Dennis Claxton wrote:
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> At 03:23 PM 4/2/2009, shag carpet bomb wrote:
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> >welcome back Carrol!
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> >I was disappointed that I didn't awake to a slew of overposts.
> >
> >shag
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> Me too. Will we see a day soon when people send emails *during* a
> colonoscopy? Has that already happened?
Rather difficult to post while under a general anaesthetic. Current anaesthesia is really impressive for anyone who had surgery in an earlier period. I had no surgery between xmas eve 1936 (atuo accident) and January 1990 (broken hip). There is quite a difference between that (out like a light, awake bing) and inhaling ether in 1936 (and coming groggily awake as I was being driven home later that night).
Of course it is this sort of technological change for the better that creates the iddeological illusion of Social Progress as a immanent in history.
Carrol