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BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Rim shot time...



Friday, March 17, 2006  

Rim shot time...


Not to rip off ThingsMyBoyfriendSaid.com's gig, especially since this one is self-reported, but... Tonight Malaya and me we vegging on the couch and watching the Jerry Springer Show. I don't watch much TV, so I try to make up for it in quality, you see.

Anyway, one of the guests was a one-armed woman, on there to scream at her boyfriend who was cheating with his baby momma, and to fight with said baby-momma. Also appearing was the guy's mom, who mostly shouted at everyone. The one-armed girl had a left arm to just below the elbow, and a prosthetic below that. She's wearing a sleeveless blouse though, so it's kind of pointless, but anyway, there it was. And the prosthesis was terrible, like 10 shades darker than the rest of her skin, and not good enough that she could fight with it. She was reduced to grabbing at the other woman's hair with her one good hand!

Anyway, the show goes on and we end up fast forwarding over most of the inanities, but as their segment was ending Malaya and me got to wondering about her arm. They never said how she lost the arm, but she was sort of skeletally-deformed in the back, so we figured it was a birth defect. But why was it such a bad color? I speculated that maybe she bought it used. I mean why not? Do they bury amuputees with their prosthetic limbs, or sell/donate them so that other one-handers can live a fuller life?

The question then was, well, where do you buy a used prosthetic arm? To which I replied, "At a second-hand store."

Yes, I laugh at my own jokes. Fortunately Malaya usually beats me to it, or at least has the decency to join me. She did tonight, at least.

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There was a big big fundraising scheme going on here to get people with old prosthetics they didn't need any more to donate them to this charity that then flew them over to African countries which are ravaged by wars and because of the landmines lots and lots of people need prosthetic limbs.

So, there you go.


 

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