Osler's Razor

There's a lot of problems with this story. For one thing, Max Baer is still alive, so I doubt they would take his liver and give it to someone else!
 

umm, can't you be a living donor for a liver transplant? Don't they just take a section? Granted, usually it is a family member, but . . . It's not like lungs and heart. Although you don't have one to spare like you do with kidneys.
 

I am truly humbled. Now that the cat's out of the bag, perhaps my wife will be more sympathetic to my attraction to Miss Jane Hathaway and my affinity for my Grannie's 'shine. Celebrity LVR
 

Your Honor--

Everyone is attracted to Jane Hathaway. And how can you not love a bank that is SO full service that an employee is constantly hanging out at your house?
 

I don't know. Miss Hathaway is a little angular for my taste. Now a wrastlin' match with Ellie May out by the Seement Pond, now that's the ticket...But you know, Granny, in her day, must have been mighty fetchin'!

btw, I know for a fact that that bronze medal was in 4-man bobsled.
 

Ellie Mae was cute, but a little too tomboyish for me. The girls on Petticoat Junction, however....
 

BTW, he'll probably still deny your motion despite your shameless attempt to suck up to him
 

Coincidentally, after reading through his motion once again, I'm starting to believe it just might be well taken. --Celebrity LVR
 

Yup - You can be a living liver donor. They take a segment of your liver and... like a starfish... it regenerates the rest in both the donor and the recipient. But, of course, there are risks to the donor, including compromised health and potentially death. The percent of living donors to cadaveric donors for livers last year was only 4%. The vast majority of organ transplants are for kidneys with a waiting list of 70,000 people. Last year, only 15,000 were done, with nearly 40% of those from living donors. You can do a living donor procedure for lungs too, but they are even more rare. Sorry to be so geeky, but I just had a friend call the other night asking for advice for her husband who needs a liver transplant because of liver cancer... and I'm doing a little research to try to guide them. Because the type of liver cancer he has is so rare, few hospitals will accept him on the list. They've been told to check out the Mayo clinic - but their insurance won't cover the procedure there. She said it would cost them $10,000 just to walk in the door... and $400,000 for the procedure. Health problems like this can be overwhelming enough. But it's hard to add the financial complications on top of those.

"Then one day he was shooting at some food, when up from the ground came some bubbling goo... oil, that is. Texas Tea!"
 

Red, you may be the most knowledgeable person to ever visit the razor. Thank you.
 

Props to Judge M. I agree, that was the best haiku of last week! He is now our Brittney connoisseur
 

Not sure if that was supposed to be serious, but Max Baer, Jr.--the actor who played Jethro-- was not a boxer. His father was the heavyweight champion lost to James Braddock in 1935. The luge comments seems like something from the Baylor history segment of this site. Please disregard if that wasn't intended to be serious.
 

Which one plays bass for the BoDeans?

Tyd's husband probably knows
 

3:15-- Believe me, there is nothing I take more seriously than a federal judge's celebrity liver transplant.
 

Now I know why the good Judge likes me to wear my geeky glasses, hmmmm, Miss Jane, it all makes sense now.....Mrs. Celebrity lvr, off to peruse the new Us Weekly
 

So that's the question: should The Beverly Hillbillies be the theme for Haiku Friday? Or maybe situation comedies from the sixties?
 

If I think about it long enough, like about 30 seconds, I could probably turn the them to Green Acres into a Haiku
 

Green Acres the place
Farm Living, the Life for Me
Goodbye Manhattan