Smoke 'em If You Got 'em

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Yaggy, you keep smokin' and you'll end up in one of those! >:-(

Lynne

Thu 01-19-2006

What is that used for, Lynnie?

The cigarette?

Lordy that's almost sick!

great photo!

Somehow I'm surprised he got out of that thing with his hair still. Or am I the only one who thinks about torturing the one she loves?

Serrena

Thu 01-19-2006

Lyric, if I was you I'd be gettin' a tad nervous hereabouts. =8-o

Lynne

Thu 01-19-2006

*Puuurrrrrrsssss*

But I like my manacles and the cage she makes me sleep in is wonderful.
Unless I am really good and eat all my dinner broken glass and all. I get to sleep on a sheet at the foot of the bed.

Lyric

Thu 01-19-2006

LYRIC! How many times do I have to tell you ... that's between YOU and ME! There will be NO more talking to outsiders for you .... back to your cage. I changed the newspapers and everything.

Sorry ... she's usually more careful.

Serrena

Thu 01-19-2006

Yes, Mistress Serrena.
I'm very sorry.
I will be right over to play footstool for the rest of the evening.

Lyric

Thu 01-19-2006

Great Pic, that looks like a stunt my daughter would pull.

awyper

Fri 01-20-2006

full, rich flavor... delivered twenty time a pack!

yaggy

Fri 01-20-2006

so true,so true.

How about a game of find Yaggy's baggie?

drew

Fri 01-20-2006

That's kind of a funny shaped ciggy there, yaggy, unless my old eyes deceive me. =8-o

Lynne

Fri 01-20-2006

Nah Lynne, it looks to long to be one of those.

psychadellic one

Sun 01-22-2006

I'm going to guess that's a Clove, or a very nicely wrapped joint?
Or I need new glasses and it's a normal one, but as PO said, "it looks to long to be one of those"
Hmm..!

Poisonousxbeauty

Sun 01-22-2006

Is that a spirit you encountered while going into this majestic hospital? Poor soul couldnt bear the afterlife and has now returned to his trusty metal device.

andrew

Sun 01-22-2006

Yep. That's Yaggy, our pet Zombie. Some how and I am not quite sure how he does it.. Must be Zombie Voodoo Magic. But he lives in all the different sites tht you see pictures of.
It's only just recently that he has let anyone take a snappy of him because we were having to feed him the blood of virgins to restore his handsome good looks.
Needless to say, that took us a while, as there aren't many virgins anymore.

But no, he's not just a spirit he's been reanimated to accompany Mr. Motts everywhere for protection from all the other ghosts that live in these buildings.

Lyric

Mon 01-23-2006

I bet the mirror is so they can look outside. gads..how awfull that must have been

missouriman

Sat 01-28-2006

People can watch TV too. I was in a rehab hospital where thay reversed the picture tube so it would look right.

Henry L

Mon 02-06-2006

Henry,

It's great that the staff took that much care to make your TV viewing easier. You're right - it would be tough to try to watch everything "backwards". I have done that several times when I have been watching the TV while I am waiting for someone and I caught the TV out of the mirror, and it's somewhat disconcerting to see everything backwards. You don't realize how you expect everything to be shown the "right way" instead of mirror-reversed. :-)

Lynne

Mon 02-06-2006

I can imagine that it would be pretty dis-orienting!

Peaches

Mon 02-06-2006

It's hard but when you have to do it so often you get used to it.

Hennry L

Tue 02-07-2006

wasn't there really an anti-smoking comercial back in the late 60s-early 70s that showed someone smoking in an iron lung?

heidianne

Sat 03-25-2006

Someone give that poor man a pillow!

Merissa

Mon 04-17-2006

I thought it was worse than that. I was thinking it was a place where people had to smoke so that their smoke will only affect them. As in banned from everywhere but that can.

Sebastian

Mon 04-24-2006

This picture is actually more sobering than any of the "Don't Smoke." comercials you see on t.v. now.

Ladyhawke04008

Tue 06-13-2006

Lynne - its a normal cigg actually, the ash just hasnt been tapped off, trust me, i know these things >_< hehe im a second generation hippie,

Mary Jayne

Mon 06-19-2006

Dang! I was looking for a little excitement, romance, and glamour in my old age. :-(

Lynne

Mon 06-19-2006

its ok lynne, we still love you, and besides you can love weed, but weed will never love you back, once again trust me,

P.S. can i be in the opacity family that youse guys seem to have here?

Mary Jayne

Mon 06-19-2006

Plenty of room for more - plenty of room. Come on over to the Forum and fire one up with us. :-)

Lynne

Mon 06-19-2006

There are many different kinds of bravery. Hurrah to you Yaggy! Too confining for me!

reddll

Wed 06-21-2006

One of the more obsolete creations of the time. The iron lung was nothing more than a large air tube. It really did nothing to help the patient. Where did you find someone to pose in that photo, considering it is more than likely that someone died in that tube.

Xander

Sun 07-30-2006

Xander,

If you keep on reading you will see that we have a contributor to this site who actually used one of these very machines and still uses a modified one at night to help him breathe. There is plenty of information out there on how helpful (in some cases absolutely necessary) these machines were/are to keep people properly oxygenated. If you cannot breathe sufficiently on your own, an iron lung or some such similar device less bulky (but there are still people who need these large ones) is absolutely essential to keep you alive - no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

Lynne

Sun 07-30-2006

The image you are thinking of was from Cracked or Mad magazine: It was a spoof on the Cigarette coupons that used to be offered with packs: Save so many, and you could "buy" things: A jacket, luggage, etc.Anyway, this cartoon had a faux catalog with things like "Your very own personalized Iron lung" for 1,000,000 coupon points (cause at that point, you'll need it). The image shown in the "catalog" was almost exactly like that picture.
I remember it well: It started a scary fascination for me with Iron Lung machines.

Bobalouche

Tue 01-16-2007

you probably know this now, but it looks like an iron lung. I'm not sure what they're used for but if they do what their name says, they replace your lungs for breathing. and stuff.. :|

emilie

Wed 04-18-2007

Yeah, my school headmaster was in one of these as a child.
I have a Time Magazine picture book and people use to decorate their iron lungs with pictures and stuff ( I thought that was pretty cool)

Rickman

Sat 06-30-2007

Am I the only one who got the bejeezuse scared out of them, then laughed when they saw the smoke

The Kid

Thu 11-15-2007

this iron lung was also used for people that had polio as thier lungs were not developing properly

rick390

Sun 01-06-2008

oh look there's a mirror so I can see how wonderful I must look...seeing as how I must be in good health

although this is a hospital to treat tuberculosis patients...

Prodigium

Sat 10-25-2008

That better not be a dead person!

Daniel R.

Tue 11-24-2009

Has anyone ever seen the movie "Crybaby" with Johnny Depp? One of the main characters' mother is in an iron lung and she smokes like a chimney.

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