Off Topic!, For all our "general" off topic tendencies Options

[rowenaaine]

My bad. I wasn't considering the "off-duty" restrictions on the license. EMS laws vary from state to state as far as how much we can do while not under active medical control, and it's pretty free where I live - encouraged, even.

Per a recommendation from a fellow board member, I moved all the RN-related comments into Off-topic on the off chance that someone will read the link to the ratings thread that I provided. Don't want them to give up after reading a couple of OT posts (that are interesting to us, but not them LOL).

[naydi]

Per a recommendation from a fellow board member, I moved all the RN-related comments into Off-topic on the off chance that someone will read the link to the ratings thread that I provided. Don't want them to give up after reading a couple of OT posts (that are interesting to us, but not them LOL).

Actually - as a suggestion, you can put them in the "Congratulations" thread(?)... The RN ones asked for specifically and/or info blurbs just thrown out here are kind of woven into the Off Topic flow as this point -the latter slowing things down a bit for a day or so- these, being so specific, kind of slow it down again, too... Do you think?

[floridaRN]

Anna Nicole Smith just died. She was found unresponsive in her hotel room in Hollywood Florida at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. They did CPR and intubated her in the field but she was pronounced at the hospital.

They already did an episode on her and the death of her son on Original recipe. I hope they leave this one alone.

[naydi]

Anna Nicole Smith just died. She was found unresponsive in her hotel room in Hollywood Florida at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. They did CPR and intubated her in the field but she was pronounced at the hospital.

They already did an episode on her and the death of her son on Original recipe. I hope they leave this one alone.

REALLY????!!!!! Oh my God!!!!??? *one of the women at work just went through the office with the news, too* She was one sad, saaaaad figure of a woman, but I'm just shaking my head right now. The thought of her ending up dead so young never entered my mind.... No matter how it happened, unless it turns out that there was some unknown congenital thing going on, it'll all add up to suicide for me; be it either the slow one she's been committing all these years or a fast one she planned for today...

[alliehalliwell]

Anna Nicole Smith just died. She was found unresponsive in her hotel room in Hollywood Florida at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. They did CPR and intubated her in the field but she was pronounced at the hospital.

They already did an episode on her and the death of her son on Original recipe. I hope they leave this one alone.

I hope CI skips this plotline when thinking of things to write.

...Anna did drugs b/4 didn't she? Maybe she had a heart attack.

I haven't heard what'll happen to her baby? Does she have other family? The poor thing...

[Not_saying]

From what i've heard she had a fever last night .and she did have pnemonia she I do'nt think ever really recovered from that plus the devastating los of her son .

along with all the sh*** legal crap she's had to endure cus that guy.
I think it may have just overwhelmed her body and soul to the point this happened.

I personally hope the baby stays with her companion he seems like a very lovely and caring man and I honestly feel that the only reason she was still here as long as she was was him he was her rock .

and i do'nt know if she has any other family .

just terrible what has happened.shockingly sad !

May she rest in piece now in the arms of her son ..
and May she and danny watch over dannilyn .


I have a terrible feeling that her companion is about to have his hands full .

I was channel surfing when I caught it .

terribly terribly saddened .

[Not_saying]

also I do hope too they skip this story .

it would be unclassy to do the story line

[CvlSrvnt]

I'm betting it was cardiac, with the drugs and the weight loss stuff contributing.

I agree they should leave this one alone, though. Too boring and too tawdry for CI.

[jordanriver]

OH GOD PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE NBC, DO NOT DO THIS STORY!!!!!!!

[CvlSrvnt]

Some friends of mine have a song that would be perfect for Goren this season (as well as for the majority of us at least some of the time):
The Young Dubliners - What Do You Want From Me? (live)
It's not the greatest recording, but it is a good song.

Lyrics (c Roberts/Woolford/BMI)

There's a clearin' in the rain/I hope it never rains again/
'Cause everything I care about has gotten wet inside and out/
I'm in pain again.

So if you see me on the street/and you're thinking we should meet/
It's better that you stand well clear, there's nothing that I want to hear/
That you might say.

I'm looking for that ray of sunshine/put a smile upon my face/
Instead of all this tension I can taste.

(Chorus):
Whoooooooah! What do you want from me?
Whoooooooah! What do you want from me?
Whoooooooah! What do you want from me?
Whoooooooah! What do you want from me?

Well get that look off your face/gimme back my space/
It's better that I run for home, I'm happier when I'm alone/
I'm in pain again.

It's not your spoken word I crave/(your) advice would send me to the grave/
Sorry that I think aloud, I'm trying to rise above the crowd/
That's in my brain.

I'm looking for that ray of sunshine/put a smile upon my face/
Instead of all this tension I can taste.

(Chorus):
Whoooooooah! What do you want from me?
Whoooooooah! What do you want from me?
Whoooooooah! What do you want from me?
Whoooooooah! What do you want from me?

[peachybc]

Love it Cvl!!!

[peachybc]

An astronomy picture that I hope will lift everyone's spirts.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070130.html

PeachyBC

[CIlover2]

I hope CI skips this plotline when thinking of things to write.

...Anna did drugs b/4 didn't she? Maybe she had a heart attack.

I haven't heard what'll happen to her baby? Does she have other family? The poor thing...

thats funny, i was just thinking about that yesterday. i think it might be a good plot line just because of all the things i have heard about anna nicole. i thnk they shouldnt make it obvious at all (maybe do it it a couple of years) that it was about anna nicole, but i think all of the complications with her life would make it an exelent episode.

that picture is so amazing. its so pretty... mmm pretty colors.

[naydi]

....It looks like God is giving birth!

That's just beautiful!!


EDIT: wait a minute - where's vurt?

EDIT II: Don't want to take up another post space (get kind of uncomfortable sometimes having my name at the top over and over), so: LOL, Peachy!!!!!

(ya'll will see what I mean in the next post...)

[CvlSrvnt]

EDIT: wait a minute - where's vurt?

I haven't seen her in a while. Do you know who had her last? Maybe they remember where they put her.

[naydi]

I haven't seen her in a while. Do you know who had her last? Maybe they remember where they put her.

(just when I held myself back from making another post by doing a back-edit instead....) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jordanriver]

I haven't seen her in a while. Do you know who had her last? Maybe they remember where they put her.

Just wanted to pop in. Off to finish cleaning my dorm room (much more upkeep now that my roommate is gone from me ) and then I must get ready to go to a play (The Country Wife) with some friends from my acting class. Only thing that sucks is I gotta miss the Mothership L&O tonight. It looks like SUCH a good eppy tonight. I'm gonna try to buy a VCR from RadioShack before I leave to record it (Do they even sell VCRs anymore? ).

[DonnaLucy]

Jordan, Radio Shack sells VCR/DVD combinations.

Turned on my television just in time to hear "Chocolate Jimmy" in Stress Position utter the phrase, "I'm no Anna Nicole. I don't like to be made a spectacle of."

Weird they are showing this ep today, isn't it?

[jordanriver]

Jordan, Radio Shack sells VCR/DVD combinations.

Turned on my television just in time to hear "Chocolate Jimmy" in Stress Position utter the phrase, "I'm no Anna Nicole. I don't like to be made a spectacle of."

Weird they are showing this ep today, isn't it?

Thanks. Unfortunately I won't have time to go pick one up. It's already 6:30 and the show starts at 8 (I just got outta the shower). I guess I'll just have to catch a rerun.

[alliehalliwell]

Oh my gosh, had to write about this.

First off, any non-Canadians know who Karla Homolka is?

Well, she's one of Canada's most notorious murderers. Here's the gist: about 13 or 14 years ago, she and her boyfriend Paul Bernardo were arrested for a couple girls' murders. One of the girls was her sister. The girls were raped and cut up pretty badly.

apparently b/4 they were arrested, the police talked to Karla and she had no interest to whether or not her sister was alive. I remember hearing about how the police were questioning her and Karla didn't care about anything except for some jewellery that her sister borrowed. She asked the detectives about that while they were questioning her about her sister.

Karla's defense was that Paul Bernardo was abusive and that she was scared. She made a deal with the DA (or in Canadian Legal speak that's 'Crown Attorney'). So she got a deal for a 12 year prison term.

THEN they found the tapes. Um...yeah...Karla and Paul video taped them drugging, raping and killing the girls. Karla was the one to lure the girls to the building, and while Paul was raping them she was laughing. Everyone who made the deal for Karla to go away for 12 years felt horrible and wanted a longer prison term...even the lawyers but their hands were tied. Paul's away for life thankfully.

Anyways, Karla's out and about, free as a bird. Just after she was released, she did a live tv interview on the news. Even the reporters admitted to being freaked out later because karla was cold and her eyes were dead. she had no remorse even though she claimed to. I saw a couple minutes of it and it freaked me out. You could so tell she didn't care about any of it.

THEN we find out a couple months later that she was communing via snail mail, to a male prisoner in a prison in Montreal I think...he was a murderer too. apparently she's not supposed to do this but instead of being tossed back in prison, she agreed to end the 'relationship'...which she apparently did, and wasn't penalized for it.

And what leads me to this big rant?

Karla just had a baby! yes ladies and gentleman, the psycho-murderer just procreated...just what we need. I hope to god her baby is raised by someone else...someone i dunno...sane?


FYI - Law&Order (original) did an ep on this. It had Lennie (Orbach) in it and instead of using video tapes, they used photographs.