Aspirated toast crumbs.
Spent most of the first hour-and-a-half I was upright today hacking and coughing and retching and making Bobbi wonder if she remembered the Heinlein maneuver. I'm sure the stream of Diet Mountain Dew Code Red-colored spit into the trash can was momentarily alarming for observers; pink frothy stuff coming out of people's mouths is usually a Very Bad Sign.
Today's VFTP ProTip: Bread may be the staff of life, but you can't breathe it. Your lungs should be gluten free,
Isn't that the maneuver where you write a timeless short story and have it published in a 99 cent paperback?
ReplyDeleteASM-heh.
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(Bread crumb)
ASM wins.
ReplyDeleteTAM!!
ReplyDeleteDainty, lady-like bites! Do not inhale your food!
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Tam, you've got to learn how to chant latin phrases in a deep voice when you spew red froth.
ReplyDeleteIt kept frat punks from bothering me in college. :)
Maybe it's when a cat tries to walk right through the phlemmy (!) area and... Oh, never mind...
ReplyDelete...And you like Code Red too?? I've been assailed for my fondness for comestibles that do not occur in nature. Glad I'm not the only one...
Sorry to hear you are not well. Take care.
ReplyDeleteI always thought pink frothy stuff coming out of people's mouths was a sign of too many Sunday morning political programs.
ReplyDeleteI just need to do more situps. An extended bout of coughing like that left me feeling like I'd pulled every muscle between my chin and my belly button.
ReplyDeleteYou are NOT a refined wheat-based life form!
ReplyDelete(just a reminder)
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Inhale gases, swallow liquids and solids. Do not get these confused, or your warranty will be void.
ReplyDeleteSo, this isn't what Tam's abs look like these days?
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ASM, I think it was a five cent paperback.
ReplyDeleteYou sure you weren't hacking up a hair ball?
ReplyDeleteGerry
I feel your pain...literally.
ReplyDeleteI did the same thing on Christmas morning.
It ain't fun.
...Two or three million paperbacks @ $0.99 each, let's see, carry the two... Whoa! Nice manuver, Admiral.
ReplyDelete(Plus, you already got paid for the original magazine appearance!)
Don't ever have acid reflux in your sleep.
ReplyDeleteIt's worse.
Can't beat ASM... Hope you feel better soon!
ReplyDeleteHeinlein Maneuver? An armed society being a polite society?
ReplyDeleteCoughing up pink froth?
ReplyDeleteNow you can be an authentic Huckleberry. :)
Diet Mountain Dew Code Red before 9 am? Makes me feel better about that glass of sake at 3am. Not sure if that qualified as a late digestif (it was sitting on the table left over from dinner, honest) or a really early degenerate's breakfast.
ReplyDeleteNow if you had only covered that toast with delicious, artery-clogging cream cheese all that unpleasantness with loose crumbs could have been avoided.
"Don't ever have acid reflux in your sleep"
ReplyDeleteIndeed. I used to scoff at the purple pill commercials until that happened to me.
The Heinlein Manuver: Write Novel. Decide it's too far ahead of its time. Sell the chapters as short stories. Make money doing that. Collect the stories into trade paper anthologies. Make money doing that too. Then, sell the original manuscript posthumously. Make even more money.
ReplyDeleteThose who've read For Us the Living, Revolt in 2100, and The Green Hills of Earth will know what I mean.
Glad I wasn't there to see it; glad you're here to write about it.
ReplyDeleteSorry i can't remember the Heinlein Book the only sci-fi in it now days is time travel. Written in 1954 i think he got way to much (cards that let you access your bank from machines across town) right.
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping for Cats.
Kevin S TX