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Date: | Mon, 31 Jan 2000 08:35:13 -0500 |
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Speaking of clandestine digging, anyone see the syndicated medical
advice column by Dr. Gott published in many Saturday newspapers this
past weekend? The writer wanted to know if he could contract any
diseases while "privy digging." It seems he has eye on some
50-year-old privies that he wants to get into for bottles and other
relics. The good doctor advised him that there was probably very
little health risk, but wondered why he would be intersted in privies
used in the 1950s--since that was in his own lifetime and folks then
rarely used them as trash recepticles. Instead, he highly recommended
searching for privies on old farmsteads, where the you could find
really good stuff--the older, the better!
Imagine if we anyone were to hand out harmful and outrageous medical
advice publicly. Accordingly, I'm planning to write a pretty pointed
letter to Dr. Gott and to my local newspaper. Unfortunately, I did
not bring the paper in to the office today, but I will attempt to scan
the text and provide the doctor's address tomorrow for those of you
interested in piling on. Perhaps a coordinated campaign of protest
might even result in a retraction of such bad advice.
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