On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:20:27 -0500, the infamous "Buerste"
scrawled the following:


"Michael Koblic" wrote in message
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http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.co.../bagel-danger/

Surely everyone knows that the proper tool to cut bagels is a bandsaw!

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Michael Koblic
Campbell River, BC

As a reminder not to cast stones etc. I just brought my wife home from
emergency where she received stitches to a nearly severed tip of her
finger. Aparently the last carrot had it in for her. With her favorite
knife and all. Has not had an accident like this last 20-odd years.

What impressed me most that after the carrots she bandaged her finger,
finished the rest of the massive prep, watched me put some of the stuff
together and only then admitted to the mishap. The power of a family
re-union!


I'll bet that knife is dull. A very sharp knife causes far fewer accidents.

True, usually.

I had just sharpened Mom's kitchen knife and was dicing up some meat
for stew when I hit a piece of supremely tough gristle. It pulled my
thumb into the line of fire and, before I knew it, the blade had cut
halfway through my thumbtip and nail, stopping on the distal phalanx.
I'd have lost my thumbtip had that bone not been in there. Whew!

Mom screamed when I said "Aw, ****.", but I just walked over to the
sink, cleaned the wound, dried it, applied some Bacitracin and a
bandaid, and got back to work. A hospital probably would have given
me a dozen stitches, but it healed on its own (with the butterfly
bandage) in a couple weeks with minimal fuss and pain. ERs are highly
overrated.

The blood (+ soap and warm water) cleansed the wound, the Bacitracin
prevented infection, and the clean cut allowed the skin to reattach to
itself without stitches, without any scarring, and without very much
pain at all. I was very happy about all 3. Which reminds me to grab
a little bottle of Povidone the next chance I get. It's a very good
cleanser/microbicide, too.

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas
to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label
of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem
important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
-- Thomas J. Watson