894/899

If McCain had been graduate No. 899, Naval Academy tradition has it that the entire class takes up a collection of money to give to the last graduate of each class.

 

The condition was known as "Gripes" at the time, in that the testicles became inflamed, swollen and caused almost unendurable pain as if they were being twisted.

 

Consider it a public service announcement about bad snatch.

 

The lowest-ranking graduate of a medical school . . . is still an M.D.

 

LJB....are you channeling DocTalk right now?

 

He's a doc too, just a better one.

 

Back when he had the cash, Michael Jackson shoulda bought his urethra, instead of trying to buy the Elephant Man's remains. Probably would've been cheaper.

 

I think after Patton left VMI and went to West Point, he did very poorly -- even had to repeat his plebe year. His statue is the only one that faces the library, telling all the students to turn around, go back in and put in a few more hours.

I met this year's goat. He walked into the library once, he said, to check out a book for a class.

 

Medical school is tough, but many fine clinicians aren't as solid in the theoretical world of academia.

I presume that the service academies have highly competitive classes and not all students can finish in the top half of the class.

 

Graduates of medical schools don't have to do pushups or run laps at 3 a.m. if there's a speck of dust on the bottom of one of their shoes.