# Welcome to my new colleague...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [December 9, 2002, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386 "2002-12-09T00:02:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386/41 "2002-12-09T17:33:34Z")
Anyone check out her CV?
Lots of routine stuff, then this was in there as well
**Awards, Recognition, and Charitable Activities (partial listing)**
Martinsville Men’s Roundtable Community Service Award 2000
\*\*Most-requested speeches \*\*
How to manage a high stress career and still have a decent sex life
Wonder if those 2 are related?
I also love how the site has instructions on how to save, enlarge or make any of her photos into your computer’s wallpaper. Whew! I was afraid I would have to view her photos only while on line!
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386/42 "2002-12-09T17:43:22Z")
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ohmigod
ohmigod
ohmigod
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I can’t believe it!! I get to post the link to her [Swimsuit Calendar!](http://www.drvaughn.com/shop-cal1.htm)
Tears of joy are filling my eyes. Is [this](http://www.drvaughn.com/HiDef/2002-Calendar1_Lrg.jpg) or is this not the very image of Classic Amateur Polaroid Porn, rated PG for College Kid Losers who are too embarrassed to walk into WaldenBooks and buy a copy of Playboy?
She donates all proceeds from the calendar to charity, but she doesn’t say what charity.
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> By the way, Dr. Vaughan signs the calendars with a pen, not a machine. If you would like her to write a special note to a specific person (you or a friend, if it’s a gift), please provide the personalized message you want in the “Other notes and instructions” field at checkout.
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> If you want a personalized note on the calendar, please put the message in the “Other notes and instructions” block on the order blank. Dr. Vaughan will write just about anything you compose, as long as it isn’t profane or hurtful. (She’ll clean it up to PG-13.)
I bet. “Dear Dr. Vaughn, I am a Sophomore Loser from whom women run screaming, would you please write ‘To my angelic stud muffin’…”
And no wonder she doesn’t think bras are important, she’s got herself a coupla nice [Honda Civics](http://www.drvaughn.com/HiDef/2001-Calendar_Lrg.jpg) there,
- snerk \*…
And yes, she apparently really does think that bras cause breast cancer, and no, Guin, there’s no link at all between what kind of clothes you wear and what kind of cancer you get.
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> I like my breasts. I’m going to do everything I can to avoid ever having breast cancer. One thing I do to avoid breast cancer is something I don’t do: I don’t wear a bra.
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> If you stop wearing your bra today, in 30 days your breasts will be firmer and sag less. They will be less painful before your next period. In three months the tender lumps and bumps (fibrocystic breast disease) that many women have, usually will start disappearing.
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> In six months, when you go for your exam, your doctor will ask: “What are you doing? Your breasts are soooo much better!” Tell the doctor you threw your bras away. The doctor probably won’t believe you. So, just look and feel for yourself. Trust your own body.
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> Beyond the fact that my nipples still point straight ahead, another reason I’m glad that I haven’t worn a bra for years is that I believe bras contribute to the development of breast cancer. (This statement is going to get me into trouble. That’s OK. I can handle it. It’s for a good cause.) My family history is loaded with women who have had breast cancer.
This is all such complete bullshit.
Doctor J, can’t you do something professionally to call her on this? Doesn’t this make her a “quack” or something, if she’s telling her patients that they can prevent breast cancer by not wearing a bra?
Not to mention telling women that in 6 months without a bra, their breasts will look “better”. Gravity being what it is, I can’t imagine that working at all. Isn’t she laying herself open to a bunch of malpractice lawsuits down the road, from “marginally saggy” women who put away the bra and are now “definitely saggy”?
And the “Public Appearances” link is just pathetic. Look, she had her picture taken with Helen Gurley Brown! another bizarre-looking female person.
> **[Dr. Vaughn DAOM](http://www.drvaughndaom.com/)**
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> Some of the earliest memories I have are of wishing to have the knowledge and tools to heal others around me. In my early teens, I began taking classes on herbal medicine around town and read...
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### Author:  [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386/43 "2002-12-09T17:43:27Z")
Could someone please tell me why in **percypercy’s** second link she’s mowing down turkeys with a tractor?
This woman reminds me of a certain doctor in this town that claims to be an “allergist”. I put it in quotes, because basically the guy’s a whacko and doesn’t deserve to really have the title. For a fee, he will test you for allergies, and then send you to his personal pharmacy for all your allergy related needs. :rolleyes: He told my mother’s best friend that she was allergic to fingerprints.
_ **FINGERPRINTS** _, people. I swear. The worst part is that he has charmed her so well that she won’t consider going to another allergist for a second opinion. She wears gloves all the time. Wouldn’t she be giving herself a rash? Aren’t there fingerprints inside the glove? She gave me the hairy eyeball when I asked her that one.
God bless all the good doctors, who are only out there to really help people.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386/44 "2002-12-09T17:45:01Z")
I’m just guessing these are not work-happy links here?
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### Author:  [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386/45 "2002-12-09T17:51:52Z")
Eh, Depends on work. She is “clothed” in all the links, albeit just barely…
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### Author:  [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386/46 "2002-12-09T17:52:45Z")
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> Women (and in some societies, men) have been wearing high heels since the pyramids were built. Anything the species has been doing that long must have some survival benefit.
This lady is a doctor?!!:eek:
By this logic prostitution is healthy and has a great survival benifit. Geez, talk about a logical fallacy. Is she naturally a blonde? (ok, going to get some flack for this one, it is a joke fwiw)
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386/47 "2002-12-09T18:16:28Z")
It’s okay, Ethel, no porn, it’s all rated PG, she’s wearing teeny bikinis or tanktops. Mainly the pix are _creepy_, the way Michael Jackson is creepy (good comparison, whoever said that…)
The more I keep browsing her website, the stranger it all gets. We are in the presence of Weird URL greatness here, folks.
> **[Dr. Vaughn DAOM](http://www.drvaughndaom.com/)**
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> Some of the earliest memories I have are of wishing to have the knowledge and tools to heal others around me. In my early teens, I began taking classes on herbal medicine around town and read...
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> Despite her busy schedule, she has become her community’s best-known activist, helping raise about $1-million for charitable causes in the past dozen years.
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> If her name or her face seems familiar, perhaps it’s because she’s the doctor USA Today discovered when the newspaper made a nationwide search for “Erin Brockovich” look-alikes. (Or dress-alikes.)
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> In the Spring of 2000, the newspaper asked its readers to nominate women they knew who were professionally successful, and dressed like Erin Brockovich.
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> (If you didn’t see the film, Erin Brockovich — a paralegal who helped her law firm win a multi-million dollar lawsuit in California — defied convention by wearing miniskirts and spike high heels to work.)
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> In early April, 2000, USA Today paired Dr. Vaughan with Julia Roberts, who starred in the film. Writers Craig Wilson and Maria Fuente dubbed her, “the Erin Brockovich of rural medicine.”
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> In the weeks and months following, she was interviewed by the major networks in the U.S. and the U.K., and by dozens of newspapers, magazines, and radio talk shows. The Tabloid Globe said, “She makes Julia Roberts look like a schoolmarm.” The Roanoke Times called her “Dr. Va-va-va-Vaughan.
Dr. Va-va-va-Vaughan on workplace dress codes.
> **[Dr. Vaughn DAOM](http://www.drvaughndaom.com/)**
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> Some of the earliest memories I have are of wishing to have the knowledge and tools to heal others around me. In my early teens, I began taking classes on herbal medicine around town and read...
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> These days, I wear pretty much what I darned well please. But I own my own medical practice, so I don’t have to answer to a Human Resources department. For the record, I don’t wear bikinis to the office (but I do at home, almost every day). To work, I normally wear either a dress or a skirt-and-blouse. I don’t wear the standard “doctor uniform,” a white lab coat. On Casual Fridays in the summer, I have been known to wear shorts.
This is evidently what she wears.
Picture of Dr. Va-va-va-Vaughan with a patient. Oh. My. God.
> **[Dr. Vaughn DAOM](http://www.drvaughndaom.com/)**
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> Some of the earliest memories I have are of wishing to have the knowledge and tools to heal others around me. In my early teens, I began taking classes on herbal medicine around town and read...
Oh, yes, this is advice that I want my daughters to take to heart. “Dress like the Dean’s wife from _Animal House_, and you’ll have success in the workplace…”
_Every single one_ of the Medical FAQs links on her website, even the ones on fibromyalgia and high blood pressure (and don’t get me started on the “Prostate Exams” picture), has a picture with her mostly-naked body, with her tits prominently featured, although sometimes it’s just her crotch or her ass. What is her _problem_? Geez.
Forty years of Women’s Liberation seem to have whooshed right over Elizabeth’s head, poor wight. She seems absolutely determined to have Society in general, and men in particular, value her by her tits. I pity her deeply.
Golly. DoctorJ, you have my complete and utter sympathy. Can a female be a maroon? 'Cause Dr. Va-va-va-Vaughan sure is.
She also advocates starting women on hormones at the very earliest opportunity, even if they’re in their 30s.
> **[Dr. Vaughn DAOM](http://www.drvaughndaom.com/)**
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> Some of the earliest memories I have are of wishing to have the knowledge and tools to heal others around me. In my early teens, I began taking classes on herbal medicine around town and read...
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> I’m astonished at how often perimenopausal women are being treated with antidepressants even antipsychotics and or high dose birth control pills when what they need are subtle adjustments in their hormones.
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> I’ve found undiagnosed perimenopausal symptoms in women as young as their early 30s. Especially if they’ve had their tubes tied. Yes: You can experience some symptoms of menopause long before age 50.
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> No matter what your age, modern medicine is more apt to tell you “It’s all in your head” rather than “Let me help you with a hormone replacement or supplementation program.” That’s sad.
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> If you are savvy and ask your doctor to run a blood test to see if you’re perimenopausal, the doctor will probably discount your request. You’re too young. If you insist and the doctor runs an FSH (follicle stimulating hormone) test, it will probably be normal. The doctor did the test; the doctor was right; you are wrong. You’re not “there” yet. The doctor told you so.
> Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
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> The FSH test is a very late sign of being menopausal. It’s almost useless for women who are still having any periods. The test to get is hormone levels on or about the 21st day after the 1st day of your period. (The first day that you start bleeding is day 1 of your cycle. Get the test 3 weeks from that day. This is when your estrogen and progesterone should both be elevated if they are working in concert together.) As your ovaries age they aren’t as coordinated as they used to be. So you start getting symptoms of estrogen excess and/or progesterone deficiency.
Isn’t that against accepted medical practice, to get those hormone supplements a-going as soon as she thinks she’s a little menopausal?
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### Author:  [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386/48 "2002-12-09T18:54:59Z")
Just wanted to enlarge one of the photos from **Duck Duck Goose’s** post.
I think it might be [porn](http://www.drvaughn.com/HiDef/2000-1126-G05_Lrg.jpg).
😃
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### Author:  [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386/49 "2002-12-09T19:03:00Z")
Well, I’ll just be off to get the bleach for my\*\* FREEKIN’ EYES, \*\*having just clicked that link. Then I’ll get a power drill for my forehead in hopes that some home lobotomy action will remove that image from my brain.
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### Author:  [@glarGH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glarGH)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386/50 "2002-12-09T19:18:44Z")
OH DEAR sweet jesus.
Its horrible… yet… fascinating…
make it stop… please make it stop… i’ll be good. JUst MAKE IT STOP.
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### Author:  [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386/51 "2002-12-09T19:21:32Z")
Instructions on how to make one of her images your desktop background? _shudder_
Somebody needs to give this lady a reality check.
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### Author:  [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386/52 "2002-12-09T19:37:21Z")
So…if she thinks wearing bras cause cancer, why does she wear bikini tops? Isn’t that like a swimsuit bra?
SpazCat, pointing out contradictions for quite a while now.
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386/53 "2002-12-09T21:25:03Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose \*
> \*\*It’s okay, Ethel, no porn, it’s all rated PG, she’s wearing teeny bikinis or tanktops. Mainly the pix are _creepy_, the way Michael Jackson is creepy (good comparison, whoever said that…)
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That was me.
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### Author:  [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386/54 "2002-12-09T22:10:58Z")
I’m thinking of a phrase, and that phrase is:
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Can I get a witness?
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2002, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386/55 "2002-12-09T22:48:57Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Skerri \*
> \*\*Could someone please tell me why in **percypercy’s** second link she’s mowing down turkeys with a tractor?
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Ah, but those are not mere turkeys, but something much more exotic: Guineafowl. Of, course, it would be much more appropriate if she had something that said “quack, quack, quack.”
It’s porn, all right, but it’s soft porn. In the sense of making most male observers go instantly soft.
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### Author:  [@Gomez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gomez)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2002, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386/56 "2002-12-10T00:19:22Z")
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> _originally posted by mhendo_
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> Wife: You’re late again! Where have you been?
> Husband: I had to stop and see a prostitute.
> Wife: Don’t try that old line on me. You’ve been to the doctor, haven’t you? HAVEN’T YOU?
> Husband: (plaintively) I’m sorry, i just had to have one more procedure. I’ll never go there again.
Oh, _thank you_ **mhendo!!** You’ve no _idea_ how badly I needed a good laugh today. Fifteen minutes later and I’m still smiling broadly 😃
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2002, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386/57 "2002-12-10T01:36:49Z")
\*"In six months, when you go for your exam, your doctor will ask: “What are you doing? Your breasts are soooo much better!” \*
I would avoid this doctor too.
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### Author:  [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2002, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386/58 "2002-12-10T01:46:25Z")
So I’m guessing the patients who would use this doctor are the same ones who could afford to pay cash for any hospital admission whatsoever, without having to worry about claiming it on their medical insurance.
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2002, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386/59 "2002-12-10T02:05:17Z")
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> _Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose_
> This is evidently what she wears.
> Picture of Dr. Va-va-va-Vaughan with a patient. Oh. My. God.
> [http://www.drvaughn.com/HiDef/2000-0418-A14\_Lrg.jpg](http://www.drvaughn.com/HiDef/2000-0418-A14_Lrg.jpg)
Sweet Holy Chattering Jesus, I cannot stop staring at this picture. It’s like a Saturday Evening Post cover from an alternate Universe where Normal Rockwell is a dirty old man. I’m still staring, mouth agape. What’s wrong with me? Why can’t I stop looking at it?
Some selected gems from the informative Website I felt compelled to share:
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> The 1996 calendars—there were several—are not available. If you have one, autographed, you have a valuable collector’s item: The first swimsuit calendar ever published by a licensed physician.
Sadly, [nothing](http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&query=dr.+vaughan&cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&ht=1&from=R10&currdisp=2&itemtimedisp=1&st=2&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&BasicSearch=) on eBay.
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> If you believe the media, the reason I have so many male patients is because of my legs. That’s not what the men tell me. They say they come to me because I give a sensitive, gentle prostate exam — and I have the smallest index finger in town.
Remind me to complement my own Doctor about that the next time I’m in for a checkup.
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> If I am known by my peers in the profession for one skill more than any other, it is in the area of diagnosis. I can’t explain it—perhaps it’s because I’m descended from generations of physicians on both sides of my family—but for some reason, I seem to have been blessed with an enhanced ability to make intuitive diagnoses, even when initial observations suggest something else.
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### Author:  [@jujuju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jujuju)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2002, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-my-new-colleague/141386/60 "2002-12-10T03:14:04Z")
damn, damn, damn, DAMN!!!
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You are not permitted to access the URL [http://www.drvaughn.com/HiDef/2000-0418-A14\_Lrg.jpg](http://www.drvaughn.com/HiDef/2000-0418-A14_Lrg.jpg) due to the policy of your organization.
If this is an error, then you should contact your local firewall administrator.
hell, i even know a couple of actual porn sites i can get through to, but apparently she’s THAT bad.
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