I recognized the name and even what instrument he plays, but I suddenly drew a blank on the band and couldn’t count it.
I knew most of the names on the rocker list.
One major back surgery. Two outpatient.
I’m the only fan of The Runaways?
Also, Peter Criss of KISS is listed in the spoiler but isn’t on the survey.
I knew who she was, too. 
To be fair (and speaking as a big Queen fan), at least here in the U.S., he’s probably the least well-known of the four, particular compared to Mercury and May. Plus, he’s been retired from the band, and public life as a whole, for thirty years now.
I am disturbed by the fact that only a third of the respondents know who Fred Schneider or Paul Kantner is/was.
I’m just surprised that not everyone knows the wild shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner.
Is “major surgery” anything one’s admitted to the hospital and put under anaesthesia for? Is “minor surgery” anything that involves cutting into the body that’s done as outpatient with local anaesthesia, while the patient’s awake?
(The definition I know best is “it’s minor surgery if it’s done on somebody else. It’s major surgery if they’re doing it on me!” but I’ve certainly heard surgeries done in hospital under general anaesthesia described as “minor” if they’re commonly done and considered low risk and don’t cause major alterations to the body.)
Does a second procedure made necessary by results of an earlier procedure count? If it’s done while still in the hospital after the earlier one, does it count as two procedures or as one? (It was two days later. I’m pretty sure the medical people thought of it as minor; implanting a pacemaker. But I was in the hospital and anaesthetized.)
I’m not that surprised. Everybody knows the B-52s, but they don’t necessarily know the band members names. I know Fred, but if you asked me to name the two women, no clue. I honestly couldn’t even name you all of the Rolling Stones, and I’m over 40; they were still producing “classic” material in my lifetime.
Probably they are actually freezer burned, or something. I expect a shrimp to have a consistent texture, and sometimes there has been one end that is a bit mushy, even though the other end is firm, not rubbery.
Regarding surgeries, so far I’ve had minor surgery 3 times, all oral.
I didn’t count my appendectomy (in hospital) @ age 6 as “major” surgery (which otherwise would be my only one), which to me means invasive cutting into my body, not a simple snip of an infected gland.
I’m in the same situation. I already have flexible hours, less than 40 generally, and more vacation than I know what to do with. So it was down to office of my own or free lunch. Well, the free lunch is worth almost a $4,000 value… that’s a nice pay raise (that I can use to pay off student loans if I want.) I work in a semi-open office with half-cubes, which can be very distracting. But with so many people including me WFH, it’s not as noisy as it used to be. And if I took the office, I’d be leaving behind a team member, and I enjoy our little cubes in the back of the office by the window. I enjoy talking to her at least once a week when we’re in the office on the same day.
So I’m going with lunch.
So how did they get access to the appendix? Teleportation?
They had to cut your belly open.
I’m not sure what counts as major surgery.
I had both my knees operated on via arthroscopy when I was a teen
I had my wisdom teeth removed in my twenties (by a surgeon named Dr. Fear! And he shared an office with Dr. Hitchcock. When Dr. Fear took a look he said, “I don’t think we’ll have to break your jaw or anything to get them out.” Way to put my mind at ease!)
I had an emergency gall bladder surgery in my mid 30s. That definitely had to count. I was in the hospital for two days and it took over a month to recover. I was in too much pain to really register the gravity of the situation until it was over.
Arrgh dyslexia.
TONSILLECTomy. %^&##%^^*.
I’m effectively usually righthanded, but may have trained myself that way as a child from originally being slightly lefthanded (the evidence for this is a) my mother’s testimony and b) that if I’ve never done something before, I sometimes try to do it in a left-handed fashion. ETA: also possibly c) that I’m clumsy, though there might be other reasons for that. Nobody told me to switch handedness; but I apparently thought – probably incorrectly – that they’d make me switch in school so switched myself before starting.)
So I didn’t know what to put in the hand clasping poll, which assumes that everybody’s clearly one or the other. But FWIW, when I try I discover that I have a clear preference for having the right index finger closer to the thumbs. – voted “other”.
Eye of the beholder kind of thing. My spinal fusion was major. A scope of my knee was not. My criteria? My own opinion
I was a bit confused about the major surgery thing too. I did have one where I was checked into the hospital and expected to stay overnight, but didn’t need to, so they let me go. I had a helluva night at home with reacting to the anesthesia insane headache but here I am to tell the tale so I marked it as day surgery. I had a similar procedure a couple of years later that was done as day surgery.
Oh, I’d be very happy with a job with good benefits. I’ve been self employed and benefits are much harder and expensive to deal with that way. Even the ones you can write off.
I didn’t vote in the name of musician poll because, frankly, I’m bored by those polls. Sorry/not sorry.
Shrimpies are pretty delicious but I have thyroid issues so I only allow myself seafood rarely.
I woke up while the oral surgeon was still struggling with my right lower wisdom tooth. That was weird.
My surgeries were all minor (knock wood). Removal of a benign tumor on my foot. The above mentioned wisdom teeth surgery. Cataract surgery. I once had a susicious lymph node that, thankfully, turned out to be a benign situation. Tonsils (with a ear surgery at the same time).
Does Lasix count?
Ladin is a brand name for the diuretic furosemide, so no.
Guess I’m being whooshed. But I meant the eye surgery. Did I misspell it?