3,181 Comments Posted by Lynne

Or the orb of Radical Ed's beer.

I'm just sayin' what I think.

I have so much guilt about stuff like that, I prolly would have sneaked back and returned it, so it's just as well. But thanks, honey!

Good one, Tony!

The elevator where I work has the exact same same scratches, and there hasn't been anyone but staff in my building for years, and the elevator has been repainted many times. Don't get too excited interpreting these things.

Although I will admit that I work with an odd bunch. ;-)

OK, a new batch of folks . . . . . . . . .

They were probably just humiliated to be someone's field trip.

Em, I think it's the entire wall partition that fell over.

I think it says "Don't fuck wit - - " and then I can't read the last word - prolly the name of some folks who thought they were pretty darn big kids on the block, I am guessing. :-)

Don't judge that by this pic - the press and state were pretty harsh on Dixmont for the problems they found rampant there. My memories are that it was fairly equivalent to the other underfunded places.

Remember - anyone can get TB, even people with mental illness. There are a number of sites that will tell you about TB hospitals back at the turn of the last century that had wards exclusively for people with mental illness, and in some of those places ECT was used because it was considered state of the art at the time. A mouth gag is a small rubber device that is placed between your back teeth - dentists still use them so you don't have to hold your mouth open for a long procedure. People sometimes received insulin and/or Metrazol as well as ECT or in place of ECT and either way, the idea is that you know in advance that you are going to cause the person to have a seizure, so you want to protect their teeth from crunching together and breaking and keep them from biting their tongue. You can't be sticking your hand in the mouth of someone who is having a seizure unless you don't value your fingers. Trust me on this. :-)

Most tongue and teeth protectors were either rubber tubing you bit down on, gauze-wrapped/padded tongue protectors placed between the teeth, or "mouth gags."

Actually, it's Baker's pink - close, though!

Great old pix - thanks!

Excellent!

DANG, I love this shot! :-)

Another shot that is even better in black-and-white!