RE: [CH] Holiday Party...really OT big time!
PBurke@mpi.mb.ca
Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:49:16 -0600
Hi Doug...
Paul in Winnipeg here....currently getting about 2 inches of snow with
another 4 on the way tonight/tomorrow.....
Found your story interesting, but from a different point of view. My son
was diagnosed as a Type 1 diabetic last year...so the part about Best
and Banting was pretty close to home for me....
To keep it on topic...my son is 10 and he loves Franks new sauce with
the Lime in it...new for us in the great white north anyways....puts it
on everything, and I do mean everything.....
He has tried my ground red savina from Uncle Steve and although he finds
that "hot", he always seems to put a bit on things whenever I drag it
out. Me thinks he is not going to be a "moderate" :)
paul
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-chile-heads@globalgarden.com
[mailto:owner-chile-heads@globalgarden.com] On Behalf Of Doug Irvine
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:20 AM
To: Rael64
Cc: Bradley F. Maurer; ChileHeads
Subject: Re: [CH] Holiday Party...really OT big time!
Don, you broke me up! And brought back a memory from the far distant
past...away back in 1944, during WW 2, I worked at the University of
Toronto, in the Dept of Physiology for Dr. Charles Best, who along with
Banting & McLeod discovered that insulin could be extracted from animal
pancreas, specifically the Islets of the Langerhans beta cells, which
secrete insulin. Dr. Best was a Commander in the Royal Cdn Navy during
the war, and research was primarily regarding sea foot, and blood plasma
subsitutes. I worked in a little lab, where those gentlemen had
conducted their work some 15 or more years previous. Anyway, every fall
Toronto has a huge Santa Claus parade, which occurred, war or no war in
November. As the Parade moved down University Avenue, people at the U of
T had a ringside view, from the Anatomy lab, where disections were
taught to the Medical students. The room was fairly dark, as the green
blinds were always down, but raising one a little gave a great view of
the parade, of which I was aware, having been there the year previous.
The odor of formalin was quite strong, however one became accustomed to
it. There were long rows of tables, covered with rubber tarps, about 3
ft from the windows. We had a new employee that month who had never been
in the Anatomy building, and was quite happy to watch the parade from
such a great vantage point. Well, the parade came along, and it lasts
for about an hour or more, and he backed up and leaned against one of
the tables. He then put his hand on the table and encountered a foot,
which of course was attached to the rest of the body which was under the
tarp! That was the end of the parade for him, he took off like
gangbusters, so I followed him, as I did not wish to have him creating a
big fuss! He grabbed his coat, said " I quit!" and left! As it was close
to lunch time, he had also left his lunch. Turkey sandwiches. Which were
quite good. Even if they did not have any chiles in them! As long ago
as that was, I can still remember those sandwiches! And I also remember
his name, Sol Spiegel! Poor guy likely had an aversion to cadavers ever
after :-) ! Cheers, old Doug on Vancouver Island BC
Rael64 wrote:
>Thank gawd you didn't say that the Feast (man, *what* a feast!) was
>eaten in joy and merriment...amongst cadavers and sacrificial rats.
>
>Euuw.
>
>Peace, Hendrix, and Chiles.......
>Don
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