great song

who did? i must find this mp3!

on a different, extremely annoying note, i know have that awful “shiny disco balls” song stuck in my head. oy.

Say everybody have you seen my balls they’re big and salty and brown. If you ever need a quick pick me up just stick my balls in your mouth. Oooo suck on my chocolate salted balls stick em in your mouth, and suck em! Suck on my chocolate salted balls, they’re packed full of vitamins, and good for you. So suck on my balls.

(of course they had to change it for the American audience and make them chocolate)

Nina..I am from Trivandrum. I had a friend whose father used to own mango orchards. He assures me that mango bars are made out of fruit that are irredeemably lost. Cant sell it retail and therefore made into gummy paste…..

I still can’t figure out if he was having me…I stopped eating the mago bars since then…:-)

You must not have read Grimus or Fury then

Shalimar is better than many of his others, e.g. Shame. I wouldn’t rank it with The Moor’s Last Sigh, Midnight’s Children or The Ground Beneath Her Feet; maybe with The Satanic Verses. But you’re really splitting hairs in that company.

You mean Shalimar? His worst ! But then he has not given up writing, so there is always hope.

Start enjoying Nailpaul instead. How Freudian

Then his daughter, 46, grabbed a vacuum cleaner, took out the man’s dentures, and stuck the hose into his mouth with the switch turned to “high.” The gooey, white mass slowly emerged…

More ad hoc medical procedures:

I have heard that another technique for choking on the windpipe would be to use a ball point pen and puncture the neck just above the windpipe and use the pen shaft (minus the ink cartridge) to allow air into the windpipe until the paramedics can arrive.

Response:

Before doing that, you should be dead sure (sorry, bad choice of words?) of your surface anatomy landmarks — there are a number of vital structures in the neck…

What you’re suggesting would work if the obstruction (the piece of mochi) were stuck above the site of puncture…

Yikes! Is that true… or just another fakeout perpetrated on Wikipedia.