Yeah, reminded me of the time I was at the store at saw a thermometer that was labeled "high speed rectal thermometer".
Originally Posted by KevinMDOK
Well now, how long would you like to have one of those things in you?
High speed reading, and get that thing out.
In the 60s I had a stomach surgury for a combat wound in the military with a lot of painkiller to knock me out. As I started to wake up a nurse stuck one of those things in my butt. Hardly awake I knew when she left for shift change leaving that glass thing with mercury in my ass. Still mostly asleep from the surgury I told my self over and over, don't pass out - don't pass out that thing can break.
After an hour the head nurse (I could see the eagle on her collar) came over to set me up. All I could do was grunt and try to point back to my butt. It took at least six times with me trying to resist before she turned me over and took a look.
She yelled Oh my God, someone left a daffodil in this guy's ass.
(Daffodil via Latin from Greek asphodelos; compare with daffodil. Thus, this is slang for a rectal thermometer.)
It was s fight to try and stay awake, but I knew something bad for me would happen if that thing broke off.