Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Good way to get hoist with your own petard

It's France, after all, but there really should be some limits: "French Hospital Evacuated After Doctors Find Live WWI Artillery Shell in Patient’s Rectum".

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  1. There aren't enough ha's for the bwa on the last line in the article
    There was no initial explanation as to why the shell ended up in the man’s body, but local media speculated that it might have had something to do with his social life.”
    Ya think?

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    1. Yeah, that's pretty hilarious. I'm reasonably sure that nobody was firing at him.

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    2. I'm equally sure that the shell didn't accidentally find its way up his bum.

      Sheesh!

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  2. “There was no initial explanation as to why the shell ended up in the man’s body, but local media speculated that it might have had something to do with his social life.”

    Oh, I bet he belongs to one of those WW I reenactment groups and they were out of toilet paper, and it slipped.

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  3. Must be hard to find a gerbil in France.

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