Friday, October 5, 2018

Ear

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6 comments:

M. Mitchell Marmel said...

"Eye drops." "What happens after a leper sneezes HARD."

(Thanks for a much needed laugh this morning.)

Kent Whitehead said...

"The ball drops" when a leper sneezes on New Year's Eve.

Bruce Bleu said...

I thought is was called "Dropsy".

TrickyRicky said...

I was going to go through all the old leprosy jokes...but why bother. I think I'll just go out to the hot tub and heat up the soup.

John Robert Mallernee, KB3KWS, in Vernal, Utah said...

One of the saddest things I've ever seen was in 1969, as a group of lepers surrounded me, piteously begging, as I was entering a Buddhist temple in Cholon, the Chinese section of Saigon, in the old Republic of Viet Nam.

(During my entire two years in Viet Nam, the ONLY kitten I ever saw, was inside that Buddhist temple!)

These lepers did indeed have gaping, infected wounds on their faces where noses, mouths, and eye sockets used to be, and/or hands with missing digits, and/or even missing limbs, all bloody, and all in filthy rags.

The mere sight of such wounds would turn a man's stomach.

And with so many desperately needy lepers, how could I choose who I would give my few piasters to, and who I would ignore, for as a low ranking enlisted soldier in the United States Army, I had little that I could give them?

Each day, in our mess hall, we were given two little white tablets, allegedly to prevent leprosy.

Each Monday morning, we were given a large, pink tablet to prevent malaria.

A few months later, we were no longer issued the little white tablets, as they caused cancer (or so I was told).

Stilton Jarlsberg said...

@M. Mitchell Marmel - Hey, your punchline works as well as mine!

@Kent Whitehead- You've just raised the bar. Excellent!

@Bruce Bleu- I need to start stealing these punchlines.

@TrickyRicky- Don't forget the noodles!

@John Robert Mallernee- Yikes, that's a very sobering story. Leprosy is a nightmarish disease, albeit one that is now treatable in most parts of the world. I can't imagine what was in those two white tablets they had you taking...or how you felt when you found out why they were being discontinued!