the 140 pound tumor crosses the line
the 140 pound tumor crosses the line
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#1the 140 pound tumor crosses the line
Posted: 2/11/09 at 5:17pm
Oprah loves her Nate, her Bob Green, and especially now that she's full of figure again, her Dr. Oz. But did anyone, anywhere, think the 15 minutes devoted to the 140 pound tumor belonged on television? The poor bewildered woman who had it removed sat there, mouth agape, as they dragged on, covered in a silk cloth, a huge shiny pink model of not one but two enormous growths excised from behind her intestines. All of this is to support the thesis du jour: "get a second opinion." All I could think about is the opening scene of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, when the old man is kicked to demonstrate his reactions. And did the staff members of Oprah all say "I get to keep the pink tumor prop!" "No, you got the wagon Oprah put her chicken fat in, the pink slab of faux cancer is MINE!" Really, the mind goes to this places.
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Updated On: 2/11/09 at 05:17 PM
#2re: the 140 pound tumor crosses the line
Posted: 2/11/09 at 5:31pmWhat, no pictures? I gotta see this.
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morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#2re: the 140 pound tumor crosses the line
Posted: 2/11/09 at 8:42pm
Is this it? Or was it another tumor?
#3re: the 140 pound tumor crosses the line
Posted: 2/11/09 at 8:46pm
Ew. Ew.
But WHOOOOOOOOOOA
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#4re: the 140 pound tumor crosses the line
Posted: 2/11/09 at 9:45pmi was sure this was going to be about prefontaine.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
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...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#5re: the 140 pound tumor crosses the line
Posted: 2/11/09 at 10:11pmlol
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#6re: the 140 pound tumor crosses the line
Posted: 2/12/09 at 8:57am
I cannot believe a photograph exists of that moment.
"Oprah's favorite things" indeed.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
#7re: the 140 pound tumor crosses the line
Posted: 2/12/09 at 9:28amThere was a show on Discovery Health about a woman with a 200 pound tumor that was absorbing all the blood from her body. I believe it was on right in between a special about a girl born without a face and another special about a woman without legs.
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#8re: the 140 pound tumor crosses the line
Posted: 2/12/09 at 11:09amIt's "suffering porn". Of course Oprah's on it like white on rice.
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