I spy with my big eyes and froggy mouth ...
Fun times with anaesthesia
"Last year they were knocking me out for a colonoscopy. It was the third time I had been put under in a year and I was curious ... I had heard that when they knock you out you are still awake for awhile, you just don't
remember. So in the spirit of science I proposed a test with the anaesthesiologist: When she started the medicine I would begin counting backward. When I would wake up we would compare what I remembered to what she observed. Plunger down — 99, 98, 97 — I remembered nothing more. Minutes later I awoke. The anaesthesiologist spied me and came over quickly. 'What did you remember?' she asked. '97'. She began laughing. 'You got down to 7!'
Propaganda that stuck
1. That teeth are supposed to be perfectly white ... cue expensive whitening toothpastes.
2. That you must have an engagement ring ... In Germany you buy a ring when you get engaged and wear on the left hand. When you get married you switch it to the right hand.
