Grand-Slam Surgery Scores Big Points
By: BizarreNews	Published: 09/27/2000
NEW ENGLAND - There were enough organs to go around when four patients received organs from one donor in an historic multi-transplant operation at Boston´s Brigham and Women´s Hospital. It was reported that the quadruple-recipient donation was the first of its kind in New England and perhaps in the world. One man received the donor´s heart, another a kidney, and two women from New Hampshire each received a lung. According to Chief of Thoratic Surgery Dr. David Sugarbaker, It was the first grand-slam transplant, with four runs coming across the plate. It was serendipitous that all four recipients rose to the top of the waiting list at the right time. Why not join the rest of us on the inside and get all of Goofball.com?
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Put away the wookie! (0 replies) started by msbzdragn (09.30.2000 3:16:58 PM EST) ser·en·dip·i·ty (srn-dp-t) n. The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [From the characters in the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, who made such discoveries from Persian Sarandp, Sri Lanka, from Arabic Sarandb.] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- seren·dipi·tous adj. seren·dipi·tous·ly adv. Word History: We are indebted to the English author Horace Walpole for coining the word serendipity. In one of his 3,000 or more letters, on which his literary reputation primarily rests, and specifically in a letter of January 28, 1754, Walpole says that “this discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity, a very expressive word.” Perhaps the word itself came to him by serendipity. Walpole formed the word on an old name for Sri Lanka, Serendip. He explained that this name was part of the title of “a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of . . . One of the most remarkable instances of this accidental sagacity (for you must observe that no discovery of a thing you are looking for, comes under this description) was of my Lord Shaftsbury [Anthony Ashley Cooper], who happening to dine at Lord Chancellor Clarendon's [Edward Hyde], found out the marriage of the Duke of York [later James II] and Mrs. Hyde [Anne Hyde, Clarendon's daughter], by the respect with which her mother [Frances Aylesbury Hyde] treated her at table.” -- Got to toss my cookies, 'cause you're showing me your wookie -- Squid squid

serendipi WHAT?? (0 replies) started by daveminster (09.28.2000 12:56:08 PM EST) anyone care to help me on this ?

"feces" (0 replies) started by Anonymous Goofball (09.28.2000 11:33:12 AM EST) Yep, short and sweet. To the point. Brilliant, just brilliant.

feces (0 replies) started by SuicideKing (09.27.2000 10:05:25 AM EST) feces R¥äñ (the §üîçïÐê Kïñg) I'll give you a cookie if you tickle my wookie

THIS is news? (0 replies) started by Anonymous Goofball (09.27.2000 9:56:34 AM EST) Doesn't happen all the time when someone dies and happens to be an organ donor? Based on the "grand slam" title I thought it was going to be a story about a whole shitload of organ donors simultaneously dying in a massive car crash. At the local hospital: "I've got good news and I've got bad news. The bad news is there's a massive pileup on I-495. The good news is most of them are organ donors! Hey everybody! Get on the phone and get busy with those transplants!"

Only four? (0 replies) started by oliverclozoff (09.27.2000 2:28:54 AM EST) Who got his willy? Take time to stop and smell the panties.

lucky (0 replies)   started by donut38 (09.27.2000 0:38:47 AM EST) stiffs

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