BS: Daft as a brush

Subject: Daft as a brush
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 24 Jul 01 - 04:25 AM

This is on BBC News Online so it must be true...

A pensioner had to have a toothbrush surgically removed from his backside after he used it to scratch his piles.

The 69-year-old - whose name is being kept quiet - had the brush removed by doctors in a hospital.

The British Dental Association's Dr Jacinta Yeo told reporters: "This is a surprising use for a toothbrush and we would recommend that people use toothbrushes in the way they are intended."

(c)BBC News Online

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Daft as a brush
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 24 Jul 01 - 06:13 AM

Ouch!

Subject: RE: BS: Daft as a brush
From: okthen
Date: 24 Jul 01 - 06:16 AM

Reminds me of a story I read in the apocryphal tales section of the guardian.

A couple were on holiday on one of the mediterranean islands and on their return to the hotel room, found it ransacked, fearing a burglary they checked to see what was missing - nothing was gone, not even the camera ( an easily saleable item)so they carried on with their holiday and forgot about it. On returning to UK they had their photo's developed and there were all the places they recognised,all the faces they recognised, and two backsides they did not recognise protruding from which were two toothbrushes they did recognise.

cheers

bill

Subject: RE: BS: Daft as a brush
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 24 Jul 01 - 06:26 AM

Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'ring of confidence'!

Subject: RE: BS: Daft as a brush
From: Fiolar
Date: 24 Jul 01 - 07:09 AM

That's nowt. More years ago than I care to remember while working as a psychiatric nurse, one of our patients managed to insert a tin which used to contain Largactil tablets sideways up his rectum. The tin was about three inches high and about two inches in diameter. The removal necessitated surgery at the local general hospital. Also on the subject of bottoms - try this story which at one time did the rounds of all the hospitals. A newly appointed doctor was being shown around one of his wards in a psychiatric hospital by the nurse in charge. Looking out of the window he saw one of the patients walking around the airing court with his right hand pressed firmly on his backside. The doctor asked the nurse what was the patient's problem and was told that he had the delusion that that there was a bee in his bum. "I'll cure him", said the doctor. He saw the patient and told him that he had arranged for him to have an operation to remove the troublesome bee. In due course the patient was taken to the operating theatre and given an anaestethic. When he came around thd doctor told him that the bee had now been removed and should cause him no more trouble. A few days later the doctor had cause to visit the ward again and saw the patient once more walking around with his hand as before. Calling him over the doctor asked him what was now the problem as the bee had been removed. The patient replied, "Doctor, if you had a bee up your ass for twenty years, you'd want to make bloody sure that another one wouldn't fly up there." Collapse of doctor

Subject: RE: BS: Daft as a brush
From: gnu
Date: 24 Jul 01 - 02:48 PM

We use candles in my travel trailer when in the woods. My buddy brushed his teeth with the contents of the tube on the counter by the sink one morning and complained about the taste of the toothpaste I had brought. When your're in the woods for a week or more, you bring something like "Desitin", a diaper rash cream, in case of getting a rash from chafing of the crotch, armpits, or anywhere else.

Subject: RE: BS: Daft as a brush
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Jul 01 - 06:39 PM

I cleaned my teeth with Deep Heat embrocation when I was nearly 4 and couldn't read.... I learned to read pretty quickly after that, and even today, the slightest whiff of Deep Heat will make me hurl.....

My sister used to work in a military hospital and she said the things that bored squaddies will stuff up their bums is beyond belief. In the film 'The Tall Guy', there is someone with a vacuum cleaner hose up there.... based on fact - my sister had to remove one, complete with the nozzle for going down the backs of chairs!!

LTS