Monday, May 17, 2010

ODS, Skin Cancer & An Unusual Request From An Animal Shelter

Congratulations to Miss Michigan, Rima Fakih, the new Miss U.S.A., and the first Muslin American to win that title. Although my money was on Miss Oklahoma (I picked her from the beginning of the pageant and just thought she had the best shot at winning), I will admit Fakih is a very pretty girl.In fact, she's is so hot, she could've won the swimsuit competition wearing a burqa.

Every morning this week, I'm going to give you the chance to call in and win a family four-pack of tickets to this Saturday night's races at Old Dominion Speedway. Then, at the end of the week, we'll draw a grand prize winner. That person will get a ride-along experience on the track Saturday night against me. Our winner will be drawn from those who won a family four-pack this week. If you win a four-pack, you're eligible for the drawing for the ride-along experience. So, do the math: If you win one one the prize packs this week, your chances of winning the grand prize are one-in-five. Tomorrow morning, your chance to win the four-pack will come in the eight o'clock hour.

Speaking of winning, I will also have a chance for you to win a family four-pack of tickets to The Thunder Concerts In The Park Series at Patriot Park for next Saturday Night when we play More's Mystery in the morning. Here's a little headstart for you: The subject of More's Mystery tomorrow morning was in detox at the age of eight.

It's very hard to get people to alter their behavior. To illustrate this, lets look at some poll numbers from a survey conducted by HealthDay.com concerning tanning and skin cancer. Of the 7,000 Americans surveyed, 80% say they want to avoid skin cancer. However 72% said they believe a tan looks good, and over 60% said they think a tan makes a person look healthier. But I want to go back to the first figure for a moment: 80% said they want to avoid skin cancer. I want to know more about the 20% who DON'T want to avoid skin cancer. Wouldn't you love to sit down and talk to these balloon-heads for a few minutes just to see what makes them tick.

I actually had little skin cancer scare about four years ago. Talk about a sun-worshiper, that was me! In fact, I didn't just hang and tan in the sun, but went to a tanning salon on top of it, and I did this for years. As I got a little older, I was smart enough to start going in for regular skin screenings. It was during one of these, the doctor discovered a squamous cell carcinoma, a very common form of skin cancer and fortunatley, very easy to remove. People ask me if I think I got it from the sun or the tanning salon. I'm pretty sure I got it from the tanning salon because of WHERE it was located on my body. I'll let your imagination take it from there.

But it defintely caused me to cut down on my tanning.

Finally, in keeping with the medical theme (in a way), there's a dog at My Little Shelter & Adoption Center in Huntington, Long Island, New York who needs Viagra. I'm not making this up. Ingrid is a six-year-old Pit Bull with a heart condition, and needs two of these little blue pills a day, or she will risk heart failure. Most people forget, or just never knew, that originally, Viagra was developed as a heart medication. Of course, these days, it's used by human males for......................well.....................other reasons. The pills cost about ten to twelve dollars a piece, and the shelter is asking men to pitch in and donate their unused pills. Most of the men I know who use this stuff don't have any UNUSED pills. Anyway, if you're interested in helping out, their website address is http://www.littleshelter.com/ .

A Pit Bull on Viagra..........................I don't think I'd want to be anywhere near that scenario.

The good news is if this dog can hang in there, soon every dog in the United States will be entitled to FREE Viagra under the OH-bama healthcare plan.

posted by Denny  # 4:47 PM

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