OT: Test #223B

[wire chief]

14..Alexandre Dumas' famous portrait of..?

15..Ralph Reed fell into obscurity due to a connection to Abramoff. He's emerging again as..?

16..Word play: A Batman enemy fixing his chimney.

17..Jesu, Joy of Man's ________.

18..Over time one takes 162 _________ of _______ daily for heart health.

19..Viti Levu & Vanua Levu are the 2 largest islands of..?

20.."If you spend an evening, you'll want to stay."

21..Ruth Benedict's classic of Japan?

22..What was the cause of tomatoes being poisonous during the middle ages?

23.."There's cold cream now in _____."

24..What were Bulawayo, Zimbabwe folks asked to do simultaneously at 7:30 on a recent evening?

25..Ashrita Furman has 147 of these.

The game is in play.

 

[Kibitzer]

17. Desiring

 

[VAUConnFan]

14. George Washington
16. Joker Stoker
18. milligrams of aspirin
19. New Guinea
22. People ate the plant as well as the fruit.
24. I'm not even going to venture a facetious poke at this one.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

18. games of baseball
19. Vanuatu (former New Hebrides)

 

[Bestiarius]

18. MG of aspirin
20. Cape Cod Bay (Old Cape Cod)
22. the acid leached lead out of their pewter plates.
24. Flush toilets.
25. Guiness records.

 

[vtcwbuff]

18. Milligrams of aspirin
19. Micronesia?
20. Hotel California?
22. Lead in cans?
24. Flush!!!

 

[geordi]

16. Riddler on the Roof???
19. Fiji
21. The Chrysantheum and the Sword
23 . Camay Soap

 

[meyers7]

16. Joker Stoker??
17. Desiring (Bach)
23. Dove??

 

[rbny1]

15. Reed is the former head of the Christian Coalition, a powerful political group, who fell from power in the Abramoff scandal. He is resurgent with a new group, the Faith and Freedom Coalition, and is supporting Romney. (This just proves again, Wire chief, that you read the NY Times and I read the NY Times and I can answer your questions taken from articles in the Times.)

 

[wire chief]

14..You may have been misled by the word "portrait". He is the author of THE COUNT OF MONTE CHRISTO.

15..See rbny...who made me laugh.

16..Good job, geordi!--The Riddler on the Roof.

17..Desiring (a Baroque hymn)--Reverend Kibitzer & Monsignor Meyers.

18..Collectively you have given me an overdose of aspirin.

19..Geordi has Fiji (For some reason the International Date Line goes right through another of Fiji's islands, so one can
actually stand in 2 days simultaneously...that is, if you have a mind to.

20..Well, VTC, since you can never leave, you may as well want to stay. Best has Old Cape Cod, Patti Page, I think.

21..Geordi is correct with THE CHRYSANTHEMUM AND THE SWORD. She tells us of the 2 paradoxical aspects of the culture.

22..Best is most explanatory. High acid of tomatoes caused lead to leach out of their pewter plates. This wasn't realized for 400 years.

23..Geordi on target with Camay.

24..Best & VTC. Flushing toilets all at once would clear the sewerage pipes.

25..Best is up on Guinness records.

Twenty-two of 25 is a fine score...and I know none of you stayed up all night cramming.

 

[TXs N Os]

18. I think most people who take Aspirin for cardiac reasons only take 81 mg per day.

 

[vtcwbuff]

18. I think most people who take Aspirin for cardiac reasons only take 81 mg per day.

2 X 81 = 162 as in "take two aspirins and call me in the morning."

 

[TXs N Os]

"take two aspirins and call me in the morning."

Those 2 aspirins would be 325 mg each, so 2 would be 650 mg.

 

[meyers7]

18. I think most people who take Aspirin for cardiac reasons only take 81 mg per day.

I'm on 325 once a day.

 

[TXs N Os]

I'm on 325 once a day.

You're not 'most people'.

 

[vtcwbuff]

Those 2 aspirins would be 325 mg each, so 2 would be 650 mg.

Bayer Low Strength aspirin is 81 mg.

 

[wire chief]

Bayer Low Strength aspirin is 81 mg.

Also known as children's aspirin, where one is advised to take 2 daily, again, for heart health.

 

[TXs N Os]

Again, for the sake of accuracy, most people who take aspirin daily for heart health take one 81 mg aspirin a day. I work as a pre-op nurse at a surgical hospital and obtain medication lists from about 20 to 40 patients a day and have been doing this for quite some time. 99% of the people who take aspirin daily for heart health only take 81 mg per day.

 

[wire chief]

Again, for the sake of accuracy, most people who take aspirin daily for heart health take one 81 mg aspirin a day. I work as a pre-op nurse at a surgical hospital and obtain medication lists from about 20 to 40 patients a day and have been doing this for quite some time. 99% of the people who take aspirin daily for heart health only take 81 mg per day.

I suppose my doc could be alone, but judging by other comments, he isn't quite. I have run into regional differences in the practice of medicine. Could this be an example. I certainly can't say myself if one or two of the little critters protects best.