July 14, 2006

Top 5 Cop Outs


As per usual, I have a wonderful, pithy post just languishing in my drafts folder that I do not have the time or the energy to flesh out this fair afternoon. It is Friday, it is the summer, and half of my office was out today anyhow. Never fear, I shall return in full force next week - and have some of my own Fridays off (we alternate Fridays off - four between July 1 and September 1).

For now, I shall leave you with the Top 5 Annoying but Not Life Threatening Medical Ailments:

5. Paper cut

4. Splinter

3. Anal Fissure

2. Tonsillitis

1. Urinary Tract Infection

UPDATE: 0. Genital Herpes. Because the Duchess is so right.

8 corrections:

mark prior said...

how about strained oblique? where does that rank?

Audrey. said...

Low. If you can sleep through it, it's not annoying.

the duchess said...

dude. i'm SO disappointed.

you completely forgot GENITAL HERPES, which is the all-time, number-one, annoying but not life threatening, itchy and bumpy for the rest of your goddamn life, screw you over for sleeping with a dirty cuban whore, medical ailment.

and castro, you ass, go hide in a tire.

C said...

What's an anal fissure?

Audrey. said...

Anal Fissure: See the, Bob.

Alex said...

Oh. My. God. (I had started out by typing "holy crap", and then realized what a poor choice of words it was.) How could I have been roaming the the tubes of these here internets for more than a decade without encountering the story of The Bob? That said, I don't know whether to thank you, or to cry. Both, probably. :)

Audrey. said...

I'm so glad you enjoyed Bob. He is truly a piece of internet history. There are a few other stories of similar stature - I'll try to post links to some of them in the next few days.

Alex said...

I will definitely keep checking in. Hehe.