Anonymous sends this in: “I feel like this is some sort of pun that I’m not getting. “Surgeon’s Vacuum”???”
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Never heard it called that, but on MASH the surgeons are always calling for more suction while operating.
The surgeon is operating on a vacuum cleaner. –“-.,,.-“-.,,.-“-.,,.-“-.,,.-“-.,,.-“-.,,.-“— Ed Rush, Atascadero, Calif. ed@edrene.used@edrene.us (This email system won’t let me show ed@edrene.used@edrene.us in the From line, but please reply to it anyway. )
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He’s using his not-totally-appropriate job skills to fix a vacuum cleaner. Not funny to me, but that’s what it looks like.
When you get a lot of threads and junk wrapped around the beater brush you have to cut them to get the off. Note the red thread in the surgeon’s hand. As a surgeon he does his cutting in the surgery.
I agree, it seems like it should be a pun, or a funny interpretation of an existing phrase. But while “surgeon’s vacuum” does produce results for medical suction devices, the actual phrase doesn’t seem to be used. “Surgical vacuum” is slightly better but it’s still not common.
I think Kevin has it. For most of us getting off the threads wrapped around the brush is a tedious exercise using scissors or maybe a knife. For a surgeon and his vaccum, this is a much more elaborate procedure involving nurses and an OR.
Editors – you missed the opportunity to title this one “This doesn’t suck” or something equally punny.
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Never heard it called that, but on MASH the surgeons are always calling for more suction while operating.
The surgeon is operating on a vacuum cleaner. –“-.,,.-“-.,,.-“-.,,.-“-.,,.-“-.,,.-“-.,,.-“— Ed Rush, Atascadero, Calif. ed@edrene.us ed@edrene.us (This email system won’t let me show ed@edrene.us ed@edrene.us in the From line, but please reply to it anyway. )
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He’s using his not-totally-appropriate job skills to fix a vacuum cleaner. Not funny to me, but that’s what it looks like.
When you get a lot of threads and junk wrapped around the beater brush you have to cut them to get the off. Note the red thread in the surgeon’s hand. As a surgeon he does his cutting in the surgery.
I agree, it seems like it should be a pun, or a funny interpretation of an existing phrase. But while “surgeon’s vacuum” does produce results for medical suction devices, the actual phrase doesn’t seem to be used. “Surgical vacuum” is slightly better but it’s still not common.
I think Kevin has it. For most of us getting off the threads wrapped around the brush is a tedious exercise using scissors or maybe a knife. For a surgeon and his vaccum, this is a much more elaborate procedure involving nurses and an OR.
Editors – you missed the opportunity to title this one “This doesn’t suck” or something equally punny.