From: sbharris@ix.netcom.com(Steven B. Harris)
Newsgroups: sci.med.nursing,sci.med.cardiology,alt.travel,alt.lawyers,
	sci.physics,talk.politics
Subject: Algor Mortis (Re: Heart machines at the airport)
Date: 3 Jun 1999 09:51:50 GMT

In <6Ci53.3014$ea.324623@nnrp1.ptd.net> "Kimber" <kimber1@ptd.net>
writes:

>Leo Sgouros <lsgouro1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
>news:CNc53.250$tp5.7587@newse2.tampabay.rr.com...
>>
>> Trudy Farsi wrote in message <7j3g1n$8ce$1@news1.Radix.Net>...
>> >Kurt Ullman écrit:
>> >>In article <Q3a53.134$IQ5.6781@newse3.tampabay.rr.com>, "Leo Sgouros"
>> >><lsgouro1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>>
>> >>>Why is an airport giving me the option of possibly harming someone with a
>> >>>machine I have never used.
>> >>>I wonder what the disclaimers look like?
>> >
>> >>I am going over this one more time..slowly. They are NOT putting them
>> >>out on the concourse, etc. behind glass panels like the fire
>> >>extinguishers.
>> >
>> >Well if there available like that than whats to keep people from
>> >grabbing them and using them like on dogs and stuff. This seems like a
>> >very dangerous thing to be leave laying around!!!
>>
>>
>> Well the CNN report I saw showed them just stashed in a wall.
>> I think it is a really bad idea.
>
>That's because you don't really understand the concept and what it can do
>for someone who is pulseless and breathless.
>
>Kim
>kimber1@ptd.net


Comment:

   That's an idea.  Do you suppose it might do something to electrify
the animated corpse of Al Gore?

   You know, when someone dies, the reactions in the muscles which
cause stiffness, aka rigor mortis, also give off some heat and you get
a little rise in temperature before it states to fall.  The little
known technical term for this phenomenon is "algor mortis."  You think
I'm kidding, but you can look it up if you want.  I propose therefore
that we have an official AlGore Mortis Society, dedicated to the study
of political corpses that are stiff but also still warm, and therefore
a source of confusion to the uneducated.  And we also need a new term,
perhaps viagra mortis, for political decedents who appear to be
properly their old cold selves, but not stiff.  Bob Dole, etc.

                                          Helpfully,

                                          Steve Harris

                  Help for the Flexionally Impaired
                               Thermally Different and
                               Metabolically Challenged