If you HAD to choose between an arm and a leg..

Apr 17, 2007 at 12:02 PM
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I got a great idea for a picture. It's almost vacation season and gas prices are just going up, up, up. I'm gonna take a picture of a gas price sign and change regular, super, and premium, to arm, leg, and soul. I know, it's been done, but I've got an angle that will keep me selling that picture all summer long. I'm gonna change the prices to the projected gas prices for the end of the year. Hah, see I told you I had an angle! (hey, I never said my job was glamorous!)

It got me thinking, though. I don't think that arm should get the lowest billing. If I had to choose between an arm and a leg, I think I'd pick a leg. They make great prosthetics now.. look at that Paul McCartney lady. If they didn't mention it every time they mentioned her, you'd never know! If she didn't have an arm, no matter how good the fake one was, I think that you'd notice.

If I were an athlete, or something, I might feel differently, but I definitely use my arms (well, my hands, anyway) more than my legs.. just ask my fat ass! Besides, we've got all those wheel chairs.

Which would you pick?

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I'd probably choose ARM provided that I could get one of those snappy bionic ones like Steve Austin. I guess in retrospect, I'd go for the eye since I could spot power lines in the distance, but you didn't ask about eyes. The only thing I've always been curious about is - how does Steve Austin pick up a huge boulder with his arm? I mean - wouldn't the other arm collapse? What about his spine? I'd think they would have had to reinforce his body with metal or some new fangled substance.

Good question. If it was the whole leg, that would make walking on/wearing a prosthetic leg nearly impossible. Missing an arm would suck also. I guess I'll just keep both and pay high gas prices. Unless they could give me an arm like Luke skywalker or Anakin Skywalker got in Star Wars. Those were some pretty cool mechanical, lifelike looking arms.

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Definitely a leg....I agree the prosthetics are great for legs....as long as I could still walk without great difficulty and drive a car I would be ok...

Without an arm...well how would you wash dishes or fold laundry?? How would you scrub a bathtub with one arm?

I think it would be my hands I'd miss rather than the whole arm.

DeWitte does the laundry and the dishes.. he says it therapeutic in an instant gratification sort of way. I say go right ahead, you won't hear me complain!

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Not sure on this one. I love them both. I love my legs tho, especially. Strong sturdy and cute (ceases self love now)...

I'd rather pay for gas. (I'd rather have gas). lol

Well, I don't know how you guys do it. I fill my car up and look around and people that drive SUV's and Mini Vans pay a mint at the pump. I'd have to stop driving if it cost that much. DeWitte's car is a gas hog but he only drives it to and from work.

The strange thing is (during my research to find out what the projected price is,..haven't found it yet), the cost of a barrel goes up and down. Why does the price of gas only go up? I guess it fluctuates some, but not as much as a barrel of crude oil.

Leg for me too and then I could have those nifty bionic ones like Jamie Somers. I could run faster than Steve because I was made later, ;-)
Now as for gas prices...try coming up here Miss Jamie. When I filled up my 98 litre gas tank on my van it was over 100 dollars.
Math 101 lesson to ensue. There are 3.83 litres in a US gallon. So, roughly 25 gallon tank of gas, ok? We pay at our gas pumps right this second, 105.9 per litre. You figure it out. hehe
Good thing I have a 78 litre Jeep now, isn't it? Um..well...probably not. Maybe less each fill up but somewhere around the same price to run it. So it kinda sucks that way I guess.

How the heck did you get used to the metric system? I tried to convince DeWitte that we should convert to the metric system once, he wasn't having it. Oh well.

Heck I'd give up both legs before an arm, an eye, or just about anything else. Except maybe a nipple. I'd lose a nipple before a leg. That's about it though (externally speaking anyway).

Externally speaking, of course! If it's between a leg and a nipple, hmm.. I'd have to think about that. I guess I'd choose the nipple...only one other person on the planet sees them anyway and he happens to be a leg man, so there you go!

Speaking if leg men....what is up with that anyway? I think I'm gonna make a post on it.
Nipple, huh? I really would never have ever considered that as a choice.

Well, it's not really. You can't put nipple, leg, soul on a gas sign. Some guys might get the wrong idea and think they're going to get an extra treat for their money.

Leg, I would definetely chose to lose a leg over an arm.

If you HAD to choose between an arm and a leg..

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