I’ll just note that a UXO can be a real pain in the arse!! ::rimshot::
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Thanks, I’m here all week. Try the veal.
Rectum? It nearly killed… everyone!
If the rectal UXO had been real and had detonated we could have used the old joke:
Q: What was the last thing to go through his mind?
A: His a$$hole.
Snopes–a site I read with more dicey information than the NY Post–did their thing and rated it true, starting with a Reddit cite scooped us/me by one day.
Responsibly enough in this case, Snopes revisited Richard Gere and the Gerbil, supposedly placed in the same place for the same reason.
Worth noting, in my opinion, is that being 88 years old does not affect one’s libido to the extent that you find it pleasurable to put strange things up your butt.
Perhaps it was a case of a learned man searching for more wisdom in his remaining few years, and the pleasure was purely intellectual.
In either case, it is a lesson for us all.
PS: he’s way old, so maybe one of nostalgia.
Perhaps not, but it may be that an 88YO person has a long history of taking pleasure from putting strange things up their butt.
You people could be making unfounded ass-umptions. The poor old feller might have accidentally fallen on the WMD, like this unfortunate victim.
“Million-to-one shot, doc!”
It wasn’t just the hospital evacuated.
And, FTR, one of the old tv MD dramas–the one I think with George Clooney before he was George Clooney–had this UXO in body requiring surgery hospital wide drama ensues in addition to hero surgeons thing, but lacked the whole “I fell on it it’s a sex thing” reveal-- again truth is not only stranger, but funnier than fiction.
In some of the original French reports, the relevant French vocab is almost poetic;
As I say–and in line with Machine_Elf immediately above–suggesting perhaps it was done purely for nostalgia: 88 years, with whatever time subtracted for puberty, is pretty darn close to WWI.
Maybe the shell had been active – if not in this hospital event–it had been to his knowledge and part of the sexual attraction of it all.
Moreover, again on the dating of past practices with that particular shell, or a similar one with which he broke his cherry, so to speak, either shell might be one taken directly from WWI active or recently decommissioned stock by his father or other relative, who taught him the practice, or the son observed it and figured he’d follow in his father’s footsteps (insert joke).
If Machine_Elf’s suggestion is true, not to speak of the two I supply here, we are provided another teachable moment: one hell of a strong multi-role and mission-capable rectum all of us have,
PS: addressed particularly to one of the many savants in this thread: one may say a veritable Fat Amy, in theory at least.
[A personal note from me, the mad scientist obsessed with zombies:
I don’t even know if I am OP or even posted in this thread. But I remembered it; moreover, thought this news event important enough to search the threads and post after 6 months of absence here, which itself was preceded by years of self-imposed exile from this island.
Huh.]
Apparently it was a demilitarized shell, and an inheritance from his brother.
Demil-ed or not, it sure made the ER staff say, “UX-whoaaa!”
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Again, I’m here all week. Please try the veal.
This was one of the plots in MASH season 2 episode 9.
It was also a rescue in an episode of Emergency!. A collector had somehow gotten a WWII grenade lodged inside his abdomen. Dr Brackett and Dr Morton came to extract it, with John and Roy’s help. The bomb squad placed it in a container to take it off for disposal.
Actually, IT was Elliott Gould’s comedy “ER” and it was the putz accidentally shot his wife with what was supposed to be an explosive-tipped bullet from some eastern euro country (they were a gift from someone)… which is why it didn’t explode it was dud ,the thing was those aren’t federally kosher and he tried not to tell anyone but someone knew what it was by looking at it
it was EP 9
Watch your step around Civil War battlefields, too:
I’m glad I didn’t jump up and down when we visited Little Round Top. 
Latest case in point in the UK