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In retrospect, one of the most surprising things is how young they were. Alberto Salazar was 23; Dick Beardsley, 26.
At the time, though, what was near-shocking was that, with a mile to go in the 1982 Boston Marathon, the world's best marathoner had company, in the form of an aw-shucks nice guy from Minnesota. The details are still fresh: The 70-degree day. Salazar taking but a few sips of water. Impossibly thin Beardsley wearing a painter's cap and running with a sponge stuffed down the front of his shorts. Bill Rodgers falling off the pace during the relentless push through the Newton hills. Neither yielding. ("Just being so cottonpickin' stubborn," in Beardsleyese.) Beardsley stepping in a pothole and, miraculously, loosening his hamstring. Salazar pulling away, inevitably, for a three-second course-record win in 2:08:51, then needing intravenous treatment. And the anticipation that the best was yet to come.
"It was just another date for us," said the drummer on the Miles Davis album "Kind of Blue," which subsequently became the most influential jazz recording ever. Those who make history often see it as another day at the office, the work's importance coming into proper focus only as it recedes. Certainly, if you had talked to Salazar and Beardsley an hour after Boston '82, they wouldn't have said that their competitive careers—and American men's marathoning—had just peaked.
The Fall of Men
To be a competitive runner is to live in faith. This is not to suggest that running is a religion, or even a spiritual undertaking. But what impels runners out the door day after day? What creates the need to run the sixth repeat of a workout faster than the fifth, and then the seventh faster? Faith that infinitesimal changes at the cellular level are occurring that will matter four months hence; or, as the saying goes, the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Growing up, Salazar wasn't even the best runner in his family, and his form would make an apt "before" photo in a Pilates brochure. Beardsley was a mediocre high school and college runner who thought his life's work was dairy farming. Yet Salazar set an American record at 5,000 meters before he was 25, while Beardsley casually resumed running one day and soon after decided to qualify for the 1980 Olympic Marathon Trials.
Now, elucidating faith's genesis in a runner's make-up isn't a chicken-or-egg process. Any number of latent qualities find themselves on call in the first weeks of training, and they shine more brightly as the running lifestyle dampens the unneeded parts of personality. Often, the honed trait remains an integral part of the person long after the last race has been run, a fact for which Salazar and Beardsley have reason to be grateful.
In the fall of 1982, Salazar won his third New York City Marathon, but the curtain of road invincibility had been pulled back. Again he had last-mile company. The next year, he lost his first marathon in the spring at Rotterdam and placed last in the World Championships 10,000. At the 1984 Olympic Marathon Trials, the curtain was yanked further when he was outkicked for the win. "There's always one guy [who] might get you in the end," he said minutes after Pete Pfitzinger became the first American to beat him in the marathon. This wasn't the same runner who had so nonchalantly predicted and delivered a 2:09 in his debut just two-and-a-half years earlier. Three months later, running timidly from the start, Salazar placed 15th in the Olympics. It was his last race on the world stage for a decade.
"What happened was, before the World Champs in '83, I got a real bad cold that turned into bronchitis," Salazar says. "Then I had severe bronchitis. That's a precipitating factor to asthma. But I didn't know I had asthma until the early 90's, when I was wheezing on easy runs at 7:30 pace. Basically, my oxygen supply was being cut off. It just got a little worse every year. I've lost close to 45 to 50 percent of my lung function. Most world-class runners have 120 percent of a normal person's lung function. I'm at only 80 percent of normal."
In the early 90's, Salazar became one of the first public figures to talk about being on the antidepressant Prozac. He says he took it not for depression per se, but because of the anxiety levels that accompanied his then-inexplicable performance decline. In 1994, with his energy level restored enough to allow solid training, Salazar won the world's most competitive ultra, South Africa's Comrades Marathon. He talked of more ultras and sub-2:20 marathons. Instead, Salazar Phase II lasted one race.
"Three months after Comrades, I was doing bounding drills on the grass," he says. "I stepped in a hole and twisted my foot. Turns out I tore my posterior tibial tendon, but I didn't know it at the time. So I kept running. I wound up rupturing my rector femoris—I know, it sounds crazy!—and having pins put in the navicular bones in my foot. Oh, and a heel bone replacement. I run 7:00 pace every day, but my competitive days are over."
In the Monty Python skit, this is where Beardsley would say, "You're lucky! We used to pray to have pins put in our feet."
Beardsley is more willing than Salazar to consider that their duel took some irrevocable toll. "There was no way I would have run 2:08 that day if Al wasn't there with me," he says. "We just about killed each other." But Beardsley was committed to defend his title at Grandma's Marathon two months later. "There was talk of me running a world record there," he remembers. "Boy, I was really lucky just to win. I ran 2:14. It was tough to get back into training mode after Boston. I was beat up physically and mentally." Beardsley missed the '84 Trials because of Achilles surgery. "The last competition where I thought I was in good shape was the '88 Trials," he says. "I knew my competitive career at that level was coming to an end—if I didn't make the Olympics, it was time to move on to other things. That choice was made pretty easily when I couldn't see the lead pack at halfway!" Beardsley jogged to the finish in 2:27 and considered himself retired.
He was back in the running news by the fall of 1989, when a farming accident nearly cost him a leg. In the summer of 1992, he was in a car accident, and six months after that, was hit by a truck while running. Multiple back surgeries ensued, and Beardsley went back on the pain medication he had taken after the farming accident.
"I'm telling you, it was a downward spiral," he says. "My dad died in 1995 from pancreatic cancer, so I took pills to take away the hurt of not being able to do stuff to help him. Instead of taking a long hike in the woods, it was so easy to pop pills and forget about life for awhile. By September of '96, I would say I was on pain meds 90 percent of the time." By this point, however, his knee doctor had ended his prescription, and his back doctor was trying to wean Beardsley off the pills. (Beardsley hadn't told either doctor about the prescriptions he received from the other.) So Beardsley started forging prescriptions.
"On September 30, 1996, I went into a Wal-Mart pharmacy," he says. "Turns out my name was on a list for pharmacies in a 100-mile radius. When I tried to get the prescription filled, a red flag came up. The pharmacist looked at me, and he never had to say a word. I knew it was over and that I was in a lot of trouble."
Through a Glass, Darkly
At about this time, Salazar was having face-the-music moments of his own. Raised a Catholic, Salazar says that he made a personal commitment to Jesus in college, at which time he started attending meetings of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. "But I didn't realize the importance of that commitment until later," he says. "It's not that I was ashamed of my faith. I just didn't talk about it much."
By the time he won Comrades, Salazar was more vocal. In interviews, he would offer, unprompted, details of how prayer during the last 20 miles of the race helped him to finish. More broadly, he relayed his perception that his running resurrection was part of God's plan for him, so that he could use his fame as a platform for sharing his faith. To much of the P.C. running world, this was strong stuff. Salazar was like the long-lost uncle whose interest in UFOs had become just a bit too intense since you last saw him, but your memories of the good old days were so fond that it was impossible not to tolerate, even love him, albeit from a safe distance. (Others were more plainly put off—where did he get off talking about God this and God that in the same breath as praising Prozac?)
So by 1996, when his one-race ultra career was clearly not taking wings, Salazar reassessed. "We never know what God's plan is for us. I thought I was to run ultras. I was wrong—that was not his plan. It's hard to figure out what his plan is. Through prayer and faith, we can try. I know this: Things change, things happen, and all my injuries happened for a reason." Molly, Salazar's wife of 20 years, told the guy who set a world best in his second marathon that he always looked at things in too grand a manner. "She said that sometimes we can do our best in humble surroundings," he says, "quietly sharing our faith with others in everyday life."
Subtle, workable change rather than instantaneous world conversion is the thinking behind Salazar's main professional emphasis these days. He's the coach for the Oregon Project, a five-year Nike program designed to create a handful of young American men capable of running 13:20 for 5K and sub-28:00 for 10K as a springboard to world-class marathoning.
At press time, Salazar expected to have had hand-picked five to seven promising runners by this summer. The runners will live communally in Portland, OR, and won't lack for attention. "I just ran and lifted," Salazar says. "With these guys, we're going to take a comprehensive approach—mileage and workouts, sure, but also crosstraining, making them real flexible with yoga, a strength and conditioning coach, working on biomechanics, everything." (And he means everything: The houses will be outfitted with altitude devices, including one in a family room so that the runners can simulate watching TV at 12,000 feet.)
The logical follow-up, of course, is to say to Salazar that if running and lifting were enough to get him to 2:08... "There are other ways to get the requisite fitness without running 150 to 160 miles a week. Right now, that's too risky for us. You know, we only hear about the Kenyans who do that who come over here and beat us. We don't hear about the 200 guys trying to do that who never make it over. We don't have 200 potential world-class guys, so we have to be smarter and apply Western sport science.
"The guys in this program have to be on the same page as me," says Salazar, who ran within eight seconds of the world record at 10,000 meters a week and a half before Boston '82. "None of this waiting, waiting to run a marathon. What the hell are you waiting for? We'll get 'em fast at 5 and 10K, then boom! Look out! Here we come in the marathon!"
Beardsley is less conventionally religious than Salazar, but he too views the past as a prologue to his current activities.
"When I got caught that day in the pharmacy," he says, "I was thanking God. I think I was days away from going to bed at night and just not waking up in the morning." Beardsley was met by two federal drug agents who thought the quantities of the bogus prescriptions he was writing meant he was dealing. ("I was too selfish for that!" Beardsley laughs.) He told his wife, Mary, about the lie he'd been living, spent nine days in a hospital and then started treatment to overcome his addiction. Beardsley, whose parents were both alcoholics, has now been sober for more than five years. (He doesn't distinguish between booze and pills.)
"I wouldn't wish what I went through on my worst enemy," Beardsley says. "But never once did I say, 'Why is this happening to me?' There's a reason why the farm accident happened, and a reason why I survived. I talk to groups about farm safety. I know without a doubt that somebody's life has been saved because of what I went through. Same with the addiction. There's a reason I didn't die. I go back every two months to my treatment center and share my story with the people there. I tell them I've been in those chairs, thinking I didn't have a problem."
Talking is an ever-larger feature of Beardsley's life. In addition to speaking at races and to non-running groups, he's the morning DJ on a country radio station. (Suggested theme song: "It's Hard to Get a Leg Up in the World When You Almost Lose One in a Farming Accident.") Beardsley is on the air at 6 a.m. and done in time to meet clients at noon for the fishing guide service he conducts on some of the 400 lakes near his home in Detroit Lakes, MN "Fishing at the crack of dawn-that's an old wives' tale," he claims.
Despite the accidents and his schedule, Beardsley runs five to six miles a day. In the summer of 2001, he ran 2:55 at Grandma's Marathon to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his 2:09 course record victory there. "I get up at 2:45, grab the dog, and am out running at 3:00," he says. (That's 3:00 as in 3:00 a.m.) "Obviously, nobody else is up at that time. That's my time. Running is still an incredible part of my life, and a big part of my sobriety.
"I can't and don't want to run like I used to," he says. "If I run 6:15 pace at a race now, that's flying! That used to be my easy pace. People still say, 'You look so smooth when you run.' I saw pictures of me running Grandma's. Aw, man, I'm not smooth at all!
"You know, I thoroughly enjoyed running 140 miles a week, that feeling of being fine-tuned, the competition. And I know it sounds silly, but I enjoy my running as much or more than I used to. It's a different kind of enjoyment. I treasure it more now."
Last fall, Beardsley found himself with extra time, because open-water fishing season had ended and ice-fishing season had yet to start. He started running doubles and doing 90-mile weeks. Recognizing the resurfacing of his addictive personality traits—the ones that had driven him through the training necessary to challenge Salazar, the same ones that had nearly killed him—he made himself cut back.
"I realized I might get hurt," Beardsley says. "I can't afford that risk. Not a day goes by that I don't thank God that I'm still here and still sober. So I can't afford screwing something up and being unable to run for six months. When you've almost had it taken away from you, you realize how precious it is."
Scott Douglas is the co-author of Advanced Marathoning. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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This course focuses on demonstrating proficiency in basis public relations writing techniques. Additionally, focuses on the application of public relations writing techniques, creative development, construction and placement in appropriate traditional and non-traditional media outlets, audience centered messages designed to solve public relations problems. Students will be required to work with a non-profit organization for the duration of the semester as a member of a public relations team. Thus, students will refine writing skills and message placement strategies while enhancing leadership, conflict resolution, and team skills.
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Prerequisites: 60 credits and COMM2000
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Many people wonder how to cook and eat healthier foods which do not require a lot of time or money. Chances are that you have a good understanding of the basic principles of health and nutrition. But thanks to today's fast-paced lifestyles, the real challenge is practicing what you know!
Occasionally, we find ourselves resorting to "quick fixes," which gradually may become bad eating habits. Then we build up reasons, or "myths" about why we cannot eat better. See if you recognize any of the common "myths" listed below. You may be surprised how easy they are to change.
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Eating nutritiously is too expensive.
Many people believe that fruits, vegetables, fish, and the other components of a healthful diet cost more than they currently spend on food.
Consider what happened when researchers at Pennsylvania State University and Mary Imogene Bassett Research Institute gave nearly 300 people with high cholesterol how-to home videos for cutting fat from their diets. After nine months, the participants who had lowered their blood cholesterol the most had also lopped an average of $1.10 each day off their food bills. That comes to more than $400 a year (or $1,600 for a heart-healthy family of four).
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I do not have time to eat better.
Sure you do. The average adult American watches over 20 hours of television a week. No doubt you could trade an hour of reruns or game shows for an hour in the kitchen preparing a lasagna layered with vegetables or a from-scratch meal of chicken breast, potato or rice, and a salad.
There is nothing wrong, by the way, with using bottled spaghetti sauce and other time-saving convenience foods to prepare your "from-scratch" meals. Just remember that the more you rely on processed/convenience foods, the harder it is to control the fat and sodium content of the foods you prepare. But relying on already-prepared supermarket products does not undermine your intentions to prepare nutritious meals. That is especially true in light of the many low-fat, reduced-sodium products available to consumers today.
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My sweet tooth prevents me from having better eating habits.
Eating well does not mean denying your sweet tooth. It just means taming it. Accept that sugar—high in calories and low in nutrients—is going to be a part of your life. Just eat less of it but enjoy it more.
Do not just haphazardly eat ice cream right out of the container, or indiscriminately cut slices of your favorite coffee cake at the kitchen counter. Instead, deliberately serve up a scoop in a bowl or a slice on a plate, sit down, and savor every single bite. Mindless eating piles in a lot of calories and you might not even be enjoying it. But mindful deliberate bites with focus on taste can be very satisfying and much less fattening. When you are done, walk away knowing that you can have more tomorrow or the next day. You can have your cake and eat it, too.
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I like fast food too much to eat well.
Fast food does not have to be an all-or-nothing thing. Giving into a burger or burrito craving a few times a year will not kill you or sabotage your good intentions. Furthermore, fast food does not have to mean bad-for-you food. All the major fast-food chains offer lower-calorie, reduced-fat sandwiches and salads.
Another way to fit fast food into your healthful lifestyle is to combine it with not-quite-so-fast food. Buy the burger or fried chicken at the drive-through window. Do not order the French fries or coleslaw dripping with dressing. Instead, drive straight home, bake a potato in the microwave and serve up some of those pre-cut vegetables you bought on your weekly trip to the supermarket. You will save fat, calories, and money.
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In fact, people who exercise regularly often eat less than those who do not. Regular and moderate exercise may actually suppress appetite a bit. And, exercise can help relieve stress. Stress can lead to nibbling on more food and excess calories.
If you debunk a myth a month, you will be on a health track by the end of the year. You can do it. Rethinking the myths and the alibis can afford you more food choices than you may ever have imagined, and a resulting lifestyle that is both healthful and invigorating.
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.101 no.3 Pretoria mar. 2011
Gauteng belt tightening chokes tertiary hospital efficacy
The life-threatening lack of reliable CT scanners at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital and the state of disrepair of vital equipment there and at Johannesburg General Hospital come under Chris Bateman's scrutiny. These two tertiary hospitals epitomise an almost countrywide malady. We describe the problem, make a diagnosis and suggest a cure - all straightforward enough, except that the way the system has been set up makes an escape from their dilemma nigh impossible for the highly frustrated clinicians who, year after year, remain unable do their jobs properly. Chris Hani Baragwanath's CEO, stung by doctor implications of management incompetence, spills the beans on what she sees as wrong, inadvertently siding with her clinicians to put Gauteng province in the dock. Austerity measures at 'head office' put a R25 000 ceiling on autonomous tertiary hospital equipment procurement. Fulfilling the hospitals' core mission and containing costs this way (resulting in longer patient stays) seems absurd, even given the endemic corruption and mismanagement in Gauteng's health department (currently unable to account for R19 billion).
Belt tightening is obviously indicated - but choking the life out of doctor morale and service delivery will surely only result in total failure of these vital organs of state!1
Trauma - and more trauma
Trauma is a major contributor to the burden of disease in South Africa. The National Injury Mortality Surveillance System (NIMSS) report estimated that 60 000 non-natural deaths occurred in 2004, accounting for 12% of all deaths. The most common non-natural cause of death in South Africa was accidental/unintentional injuries, accounting for 39.8% of fatal injuries; violence and homicide accounted for 39.3%. This issue of the SAMJ has no fewer than 8 items on trauma or trauma-related issues.
Direct admission to a level I trauma unit improves survival. The level I trauma unit at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital was commissioned in March 2007. Since such units are expensive to run, are their costs warranted? Cheddie and colleagues2 studied admissions to the trauma unit and the intensive care unit at the hospital from March 2007 to December 2008. They concluded that trauma is a major cause of premature death in the young and that direct admission to a dedicated trauma unit improves outcome in the critically injured.
The 11 P's of an Afrocentric trauma system for South Africa. Trauma systems improve survival and decrease morbidity - but can only do so after universal acceptance and sustained application. A trauma system involves the interaction of prehospital care, emergency care and definitive care (including prevention and rehabilitation services), providing an organised approach to acutely injured patients. Timothy Hardcastle3 outlines the requirements for cost-efficient, patient-centred trauma systems relevant to South Africa. He groups and discusses the items, each commencing with a P, namely: Political will, Public pressure, Participants from multiple sectors, Professional compliance, Provincial restructuring, Private sector participation, Professional society accreditation, Proper data management, Purpose-driven governance - improved outcomes, and Practise the theory in a financially sound model.
Pre-hospital rapid sequence intubation. Rapid sequence intubation (RSI) has become widespread as the procedure of choice for definitive airway management by pre-and in-hospital emergency care worldwide. The Professional Board for Emergency Care at the Health Professions Council of South Africa has approved pre-hospital RSI as part of the scope of practice for emergency care practitioners. Stein et al.4 provide a position statement regarding the training, system requirements, and the clinical governance system within which RSI should be practised.
Safe endotracheal tube cuff pressures. Endotracheal intubation is performed in pre-hospital and emergency department environments by advanced life support paramedics and emergency doctors. Over-inflation of endotracheal tubes (ETTs) may result in serious complications including tracheal stenosis, tracheal rupture and tracheo-oesophageal fistula. Stein and colleagues5 found that qualitative assessment of ETT cuff pressure by practitioners who regularly perform emergency endotracheal intubation is inadequate. This means making the use of ETT cuff pressure manometers mandatory throughout the continuum of emergency and critical care.
Procedural sedation in the emergency centre. A proportion of patients presenting to emergency centres need to undergo procedures that can be unpleasant and painful. The Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa recognised that there was a lack of uniformity in the provision of safe and effective analgesia and procedural safety. On behalf of the society, Stander and Wallace6 provide guidelines for emergency medicine specialists and all medical practitioners involved in the provision of emergency procedural sedation in emergency centres in South Africa.
Assessment of trauma centres. On behalf of the Executive Committee of the Trauma Society of South Africa, Hardcastle et al.7 provide guidelines for the assessment of trauma centres for South Africa.
In a letter to the editor, Michael Morris8 laments the failing medical services in much of South Africa, and suggests that if these are not addressed 'living medical problems may become dead certainties'.
A call to arms for trauma care. In his editorial Lee Wallis9 notes that trauma is the second-commonest cause of death in the region. The only sensible health service response is through the development of an integrated trauma system, which is long overdue in South Africa and should be made a national government priority.
1. Bateman C. 'Fix the damn system!'- Johannesburg's tertiary hospital doctors. S Afr Med J 2011;101:152-156. [ Links ]
2. Cheddie S, Muckart DJJ, Hardcastle TC, Den Hollander D, Cassimjee H, Moodley S. Direct admission versus inter-hospital transfer to a level 1 trauma unit improves survival. S Afr Med J 2011;101:176-178. [ Links ]
3. Hardcastle T. The 11 P's of an Afrocentric trauma system for South Africa - time for action! S Afr Med J 2011;101:160-162. [ Links ]
4. Stein C, Botha M, Kramer E, et al. Pre-hospital rapid sequence intubation. S Afr Med J 2011;101:163. [ Links ]
5. Stein C, Berkowitz G, Kramer E. Assessment of safe endotracheal tube cuff pressures in emergency care: Time for change? S Afr Med J 2011;101:172-173. [ Links ]
6. Stander M, Wallis LA, on behalf of the Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa (EMSSA). Procedural sedation in the emergency centre. S Afr Med J 2011;101:195-201. [ Links ]
7. Hardcastle TC, Steyn E, Boffard K, et al. Guideline for the assessment of trauma centres for South Africa. S Afr Med J 2011;101:189-194. [ Links ]
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Since this blog marked its three-month anniversary over the weekend, I decided to celebrate by introducing a new feature called What the @#$% is that?
It's a phrase I've found myself muttering a lot over the past 12 years, which – coincidentally – is how long I've been married to Pythagoras.
If you haven't picked up on it in previous posts like this and this and this, Pythagoras marches to the beat of a different drummer. That's a polite way of saying he's a little wacky.
In a good way.
Being absentminded in addition to wacky, he has the tendency to leave things lying around the house. Unidentifiable things.
So to kick off this new feature, I'd like you to take a look at what I found on the coffee table this weekend:
Intriguing, is it not? And maybe just a little disturbing.
Tell me in the comments trail what you think it is. You can guess for real, or you can make up an amusing story. I'll reveal tomorrow what the object really is.
In addition, I'll pick one commenter to receive a brand new copy of New York Times Bestselling Author Laura Kinsale's recent novel, LESSONS IN FRENCH (a new release from my fabulous publisher, Sourcebooks. I recently read and adored it, and so will you!)
So have at it. What the @#$% is that?
38 comments :
- CKHB said...
That is clearly a prototype lightsaber built by someone who secretly thinks The Force is a load of hooey. Hence the flawed design.
- May 3, 2010 at 7:05 AM
It looks like some kind of freakish drill bit (or something to drill with ;) LOL)
- May 3, 2010 at 7:07 AM
- grace said...
It's obviously a swirly slide for Lilliputians.
- May 3, 2010 at 7:11 AM
- Candyland said...
A pleasure enhancer. Duh. (You know the phallic wine stopper just wasn't enough)
- May 3, 2010 at 7:25 AM
Sorry to be crude but it's a backdoor screw. Seriously. It is used when applying back doors to houses and then the screen door. Helps for animal doors too.
Some even use this handy tool with swimming pools. Helps to screw holes in ground for mounting brackets and such.
Called the "Hole Driller" (Batteries not included)
- May 3, 2010 at 7:31 AM
- Kristina said...
As much as it might appear to be a "marital aid" I believe it to be a hose attachment...you attach it to a garden hose and use it to drill under a sidewalk for example. But since Big P left it on the coffee table, not sure what his project really was... ;)
- May 3, 2010 at 7:33 AM
- Penelope said...
Me: An enormous drill bit.
My five-year-old son: Mom, that is totally a penis sword. A big one.
- May 3, 2010 at 7:45 AM
- Patrick Alan said...
I am not sure what it is, but it makes me feel inferior.
- May 3, 2010 at 7:46 AM
- Matthew MacNish said...
Hmm that looks very strange. My real guess is that it's some kind of auger? It looks too plastic to get much done though.
My fun guess would have to be that it is used to clear large nostrils of Troll-Bogeys.
- May 3, 2010 at 7:46 AM
- Unknown said...
huh,huh,huh (that's me channeling Beavis and Butthead) and i could say something really dirty here...but I'll try to contain myself...huh,huh,huh
ahem **clears throat** it's an underwater weapon...Aquaman's sword...huh,huh,huh sword
considering you're mind is in the gutter right there with mine, the real question is, what was P trying to tell you by leaving it out for you to pick up?
- May 3, 2010 at 7:54 AM
- TAWNA FENSKE said...
CKHB, I like the lightsaber idea. It certainly looks like it has the force behind it, doesn't it?
tammygallant.com, the first time I ever saw one of these things, Pythagoras said "I have a Valentine's present for you" and proceeded to display it proudly. I was on the verge of fleeing for my life when he informed me what it was (and that it was NOT my present!) Wow, that was probably 15 years ago...I feel old!
Grace, the slide idea makes perfect sense. Sounds kinda fun, actually!
Candyland, the thought of that thing as a pleasure enhancer makes me cry a little bit (though admittedly, that was my first thought, too!)
Daryl, oh my. A backdoor screw, you say? I will inform Pythagoras at once.
Kristina, you probably can't tell much about the object based on where he leaves it. I just found his socks in the shower and his keys in the refrigerator.
Penelope, I think your son is onto something! You're definitely raising that boy right.
Patrick, you should feel inferior. Not just for the reasons you're thinking.
Matthew, excellent theory about the troll-bogeys. If any trolls come to the door today, I'll let you know how it works!
Karla, between my husband's forgetful nature and the general lack of tidyness in our house, it's possible that thing has been sitting on the coffee table for months :)
Thanks for reading, guys!
- May 3, 2010 at 8:01 AM
- ??? said...
LOL. I would have to guess that it's a drain deplugger-er. To get the clumps of hair and jewelry out, maybe? But I do agree with the other posters, it is quite phallic... but in a terrifying horror movie kind of way.
- May 3, 2010 at 8:04 AM
- Linda G. said...
Well, judging by the smile on your face...it's a bulb-planting tool. Pythagoras must like flowers.
- May 3, 2010 at 8:11 AM
- Crystal Posey said...
LOL I love this and I'm with candyland and you, pleasure enhancer was my first thought too. Ouch.
- May 3, 2010 at 8:27 AM
- Steph Schmidt said...
Is it a super magnet for finding errant screws/nails?
I almost hazarded a guess that it was for gardening, or an attachment for the vacuum...but I've never seen anything like it at a hardware store. All those summers my parents dragged me along to Osh/HomeDepo when they'd buy supplies for their weekend DYI projects, have failed me. I'm convinced this is not a toy every person will have in their garage.
- May 3, 2010 at 8:38 AM
- LR said...
No, no everyone is wrong. This is clearly your new (giant) hair curler.
- May 3, 2010 at 8:43 AM
- Unknown said...
It's a specialized bat for corkscrew pitches.
- May 3, 2010 at 8:51 AM
- Patrick Alan said...
Now I need a better shopvac AND one of those!
- May 3, 2010 at 9:12 AM
- Julie Weathers said...
I'd have to agree with Kristina. Oddly, I lived at Home Depot when we were remodeling and I never saw one of these, but I didn't go in the gardening section much.
- May 3, 2010 at 9:14 AM
- Cynthia Reese said...
OK, knowing Pythagoras, it's got to have SOMETHING to do with skis. Or bikes. Or Triathalons. Or maybe, oh, yeah! It's the cleaner-outter-gadget-doo-hickey for his Shop Vac.
Am I ineligible because I may have access to inside info?
- May 3, 2010 at 9:15 AM
Accessory attachment for the Rampant Rabbit.
- May 3, 2010 at 9:17 AM
I can't come up with something even remotely as entertaining as most of these were. I'll just go with a heavy-duty big game ear swab. You know, for when those elephants roll around in the dirt and mud and get all that crap in their ear canals and then can't hear their trainers' commands.
- May 3, 2010 at 9:17 AM
- abby mumford said...
pythagoras loves his Shop Vac so much, i doubt he'd leave its parts laying around.
it's probably not a prop that's going to crop up in your next romance novel.
so i'm going to guess it's the device that removes the "bung" from the "bung hole", as seen on your winery tour.
- May 3, 2010 at 10:01 AM
- Delia Moran said...
Maybe he's secretly "The Underminer." You know, nothing is beneath him, but he is always beneath you? The Incredibles? No? All right, fine. I spend too much time with kids. And I have no idea what your positional preferences are.
So let's see... to me it looks like something that's used to anchor something else into the ground. That's my best guess.
It's too bad it's not The Incredibles, though. I always did like the name Violet. Plus, it would be really fun to be able to yell, "I am the Underminer!" at random intervals.
Yah. Right. Coffee.
- May 3, 2010 at 10:58 AM
- Dianne K. Salerni said...
My own version of Pythagoras confidently states that it's a concrete or masonry drill bit.
But I like the giant game ear swab idea, too.
- May 3, 2010 at 12:46 PM
- India Drummond said...
It's obviously a wall anchor (raw plug/molly) for hanging the biggest painting on the planet.
I assume it's for the oil painting that's going to go in her ladyship's bath.
- May 3, 2010 at 12:47 PM
- TAWNA FENSKE said...
Sydnee, I don't want that thing anywhere near my drains!
Lynda G, Pythagoras does indeed like flowers. Maybe he should bring me some.
Crystal, you and Candyland are both perverts. I would never in a million years have drawn that conclusion. Or posted pictures of me holding it in a semi-provocative manner in order to entice people to play my little guessing game.
SM Schmidt, you'd never find this in a hardware store. Yep, that's a clue!
LR, you know, I could use a curling iron like that!
Misty, LOL, OK now that's clever!
Patrick, want me to mail you one? There are about 100 of 'em in my garage.
Julie, I'm going to go try to dig bulb holes with it now.
Cynthia, I might just have to disqualify you on the basis of knowing too much about my husband! (Er, that sounded a lot dirtier than I meant it to).
Xuxana, LOL, can you imagine the marketing campaign for that?!
danicaavet, ooh, maybe this could help me get a job at the zoo?
mumfusa, hilarious! I'm totally taking this with me to the next wine tasting.
Delia, I'm not sure if I've ever seen The Incredibles, but I do know that the heroine in one of my upcoming releases is named Violet. I might have to rent this movie just to see what she's like!
Dianne, tell your Pythagoras to take a closer look :) It's plastic, not so good for drilling. Good guess, though!
India, her ladyship, I love it! I'm totally making Pythagoras call me that from now on.
Thanks for reading (and guessing!)guys!
- May 3, 2010 at 1:28 PM
- Kathi Oram Peterson said...
I didn't have time to read what others thought it was, so forgive me if I repeat, but is it a toilet plunger? I'm just sayin'. ;0)
- May 3, 2010 at 3:00 PM
- Glen Binger said...
Definitely a drill to use in the sand when putting up a beach umbrella. I think.
- May 3, 2010 at 3:07 PM
- Christi Goddard said...
OMG. Tell Pythagorus to stay the hell out of my sex toy walk in closet. I want it back, and it better not have anything suspicious on it that I didn't put there myself.
- May 3, 2010 at 5:13 PM
I'd say some sort of plumber's tool in all seriousness, but the term "ribbed for her pleasure" keeps coming to mind.
- May 3, 2010 at 5:38 PM
- Robin said...
New reader here. Found you via Writes In The City. I am going to take a wild guess on this and say an anchor for a large beach umbrella.
- May 3, 2010 at 5:59 PM
- Unknown said...
Wow! How many batteries does that need?
- May 3, 2010 at 6:15 PM
- Shannon said...
...And that's just the attachment.
- May 3, 2010 at 7:33 PM
- Claire Dawn said...
I'd guess that it's for tilling soil.
- May 4, 2010 at 5:29 AM
- Delia Moran said...
Okay, late one, but I consulted with the hubby who, once he picked his mind back up and wrung the gutter water out, concurred with my latest theory that it's a part of a sprinkler/lawn irrigation system. That's my best guess.
- May 4, 2010 at 6:37 AM
- TAWNA FENSKE said...
Kathi, I think my husband would be upset if I stuck this in the toilet.
Glen, you're not terribly far off, but still not it :)
Christi, you'll want to tune in for the next post when I tell you how Pythagoras first introduced me to this object.
christinerice, kinda tough to look at that thing without thinking that phrase, isn't it?
Robin, welcome! I always like new readers (and I particularly love Wendy's blog!)
Jeannie, LOL, it's entirely self-powered!
Shannon, actually, it is just the attachment :)
Claire Dawn, I'm going to send Pythagoras outside with that and instruct him to hoe the garden!
Delia, a good guess, but not right :)
Thanks for playing, guys! Now it's time for me to go write the post telling you what it REALLY is.
- May 4, 2010 at 7:56 AM
- Laura Fenske said...
It was purposely left for you on the coffee table as hint to a gift he got you. He found it when you were out wine tasting (I mean researching). It is a giant corkscrew for a giant bottle of wine that he bought for the next big event in your life.
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According to three people with knowledge of Heartland's campaign, the surprise ad comparing Unabomber Ted Kaczynski to advocates of reducing greenhouse gases prompted a sudden conference call last Friday between the board and the group's president, Joe Bast. The call occurred hours after the electronic billboard became active Thursday afternoon. The ad was canceled before rush hour Friday.
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The United Services Automobile Association, an insurer that donated $45,000 to Heartland last year, verified its departure from the organization yesterday. "In light of recent personnel departures at Heartland, we decided to end our support for the organization," the company said in a statement.
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Dan Hales, who has been a director on Heartland's board for about 20 years, said his counterparts continue to hold Bast in high regard. Hales wasn't on the conference call last Friday, and he said earlier this week that he's not familiar enough with the billboard campaign to have an opinion on it.
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Higginson, the former president of a Chicago equity fund that finances affordable housing projects in Illinois, remembers sitting impatiently in board meetings as Bast lingered over details, pursuing "a very exacting sort of approval process."
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The reverberations of the campaign promise to be felt for some time. The collapse of Heartland's Washington office ends an important stream of revenue that its Chicago headquarters had sought to expand.
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Hales, of Heartland's board, expressed confidence that the lost funding from the defunct Washington office could be replaced. But he's not sure how.
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