# Please, IPU, let the X-Ray tech simply have a warped sense of humour. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 28, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907 "2006-12-28T21:23:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907/21 "2006-12-29T03:39:26Z")
[QUOTE=qwest] Is there something that you would like to tell us? [/QUOTE] Nope. Just stating that if my pink parts - or any part of me, for that matter - was just blasted with a dose of radiation, I’d have given the tech what-fer for saying that. I’m not known for my, uh, diplomacy where my health is concerned. [QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Yes, I thought your gender was female. Must be the cooking thing. 🙂 [/QUOTE] My husband would be very surprised if I wasn’t a woman, lemme tell you. I think the bearing two children and the boobs sorta give it away. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907/22 "2006-12-29T03:54:17Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] My husband would be very surprised if I wasn’t a woman, lemme tell you. I think the bearing two children and the boobs sorta give it away. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Whatever. Thanks for the ginger beef recipe. Must be a Canadian thing. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907/23 "2006-12-29T04:04:08Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] Oh sorry, I was trying to reassure you that it wasn’t necessarily something bad, just weird … I guess I need to work on that reassuring people thing. 😛 [/QUOTE] Nah, I mean it’s freaking me out that someone else thought “partially absorbed twin” would be a funny thing to explain the tech’s alarming ejaculation. Things like that remind me of why I keep coming back to the SDMB. Nobody IRL “gets” me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907/24 "2006-12-29T04:04:34Z")
Reminds me of a story that happened to me earlier this year. I went to see a urologist preliminary appointment for a vasectomy. I was his first appointment after his two week vacation. He had me drop trau and then put on a pair of gloves. He grabbed a hold of the boys and then about a second later yelled “Whoa” and threw his hands in the air. This man sees about ten schlongs in a typical day, what the hell would make him react in such surprise? After what seemed like an eternity he said, “Spider!!” Apparently a spider had made a home in his glove box while he was on vacation. After twenty plus years of practice, he said that that was a first. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907/25 "2006-12-29T04:17:45Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Mudd] tech’s alarming ejaculation. [/QUOTE] Bad phrase for this thread, ok? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907/26 "2006-12-29T05:15:32Z")
**hajario** , when my husband went to the urologist for _his_ vasectomy prelim exam, he fainted (my husband, not the doctor). According to the doctor, that’s the first time _that’s_ happened to him (and thanks to his somewhat lacking bedside manner, my husband is now completely freaked at the idea of getting the mighty snip. Crap.) Oh yeah, and for a guy who is so freaked that he faints at the idea of talking about the operation with the doctor, the doctor gives him a prescription for one fargin’ valium, to be taken the day of the operation. Thanks for damned near nothing, doc. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907/27 "2006-12-29T08:27:22Z")
Be sure you update this thread when you find out what’s wrong, OK? Hope you’re OK and that your prostate is just in the shape of the Virgin Mary or Elvis or something. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907/28 "2006-12-29T10:29:43Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Bad phrase for this thread, ok? 🙂 [/QUOTE] Tech: Oh my God! **Larry Mudd** : What? Tech: Sorry, I was masturbating like a motherf\*ck! You’re fine. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907/29 "2006-12-29T10:43:17Z")
[QUOTE=hajario] Reminds me of a story that happened to me earlier this year. I went to see a urologist preliminary appointment for a vasectomy. I was his first appointment after his two week vacation. He had me drop trau and then put on a pair of gloves. He grabbed a hold of the boys and then about a second later yelled “Whoa” and threw his hands in the air. This man sees about ten schlongs in a typical day, what the hell would make him react in such surprise? After what seemed like an eternity he said, “Spider!!” Apparently a spider had made a home in his glove box while he was on vacation. After twenty plus years of practice, he said that that was a first. [/QUOTE] If you’re in the front seat of your doctor’s car letting him handle your willy, that’s a date, not a physical examination. Oh, you meant “glove box” as in a box of gloves! Never mind, carry on… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907/30 "2006-12-29T11:30:36Z")
SiL the doctor was preggers for the first time. A couple months after finally calming down from her baby’s betrayal (how dare it be a boy!), she goes in for yet another round of ultrasounds. Being a doctor, and at the beginning of the pregnancy still finishing her residency ER rounds, she got about four times as many tests as a non-doctor woman. The screen is in full view of SiL. This is normal, usually they point “oh look, there’s his hand!” to the Mom-to-be. But this Mom-to-be is a doc, terribly uptight (my reaction when I found out she’s got problems going number two was “with the way she eats and the baseball bat she keeps up her ass, I’m surprised she makes poo at all”) and convinced that “everything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” She notices something in the picture… oh no, it’s an enlarged kidney! The Gyne tells her that’s normal, it may not even be an enlarged kidney but simply that it’s growing faster than the other one, finally has to pull up pics from other patients taken one month apart to convince her that “sometimes this goes away by itself”. SiL comes to Mom’s, spends the whole meal giving us the kind of details that most people not in the medical professions find unappetizing, followed by four hours of “oh, and now that I’d finally accepted that it was a boy! Now the fetus will die and I will have gone through all this for nothing and…” At one point the Grandmom-to-be got so angry that she actually said “I’m sorry, yesterday it was ‘he’ and ‘my baby’ and now ‘it’ is ‘a fetus’? I must be getting dull in my old age or something, this does not compute! And if the doctor said, let’s wait and see, Let’s. Wait. And. See!” “Oh, but what if it dies, what if it’s bad, what if…” She’d already decided what it was, I don’t remember the name but it’s something that turns bad in 50% of the cases (and those die quite fast) but stays completely asymptomatic in the other 50%. Of course not only did the baby have this, it was going to be one of the bad cases. A week later, nothing strange on screen. SiL freaks out because both kidneys are bigger than the week before, nurse and ObGyn point out that the whole baby is bigger than he’d been. Oh. Right. SiL’s somewhat relieved but still mumbling to herself “but what if it’s bad?” About the time the baby was due, enlarged kidney on screen again. SiL is completely freaked out, the local docs decide to ship her up to a hospital one hour away because this could be to a number of things and most of them aren’t any real problem, but she keeps saying “it’s (what she’d decided it was two months before)” and cursing everybody out, and the best neonatal specialist is in that other hospital, and they’re going to have to work with her, so in case it really is bad better if she gets the news from someone else and can’t blame a local doc for whatever it is. (The lack of breath if you tried to read that without stopping is intended; next time take a break). The neonatal specialist takes one look at the current ultrasound and says “that ain’t nothing, one in a thousand cases and most people never even find out they’ve got anything funky.” The kid is getting treated for it, but well… once we heard the details on the actual diagnosis, Mom made me promise that I would never, ever, tell The Nephew’s parents about great-grandma’s funky kidney. The one that she found out about when she was 53. The great-grandma who died at 96 in her sleep and the official diagnosis was “old age”, who had been deaf for the last couple years but didn’t have diabetes or high blood pressure or anything. Mom doesn’t want SiL to be able to use great-grandma’s genes as a throwing weapon, you see. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907/31 "2006-12-29T18:59:58Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] Fortunately, supernatural malignancies don’t show on our puny X-Ray equipment. You’d need an Ectoplasmograph for that, and they won’t break that out until they’ve ruled out a garden-variety absorbed twin.\ [/QUOTE] I have to say, I would probably go back to working in a lab if I got to be an Ectoplasmograph Technician. “Okay, we’ll just turn the lights out…wait, there they go on their own.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907/32 "2006-12-30T01:27:20Z")
An x-ray tech once told my mom that she “Probably had cancer.” Turns out the tech hadn’t even yet seen the x-rays and they were only assisting another x-ray tech that took the x-rays. My mom was fine, btw. I don’t know why she didn’t even complain. Usually she would snap over something like that… but her reasoning was “I just don’t care because I’m healthy. Thank God.” ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907/33 "2006-12-31T22:29:05Z")
Okay, **Larry** , we’re all waiting with bated breath to hear about your testicles - where are you? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907/34 "2007-01-04T02:55:52Z")
So **Larry** … how about those nuts? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907/35 "2007-01-04T04:28:20Z")
[QUOTE=hajario] Reminds me of a story that happened to me earlier this year. I went to see a urologist preliminary appointment for a vasectomy. I was his first appointment after his two week vacation. He had me drop trau and then put on a pair of gloves. He grabbed a hold of the boys and then about a second later yelled “Whoa” and threw his hands in the air. This man sees about ten schlongs in a typical day, what the hell would make him react in such surprise? After what seemed like an eternity he said, “Spider!!” Apparently a spider had made a home in his glove box while he was on vacation. After twenty plus years of practice, he said that that was a first. [/QUOTE] For a minute there I thought you meant he found a spider on your boys. :eek: I think I am going to have nightmares now … I might have to make the boyfriend shave so no spiders can hide down there. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907/36 "2007-01-04T04:41:46Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] For a minute there I thought you meant he found a spider on your boys. :eek: [/QUOTE] Me too! Imagine being in my position and thinking that. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907/37 "2007-01-04T05:02:52Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] For a minute there I thought you meant he found a spider on your boys. :eek: [/QUOTE] That’s a clear case of a-racked-naphobia. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907/38 "2007-01-04T06:37:13Z")
Arach-nad-phobia? ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907/39 "2007-01-04T07:57:47Z")
A-sack-naphobia! ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907/40 "2007-01-04T18:35:24Z")
[QUOTE=EJsGirl] So **Larry** … how about those nuts? [/QUOTE] Inquiring minds wanna know. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-ipu-let-the-x-ray-tech-simply-have-a-warped-sense-of-humour/385907.md?page=3)