On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:43:29 -0400, "Charles Wm. Dimmick"
<cdimmick@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>D.F. Manno wrote:
>> In article
>> <7cff285c-9209-4c9b-86ce-79ba6ca06533@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> "artyw2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <artyw2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> On Apr 29, 11:24 pm, "D.F. Manno" <dfma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> As I write this there are seventeen patients on the unit, five of
whom
>>>> are in wheelchairs. As a result, the unit is unusually labile,
because
>>>> the patients and staff are stuffed into a space that would look roomy
to
>>>> calves destined to be veal chops.
>>> "labile" is a word that doesn't seem to be used very much except
>>> (1) by biochemists talking about proteins ( or other compounds) that
>>> tend to stop working when heated up or jostled a bit.
>>> (2) in reference to people who are "emotionally labile"
>>> is this a word you commonly use?
>> On a psych ward, yes.
>I've lost track of where this place is. You mention the Schuylkill.
>About a hundred years ago one of my great-grandfathers was
>superintendent of a facility near the Schuylkill, not too far
>from Pottsville. Probably no relation.
Well, he was your great-grandfather.
Les
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