Re: NASA paying people to lie in bed

On Sat, 10 May 2008 23:00:48 -0500, QueBarbara wrote:

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>On Sun, 11 May 2008 03:36:09 GMT, "Lesmond" <lesmond@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>On Fri, 09 May 2008 20:19:31 -0700, Bill Turlock wrote:
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>>>Hactar wrote:
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>>>> After 5-6 months being bedbound, my BP regulatory system was shot, so
>>>> they had to ease me back into being vertical.  I suppose it didn't
help
>>>> that my BP was always low.  Last time I went to the dentist, it was
>>>> 118/74.  I'm practically dead...
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>>>Hah! Girl who used to work in my office was regularly 90/60. She
>>>was in good health, and slightly overweight. She was short, too,
>>>so along with being chubby, it was curious to see her driving
>>>with one foot out the driver's side window. Incredibly limber.
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>>Automatic transmission.  Yeah, I used to be able to do that.
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>I'm a little baffled, because I'm didn't think of myself as especially
>limber, but in the summer it wasn't uncommon to find me or my
>girlfriends driving like that. 

I'm not the one who claimed limberness as a prerequisite.  It was quite
simple.  Not so much now, though.  So I guess some limberness is required.

Or to ride as a passenger and have one
>leg out the passenger's side window. I seem to remember that if you
>were riding in a pickup truck or a convertible in the summer, it was
>virtually mandatory to have one leg or the other, if not both,
>sticking out the window.

Of course!

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>Now, if you were driving and had one foot out of the passenger side
>window . . . well, I didn't know any of those sorts of girls.

And I don't think I want to, either.

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