Transcript 11/10/2009 Barbara Viola

[mom2five]

Ignore him, Kiki. Go to the kitchen and open up a can of Soylent Green.....

lb13

That stuff comes in cans? I usually buy the Soylent Green Snack Wafers in a box.

Mmmmmm, Marrow Newtons....

lb13

How about some Man-wich! Yum! (Has anyone here seen Zombieland???)

[tanstaafl2]

It's the staff of Hermes -- a staff with two snakes twining around it. I don't know why, but it's generally associated with the

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medical profession

. --Bob

It came to have that association here in the US in part because it was adopted as the symbol of the Army Medical Corps in 1902. Although the caduceus has been around on Army uniforms well before that to at least the Civil War when enlisted hospital stewards wore a green badge with a caduceus on it.

The symbol more closely and accurately associated with medicine is a staff with a single "snake" and no wings that is the Rod of Asklepius (seen more commonly outside the US such as in the seal of the WHO). Hippocrates was a follower of Asclepius. Although it may have originally been a worm and not a snake. The dracunculus worm would be removed from patients bodies by winding it up on a stick and so it is at least theorized that Greek physicians of the time would advertise their profession by using a picture of the worm wrapped around the stick.

The Public Health Service also used the caduceus as part of their seal in the late 1800's although this might have been more in line with the association of the caduceus with commerce as it was the Merchant Marine Hospital Service at that time and thus had an association with both medicine and commerce.

And which one is this?

I believe it is the symbol for the new panacea of government run healthcare.

[Jeemie]

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I'm sorry- I see this picture, and I think this:

[earendel]

Barbara Viola
Springfield, PA

$500 (Entertainers):
Moe, Larry, and Curly were the best-known members of a legendary comedy team called "The Three" what?
A. Chumps B. Suckers
C. Stooges D. Guys fixing your transmission

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C. Stooges :08

I realize that "D" is the "joke" answer but Manny, Moe and Jack are the Pep Boys, so that could have thrown someone off.

Nihil obstat®.