Blow Smoke Up Your Ass!!!

[wa3zrm]

Tobacco Smoke Enemas (1750s – 1810s)
The tobacco enema was used to infuse tobacco smoke into a patient’s rectum for various medical purposes, primarily the resuscitation of drowning victims. A rectal tube inserted into the anus was connected to a fumigator and bellows that forced the smoke towards the rectum. The warmth of the smoke was thought to promote respiration, but doubts about the credibility of tobacco enemas led to the popular phrase “blow smoke up one’s ass.”

[Ainkor]

And we think that people are strange for what they shove in themselves nowadays?

At least now its mostly for fun not crackpot medicine :P

[lxskllr]

I saw a website with quack patent medicines and inventions once; I wish I could remember where. They seemed to have a strange fascination with the ass. You could cure almost anything if you went in through the back side :^D

[Ainkor]

Here is another interesting link that shows how little we knew about medicine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria

[derango1]

Good Stuff! Never knew where that phrase came from.

[MrSnusNSnuff]

Here is another interesting link that shows how little we knew about medicine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria

I maintain that Gynecology was not invented to help women, but to help male doctors look at vaginas and touch them - which I think is awesome (unless you have a 500 lb. patient).

[Ainkor]

I maintain that Gynecology was not invented to help women, but to help male doctors look at vaginas and touch them - which I think is awesome (unless you have a 500 lb. patient).

As a teenager I thought that would be the best job ever. Luckily, I didn't attempt to be a vag-ologist.

I could imagine a day when a 18 year old incredibly hot chic came in for an exam that it would just be another day at the office. That would be a sad day.

[sagedil]

Sort of, kinda related.

About 8 years ago, I worked as a Supervisor in Adam and Eve's call center here in NC. Yeah, all the pictures of naked breasts posted everywhere at work was kinda cool. Always made me laugh at remembering all the sexual harassment workshops I had ever been made to go to. And my most favorite part of the job was interviewing applicants. These were mostly young women, 18 - 20 years old usually. I would find the most explicit catalog cover we had, put it into an envelope, and we would go into this small room. After a few minutes of small talk, i would ask them if they knew exactly what we did, and then pull out the catalog and stick it right in front of them and ask them to look through it.

I would then sit back and watch their faces, secretly smiling at the thought that only here could I EVER get away with doing something like that in an interview.

But I came to hate that job. Making sex your work really screws with the whole thing. i found i was SO much happier having that part of my life completely separate from your work. Yeah, there were perks. I got amazing discounts and got to meet every porn star who came through there. But was grateful when I was screwed by the call center director and fired (two days after a review that was mostly glowing in fact) I reminded him of his son (something he told me every other day) and he hated his son.

But I was grateful to be free, the company fell over themselves making sure I got unemployment immediately.

[Ainkor]

These were mostly young women, 18 - 20 years old usually. I would find the most explicit catalog cover we had, put it into an envelope, and we would go into this small room. After a few minutes of small talk, i would ask them if they knew exactly what we did, and then pull out the catalog and stick it right in front of them and ask them to look through it.

Wait a minute, you mean you can't do that in an interview?

I am so ****ed....

[sagedil]

No, that is generally NOT recommended at most companies. But tell me how it goes for you. :lol:

[sheilalynn]

Sort of, kinda related.

About 8 years ago, I worked as a Supervisor in Adam and Eve's call center here in NC.

Uh oh...wondering if you ever saw any of the mail orders while you worked there...cuz of friends of mine who order from there, yeah, friends of mine! :P