulfate.
As a normal human, salt goes on eggs.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: My "stuff" was about 70% Sodium Sulfate and 15% each of Potassium Sulfate and Magnesium Sulfate.
Better than two liters of salt water.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: There really important thing about dentists and proctologists is to never mix up their office locations
There's more bacteria in your mouth than on the other end.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: You are mistaken as the gerbils in question were hatched in-situ
..hatching happens from eggs, gerbils are mammals. In situ, so there was already a colony there?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
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Ah ha. Gotcha !
All my previous replies were a Turing Test.
Based upon your answers, I'm afraid you failed.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: He wears a pith helmet[^] during procedures
This is very, very, very odd.
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No . . . . THIS [^] is very very odd.
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Be sure you pay the extra fee for the sterilized probe.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Thwarted, derated with a filler for cone slice (7)
See if you can beat the birthday boy, guys!
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Really not sure, but ... I'll give it a try:
Thwarted, EL SE
derated with a filler LIP for cone slice
ELLIPSE
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No, but Happy Birthday anyway!
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Thank you!
I'm pretty glad about that ... I didn't like the solution at all! 
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I think it might be eclipse Paul
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I'm not big enough to cause an Eclipse.
Honest.
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Thwarted, derated with a filler for cone slice (7)
Thwarted = frustrated
Thwarted, derated = frust
with a filler = um (space filler in conversation) Frustum[^]
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Absolutely correct! You're up tomorrow.
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Well,
I guess this one was for me. I spent all last evening before bed playing with gauge symmetry transformations and various projections of the Gosset polytope. Nothing related to work... I am just trying to figure out how our universe might work.
I was quite surprised to see a geometry related CCC this morning. I solved it as ellipse just like @OriginalGriff but decided to not post the answer. When you told him it was wrong I took a closer look.
It's super wierd to see a CCC related to something I was doing right before bed. 
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
edit ^ ellipse not eclipse
modified 24-Feb-21 6:34am.
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Randor wrote: figure out how our universe might work
Because you observed it does?
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