I don’t know if this is the right place for this, but:
I remember reading something on the news of the weird website about some bad blood between Cecil and Chuck. Does anyone know what happened?
Thanks
I don’t know if this is what you’re referring to, but Cecil and Chuck did have a less than cordial exchange over the purported practice of “gerbil-stuffing.”
Responding to a letter from Jan Brunvand, Cecil wrote that a supposed incidence of gerbil-stuffing reported by Chuck Shepherd was probably bogus. (Shepherd had cited an issue of Surgery, which Cecil checked - there was no reference to gerbils in the article.)
Shepherd responded to Cecil’s column by admitting that he was wrong, and that he had made a “transcribing error.”
Cecil questioned this:
This elicited another response from Chuck, in which he basically called Cecil a smartass.
The original column was this one, I believe.
I couldn’t find any of the ensuing correspondence online, but you can read it in Return of The Straight Dope, p. 402 - 404.
That has to be it. Thanks splatterpunk!
let me get this straight… a surgeon, upon removing a light bulb from someone’s rectum (still intact I’d assume), notes down on the chart not only what wattage the bulb is, but also whether it’s frosted or not?
:eek:
What can we say? The surgeon was anal-retentive?
lmao, lurkernomore.
I’d say the patient was anal retentive!