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The Song Challenge:   He's A Long, Tall Surgeon -- (Indianapolis, IN) A spokesperson for the MidWest Medical Center announced today that the hospital would remove all spittoons from its surgical intensive care unit, following complaints by patients. "This has all been a colossal misunderstanding, and we want to put it behind us", said hospital spokesman Henry O'Toole. According to O'Toole, the 19th century-style saliva receptacles had been placed in the intensive care unit by Dr. Nick Testa, a staff surgeon. Anonymous sources within the hospital described Dr. Testa's reputation as a surgical "cowboy", a part he had increasingly tried to play to the maximum. "First people were just referring to him as a 'cowboy' because he basically took anyone to the OR, no matter what their problem was", said the source. "Then about five years ago, he started wearing hand-tooled cowboy boots...OK, lots of surgeons do that." Apparently several staff were upset when Dr. Testa tried last month to operate on a patient wearing a Lone Ranger style mask, after earlier wearing a bandana pulled up over his handlebar moustache, instead of a standard surgical mask. "He was just yelling: 'This IS my mask, this IS my mask', when they tried to get him out of the OR", according to Sally Stevens, a MidWestern scrub nurse. Many staff members regarded as amusing Testa's practice of carrying his stethoscope in a holster, drawing it with a rapid motion when he intended to examine a patient. However, when Testa brought three large brass spittoons into the surgical intensive care unit, patients and their families began to complain. Testa's habit of chewing tobacco and spitting towards the spittoons reportedly became increasingly disruptive to intensive care unit staff, who frequently had to change intravenous lines and dressings when Testa missed his mark. According to O'Toole, Dr. Testa is currently on vacation in Montana, and so is unavailable for comment.


Song Challenge!s Gone By by SharonA
(Tune: Ghost Riders in the Sky)

SharonA's Comments: Here goes nothin'... I'm aiming for that All-in-One Award, and I do mean all, after reviewing the Song Challenge!s from the Past page. Pronunciation guide: virtual=two syllables ("vur--chool" or "vur-tyool" or "vurch-wull") -- CA="see-ay". I'm using the tune found in DT, though I had thought there was another syllable in the last line before the chorus. The Song Challenge!s are numbered for easy reference, but the numbers are not to be sung. Okay; I'm ready now...


1) A man who's caught red-butted
2) An inebriating treat
3) A bee that's tagged for tracking
4) And a wedding "While-U-Meet"
5) WiseWimmin, Munchkin birth and death
6) A virtual cattle buy
7) Some magic'lly delicious shapes
8) Ghost chickens in the sky.

Rumors so low, sources so high
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9) A tribute to the taste buds
10) Ferret-busts out in CA
11) A fine tradition kept and thrown
12) The moose's right-of-way
13) A one-hundred-percent-off sale
14) A sticky-fingered plight
15) The Lent that's banned in Boston now
16) The dull men's dull website.

They made us laugh till we would cry
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17) Hairdressers who, um, know for sure
18) A hard drive that's possessed
19) Eight days without a Twinkie
20) Ranking songbirds, worst to best
21) A sound effect for ev'ry fib
22) A cock who'd not be lunch
23) Two blossoming libido-slaves
24) An Easter Rabbit-punch.

Stooping so low, rising so high
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25) The Undergarden Railroad gnomes
26) Senility with guns
27) Wild Turkey in the swimmin' hole
28) A belch with rising suns
29) A raccoon's three-week drinking binge
30) A Kudu Chip Spit Fair
31) The tale of Johnny-in-a-spot
32) Authentic mermaid wear.

"Make up a tale; tell us no lie"
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33) Somebody dumped somebody's ashes
34) Some guys just can't win
35) Some foxes can't take pressure
36) Some think chain-gang dates are "in"
37) Old Nessie's got some rivals
38) Kindly Shorty left 'em cold
39) They offer cream and rubber here
40) And tons of bread on "hold".

"Who, what and where? When, how and why?"
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41) Are nipples Braille for blind men?
42) Of which creatures shall we write?
43) Does feng-shui work with coffins?
44) Was the pig's a round-trip flight?
45) Is there a brain in Arkansas?
46) ...and in Sri Lanka, too?
47) Will that ice ceiling ever melt?
48) Did Moscow have a loo?

"Sing your song low, warble it high"
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49) A cow without a parachute
50) A flushing Golden Throne
51) Revenge for all the lamb chops
52) And the Ooze of the Unknown
53) A chocoholic monkey
54) And a quest for Cheerios
55) A doctor's spitting image, too...
...and on the Challenge! goes.

There will be more — they'll never die —
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