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Va. Woman Gets Stuck in Bathtub for 5 Days
Sun Apr 17,10:54 PM ET
HAMPTON, Va. - A 75-year-old woman who lay trapped in her bathtub for five days toasted her rescue with a cola and a cigarette. Jane Fromal suffered slight dehydration even though she said she ran tap water to drink during the ordeal.
Doctors said they would keep her at the hospital for a few days to make sure her muscles were working right.
Fromal drew a bath Saturday afternoon to nurse a sore tailbone.
"I thought I'd get in the tub and soak," she said Thursday as she rested at Riverside Regional Medical Center. "I didn't know I was going to soak for five days."
She tried to lift herself up a number of times but was unable to do so. Her elbows and forearms were left raw and sore.
Fromal didn't sleep much during the five days. "How can you sleep in a bathtub?"
She finally got help when a neighbor's grandson noticed newspapers piling up in her driveway and insisted his grandmother call Fromal's family.
Shaun Foley, 21, tried banging on her doors and windows and noticed that her mailbox was stuffed.
James Mountjoy, Fromal's grandson-in-law, burst through a locked storm door. Family members found her in the bathroom off her upstairs bedroom on Wednesday evening.
After donning a warm robe, being lifted to safety and drinking a little water, Fromal didn't ask for food. She wanted one of her Parliament 100s and a Coke.
It wasn't the first time Fromal, who has a little trouble with her legs, has been stuck in the bathtub. A few weeks ago she lay in the tub all day.
Fromal's family plans to add railings and a tub chair in her bathroom.
Source: Farstrider.net
Sun Apr 17,10:54 PM ET
HAMPTON, Va. - A 75-year-old woman who lay trapped in her bathtub for five days toasted her rescue with a cola and a cigarette. Jane Fromal suffered slight dehydration even though she said she ran tap water to drink during the ordeal.
Doctors said they would keep her at the hospital for a few days to make sure her muscles were working right.
Fromal drew a bath Saturday afternoon to nurse a sore tailbone.
"I thought I'd get in the tub and soak," she said Thursday as she rested at Riverside Regional Medical Center. "I didn't know I was going to soak for five days."
She tried to lift herself up a number of times but was unable to do so. Her elbows and forearms were left raw and sore.
Fromal didn't sleep much during the five days. "How can you sleep in a bathtub?"
She finally got help when a neighbor's grandson noticed newspapers piling up in her driveway and insisted his grandmother call Fromal's family.
Shaun Foley, 21, tried banging on her doors and windows and noticed that her mailbox was stuffed.
James Mountjoy, Fromal's grandson-in-law, burst through a locked storm door. Family members found her in the bathroom off her upstairs bedroom on Wednesday evening.
After donning a warm robe, being lifted to safety and drinking a little water, Fromal didn't ask for food. She wanted one of her Parliament 100s and a Coke.
It wasn't the first time Fromal, who has a little trouble with her legs, has been stuck in the bathtub. A few weeks ago she lay in the tub all day.
Fromal's family plans to add railings and a tub chair in her bathroom.
Source: Farstrider.net
I Stepped On A Cornflake!!! Now I'm A Cereal Killer!
@ Dare2 and GeoTrail
The question was originally proposed by a certain Mr R Griffin, while studying product design and alcoholism at one of the London Universities.
I no longer have contact with him, but I think that his reply to both of the questions posed would most likely be “Quack”.
(Maybe followed by “I use a Mac, if it runs the rain OS”)
Does this help at all?
The question was originally proposed by a certain Mr R Griffin, while studying product design and alcoholism at one of the London Universities.
I no longer have contact with him, but I think that his reply to both of the questions posed would most likely be “Quack”.
(Maybe followed by “I use a Mac, if it runs the rain OS”)
Does this help at all?
@RichardL
Very zennish stuff.
The usual response to "What is the difference between?" is "between what?" and the retort to that is "I'm not giving you any clues!"
Good for use after drink number ? (? = we've lost count) when it either becomes hilariously funny or starts a fight.
Very zennish stuff.
The usual response to "What is the difference between?" is "between what?" and the retort to that is "I'm not giving you any clues!"
Good for use after drink number ? (? = we've lost count) when it either becomes hilariously funny or starts a fight.
@}--`--,-- A rose by any other name ..
@bonne_den_kule: already used 
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OK, here it is, the full question and the full answer, as formulated by Robert Griffin in about 1990. For those who are really interested, he was working near the village of Frant in south east England at the time developing a machine to watch a clock going round. (It worked by the way, and he got his degree!)
The Question: What is the difference between a duck?
The Answer : One of its legs is twice the same.
Don’t blame me, to calm him down we almost had to carry him outside and throw a bucket of water over him!
The Question: What is the difference between a duck?
The Answer : One of its legs is twice the same.
Don’t blame me, to calm him down we almost had to carry him outside and throw a bucket of water over him!
Ouch. I just sprained a braincell. (When you only have two that is pretty close to having a lobotomy!)RichardL wrote:The Question: What is the difference between a duck?
The Answer : One of its legs is twice the same.
You're kidding!RichardL wrote:.. developing a machine to watch a clock going round ..
@}--`--,-- A rose by any other name ..