# The Atheist In The Foxhole **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 13, 2006, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937 "2006-12-13T06:41:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JimOfAllTrades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@JimOfAllTrades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimOfAllTrades)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937/41 "2006-12-13T23:43:08Z")
**Czarcasm** , I’m sad to hear about the problems, but glad to hear the lemur was chased out successfully. I hope everything continues to go well. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937/42 "2006-12-14T00:03:01Z")
I’ve never been “in the foxhole” myself, but my mom (the Catholic) used to tease me when I got really sick, because in between the retching, I’d be moaning, “Oh, Jesus! Oh, God!” “See?” she’d say, “When the going gets tough, you start praying!” “I wasn’t praying,” I’d tell her, “I was _cursing_.” Anyway, glad you’re okay, **Czarcasm**. Try to avoid those cerebral rodents in the future, okay? ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937/43 "2006-12-14T00:39:25Z")
[QUOTE=Czarcasm] By the time I woke up, both My Beloved and my sainted mother were by my bedside, and I had tubes coming out of me in four different areas(first one to guess which four areas correctly wins a free beer at The Twilight Room down the street). [/QUOTE] Head, throat, arm and johnson. Glad they fixed ya up right, amigo! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937/44 "2006-12-14T00:44:38Z")
[QUOTE=JustAnotherGeek] BTW: Right wrist, dingly-dangly-bit, schnoz (most likely to stomache), mouth (most likely to lungs). Although, if I can take a second guess, wrist, dingly-dangly, mouth, and one drain-pipe inna da head? Inquiring minds do want to know! 😃 [/QUOTE] First guess, two right. second guess, three right. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937/45 "2006-12-14T00:47:41Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] Head, throat, arm and johnson. Glad they fixed ya up right, amigo! [/QUOTE] Three right, and who says they got it right, amigo? I used to eat right-handed, but my Beloved says that for the past month and a half, I’ve been eating left-handed. Weird. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937/46 "2006-12-14T00:59:46Z")
My parents always had a subscription to _Reader’s Digest._ If it wasn’t every issue, then it was most of them, there was some “Only through the miracle of prayer did I survive this brush with death.” story. Three times in my life, I’ve been fairly certain death was only seconds away. Twice while piloting aircraft, once while driving a car. Prayer never occured to me. I think if it had, I might well not be alive to be typing this response. Instead of praying, I focused all of my attention and motor skills on staying alive, which obviously worked. If I had been a believer and prayed, and somehow come through, I guess it would affirm my faith. I wonder how affirmed all those potential _Reader’s Digest_ authors were when they realized that they were going to dye, prayer be damned? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937/47 "2006-12-14T01:59:59Z")
[QUOTE=Czarcasm] I used to eat right-handed, but my Beloved says that for the past month and a half, I’ve been eating left-handed. Weird. :dubious: [/QUOTE] Tell 'em you’re English! 🙂 Not even going to guess about your tubes. Just glad you’re OK. By the way, you can still drink beer, right? Next time, they’re on me. BTW, can you now play the piano? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937/48 "2006-12-14T02:42:45Z")
[QUOTE=Seven] How did you get a bloody lemur in your brain? Do they know the cause or was it just one of those things? [/QUOTE] [Ahnuld] **It’s not a lemuh!** [/Ahnuld] ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937/49 "2006-12-14T02:45:51Z")
But back on topic, **Czarcasm** , I’m very glad you’re okay after what must have been a scary experience and a rough couple of months. Take care, and remember to get your brain checked out or retuned every 3,000 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937/50 "2006-12-14T02:55:05Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] Well, I figured guessing both wrists was a stretch. **Unless both wrists** **was right** … [/QUOTE] I think two right wrists might have been an indicator that something other than a monkeyclot was amiss. My guess is nose, wrist, talleywhacker, and bee-butt. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937/51 "2006-12-14T02:57:48Z")
Good to hear you’re on the way back. It’s tough, but all the way back is possible. The husband of a high school classmate of mine had a serious stroke that took away one side of his body. After he followed a rigorous physical (and mental) therapy regime rigorously, you wouldn’t know that there had ever been anything wrong. He really worked hard at it. And I’m with you, and others. It never crossed my ming to ask for the help of God in any tight spot. Why should it have? I have the most serious reservations about the existence of any such Being. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937/52 "2006-12-14T02:58:53Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] My guess is nose, wrist, talleywhacker, and bee-butt. [/QUOTE] Two right. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937/53 "2006-12-14T03:07:24Z")
[QUOTE=Czarcasm] Two right. [/QUOTE] Dammit. Wrist, nose, heat-seaking moisture missle, and forearm. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937/54 "2006-12-14T03:08:33Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] Dammit. Wrist, nose, heat-seaking moisture missle, and forearm. [/QUOTE] Three right! ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937/55 "2006-12-14T04:18:25Z")
**Czarcasm** , I am glad to hear that you’ve successfully postponed the inevitable. Remember, whatever doesn’t kill you just comes back to ache like hell on cold, damp days. 😃 Best wishes for a full and speedy recovery. Tubes - left wrist - 2 IVs, nose - nasal canula, Mr. Happy - Foley catheter. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937/56 "2006-12-14T05:42:32Z")
[QUOTE=Kevbo] I wonder how affirmed all those potential _Reader’s Digest_ authors were when they realized that they were going to dye, prayer be damned? [/QUOTE] They thought, “that’s okay - the color will come out of my skin eventually.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937/57 "2006-12-14T06:54:30Z")
**Czarcasm** , hey, that’s kinda scarey! Glad to know that you are okay and had good doctors. Merry Holidays to you and a much better New Year! I’m rather fond of Mankind myself and that includes those who are atheists and those who are not. Compassion and acts of kindness are exactly what it’s all about either way. I just wish I could remember that when I’m pissed. ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937/58 "2006-12-14T12:04:35Z")
So one of these tubes is definitely in your nether regions?? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937/59 "2006-12-14T12:35:39Z")
[QUOTE=Lobelia Overhill] So one of these tubes is definitely in your nether regions?? [/QUOTE] yes. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937/60 "2006-12-14T15:12:15Z")
OK, I _think_ I’ve got it figured out: Wrist Dingly-Do-Dong Head Forearm [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atheist-in-the-foxhole/383937.md?page=4)