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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 06:36 PM
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Ever have a finger jammed by a basketball...
..and then pull your finger... to relieve pressure (in the jammed knuckle)?

Why is it some things seem to work better when we are younger?

Ouch!

:eyes:
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 06:38 PM
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1. Nice post Lew Alcinder
:P
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 06:39 PM
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2. huh?
Please don't confuse me... I confuse easily. :cry:
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 06:41 PM
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5. I KNOW THAT NAME!!!!!




:hi:



lost
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 06:42 PM
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6. Oh...Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I saw him once in Dallas...very, very tall!! :hi:
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 06:47 PM
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7. Good work
:hi:
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TheCentepedeShoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 06:39 PM
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3. No, but as a kid
I got smacked in the face by an out of control ball during a donkey basketball game in KS. Double ouch.
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 06:41 PM
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4. I bet that did hurt!
My sore knuckle was from my motorcycle spill.... just got the brilliant idea, today, that pulling on my finger might relieve it.
:sarcasm:
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OhioChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 07:03 PM
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8. Yep.
Hurts like a son of a bitch no matter how old you are. :)
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 07:09 PM
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10. That's one reason I gave up playing basketball...
..that, and I am only 5' 1"!! lol
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OhioChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 07:13 PM
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13. I still love playing...
Have a hoop in the back yard. Great stress reducer. :)

5'1 and you can play? Wow...Mugsy Bogues is only 2 inches taller than you.....he went pro long ago.....don't give up! ;)
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 07:07 PM
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9. Nope. How about slamming a car door on your thumb?
Doesn't tickle...
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 07:09 PM
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11. Ooooo
I bet that hurt A LOT too! :hug:
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 07:11 PM
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12. 35 years later, and I still have a split meniscus
to remind me that a second of stupidity cannot be erased.
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 07:13 PM
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14. You made me look up what meniscus means...
THAT doesn't sound good. :-(
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 07:45 PM
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19. I hope you got the right definitinon
I forget, Spanish terminology doesn't always translate to English latin-for-latin...




The meniscus, in Spanish, is the Lunula in English...

Sorry if I confused you...
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 08:03 PM
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22. Oh, that!
No worries. I'm always confused! lol :hi:
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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 07:17 PM
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15. I remember the first time I had to reduce a dislocated finger
It was a basketball player and he jammed it pretty badly and he was also sweating profusely...it took me 4 or 5 times of grabbing his finger only to have my hand slip off before I got enough traction...THEN I wised up wrapped it in a towel and POP it was back in.

These are lessons they don't teach you in school, I guess you have to figure them out with practice
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 07:21 PM
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16. Some things just have to be learned by doing...
that seems to be my new motto, anyway! :hi:
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 07:33 PM
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17. It's happened to me.
It hurts. :hug:
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 08:02 PM
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20. Thanks bigwillq
If I can get this one, last finger to heal... well, then I can go riding again!! :hug:
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 07:45 PM
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18. No, but I did get my thumb hyperextended from one once...
somebody thought it would be a good idea to try and play soccer on the basketball field so he kicked the ball. Problem was I grabbed it right before his foot connected.

My thumb was purple for several days. And I had a violin lesson that afternoon.
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 08:02 PM
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21. omg!
Did you play the violin like that?
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 08:05 PM
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23. Nope. We decided to just go over some music theory that lesson.
Edited on Thu May-15-08 08:05 PM by DarkTirade
:P

It was on my right hand, so I just couldn't hold my bow.
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