From: sbharris@ix.netcom.com(Steven B. Harris)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Arrow
Date: 19 Jan 1998 18:51:54 GMT

In <34c41b45.5372317@news.deltanet.com> no@email.please (Murphy)
writes:
>
>On Sat, 17 Jan 1998 20:26:48 -0600, Wolf303 <rps@flash.net> wrote:
>
>>Just how do you get an arrow out of your butt? I kinda need to know,
>>cause I was practicing archery, and my neighbor happened to be in his
>>yard planting seeds.
>
>I suggest you not try to pull the arrow out, but push it through so it
>comes out the other side.  It will also help to give him a big swig of
>whiskey and then pour some on the wound before doing this.  I am an
>expert on this, since I have seen many cowboy movies.
>
>- Murphy


   You forgot the part about notching the arrow and filling with black
powder (not smokeless-- that's for wimps), and igniting the thing as
you push it through.  For cautery, you know.  It works for docs in John
Ford movies, so there HAS to be something to it.

                                       Doc Hollywood