Trivia

[okarol]

Back to blood facts: What percentage of people in the U.S. have type O (+/-) blood?

[boxman55]

Almost 40% of the population has O+ blood

Patients with Type O blood must receive Type O blood

About half of all blood ordered by hospitals in our area is Type O

Type O blood is the universal blood type and is the only blood type that can be transfused to patients with other blood types

Only about 7% of all people have Type O negative blood

Type O negative blood is the preferred type for accident victims and babies needing exchange transfusions

There is always a need for Type O donors because their blood may be transfused to a person of any blood type in an emergency

[okarol]

  You're up Box!

[boxman55]

What is the Lone Ranger's cry to his horse?


Boxman

[twirl]

hi oh silver away or hi ho silver away

I know it is not hi oh tonto away because tonto was his side kick

[boxman55]

You got it your turn twirl...Boxman

[twirl]

other than the obvious reason not to run over an armadillo - it would die
why is it a good reason to avoid running over an armadillo

 

[aharris2]

other than the obvious reason not to run over an armadillo - it would die
why is it a good reason to avoid running over an armadillo

 

a flat tire??

[boxman55]

Feeding the hungry???    ...Boxman

[twirl]

aharris2
your answer is closet to right so I'll give you credit-------extra recess time today 

Boxman - you are so humorous, always make me laugh, unless it is a serious post, then you are very wise

Some of my students eat armadillo, they barbeque it

armadillos jump when they are afraid, they hear the noise the car makes and will jump which will do damage to your car
we like to shoot at them when they are in our garden, not to kill or hurt them, just to see them jump

isn't cruelity to animals, we never hit them

[aharris2]

aharris2
your answer is closet to right so I'll give you credit-------extra recess time today 

Does that mean we're up?

OK, who participated in the first interracial kiss on TV?

[boxman55]

The first interracial kiss on American network television was in the "Star Trek" episode entitled "Plato's Stepchildren," which aired on November 22, 1968, when Captain Kirk (William Shatner) kissed Lieutenant Uhura (Nichelle Nichols). Some stations in the South (U.S.) originally refused to air the episode...Boxman

[aharris2]

And we have a winner!!!
Boxman, you're up...

[boxman55]

Which German company, maker of precision cameras, revolutionized the world of casual photography in 1930 when it introduced 35 mm film in a canister, easily transportable and smoothly inserted into a camera?...Boxman

[mikey07840]

Leica?

[boxman55]

Leica is correct. Your turn mikey....Boxman

[mikey07840]

What was the was the first local anesthetic?

[kitkatz]

A whack over the head 

[okarol]

Surprisingly, the first local anesthetic was Cocaine which was isolated from coca leaves by Albert Niemann in Germany in the 1860s. The very first clinical use of Cocaine was in 1884 by (of all people) Sigmund Freud who used it to wean a patient from morphine addiction.  It was Freud and his colleague Karl Kollar who first noticed its anesthetic effect.  Kollar first introduced it to clinical ophthalmology as a topical ocular (eye) anesthetic.  Also in 1884, Dr. William Stewart Halsted was the first to describe the injection of cocaine into a sensory nerve trunk to create surgical anesthesia.
 

[aharris2]

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[boxman55]

Friday nite at the Freud House. Party on, Dude

[KT0930]

The very first clinical use of Cocaine was in 1884 by (of all people) Sigmund Freud who used it to wean a patient from morphine addiction. 

Talk about going from the frying pan into the fire!

[mikey07840]

Kitkatz, you are soooo close. But, unfortunately that is not the correct answer. (There are many nurses and techs that I feel need such therapy. From me. But I digress.) 

Okarol, you are correct and you are up. 

[okarol]

The Civil War produced over 400,000 victims of "soldiers disease."
Also known as "old soldier's disease," what do these terms refer to?

[twirl]

many soldiers died from dysentery or direaha, that does not seem like too much of a social thing

so a disease -----sexual, venereal

they also died from passing surgical equipment from patient to patient without cleaning them ( the equipment)