From the Department of Bad Taste
The Terri Schiavo situation has reached a point of such absurdity that it's hard to be serious about it. Thus, my friends and I have come up with a few Schiavo-themed band names. Hey kids, they're up for grabs!
Also, my good pal Steve suggests that the following expressions be introduced to the American vernacular:
Remove the Feeding Tube: Means to pull the plug on a project, put an end to something that's gone on way too long
Re-insert the Feeding Tube: Means something is suddenly viable again and can be restarted
- Persistent Vegetative State (perhaps for an ambient or trance ensemble)
- Permanently Brain-Damaged Daughter (more of a speed metal band, I think)
- Feeding Tube (pop, definitely pop)
Also, my good pal Steve suggests that the following expressions be introduced to the American vernacular:
Remove the Feeding Tube: Means to pull the plug on a project, put an end to something that's gone on way too long
Re-insert the Feeding Tube: Means something is suddenly viable again and can be restarted
2 Comments:
Sadly, someone already used the Grateful Dead.
I would pay five dollars to see a Schiavo band called FRIST (power ballads) Dead Daddy Delay (frat rock) or Video Diagnosis (80's pop)
Feeding Tubez (electro)
The NY Times just reported that the Pope now has his own feeding tube, this following a March 16th edict that maintaining such tubes and another artificial means of delivering food and water are a moral obligation. Some theologists are wondering whether for the Pope this amounts to a "living will," expressing his own wishes to be kept alive indefinitely by artifical means. With the level of medical care that you'd expect the Pope would get, that could mean a good long while with the Catholic Church headed by a persistently vegetative Pope, which, well, I mean, those so adamant about the "culture of life" and keeping Terri Shiavo nominally alive, be careful what you wish for...
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