I've got no peristalsis!!!

[devilish]

That's going to make swallowing those cookies difficult.

I was thinking the same thing, Wulf. I thought peristalsis was
esophageal.

Well it used to be a cup of coffee a smoke and a check of the email in the morning. Unfortunately I quit smoking about 5 years ago.

Not to stray too off topic, but did anyone watch the "House, M.D." show
when it was on. Guy comes in with intestinal problems, and Doc House
gruffly says "Take two cigarettes each day, no more, no less....everything
will go just fine." The head of the hospital says "WTF?" and he says "Hey,
I'm prescribing the only legal drug on the market!"

 

[Castellan]

Currently sitting down with half a dozen or so oatmeal raisin cookies. Things should be better in the morning...

Don't forget to drink more water. Regularly (pardon the pun).

Most of us gamers are used to sitting around and drinking heavily-carbonated/heavily-caffeinated beverages. Add to that the fact that most modern people aren't drinking enough water anyway, and you've got a recipe for disaster.

Just try drinking one 8-ounce glass of water every hour more than you usually do. There are a host of problems that can be solved with additional water. Googling will help with the answers, but they include: regularity, reduction of incontinence (usually only in older folks, but as people drink less water, their bladders become less elastic and don't "snap back" the way they're supposed to), more energy during the day, and more productive sleep at night.

Replace one Code Red with a 12-ounce water during your next gaming session, too. It won't kill you, and if anything, it'll help give your mouth a break so you can enjoy that next beverage even more!

 

[Raging Epistaxis]

I was thinking the same thing, Wulf. I thought peristalsis was esophageal.

It is. But also Gastric, Duodenal, Jejunal, Ileic, Colonic, Ureteral and Urethric as well. There are probably others that I'm missing, but that's most of them.

Truly, a person with no peristalsis is in a world of hurt! (and about to explode, I'd suspect)

For the curious, definitions.

R E

 

[EricNoah]

Duodenal

Tangent: "Ouch, my duodenum!" was a quote from the AU game I ran on Sunday. PC got nearly gutted from a x4 critical by a scythe-wielding redcap!

And now, back to the scatalogical discussion...

 

[Umbran]

Are cookies really the best thing for that, though?

Oatmeal has goodly portions of both soluble and insoluble fiber.

 

[jaerdaph]

I really could have gone to my grave not ever knowing that...

 

[Lefferts]

The cereal Raisin Bran always helps for me.

 

[Mystery Man]

And everything is now moving in the right direction again....

 

[Krieg]

Prune juice is great, budweiser also can help lots of budwieser!

In that case I would suggest Schlitz.

It doesn't sound suspiciously like another word for nothing.

 

[HellHound]

Tangent: "Ouch, my duodenum!" was a quote from the AU game I ran on Sunday. PC got nearly gutted from a x4 critical by a scythe-wielding redcap!

And now, back to the scatalogical discussion...

Brilliant. Thanks Eric.

Just for that, I'm sending you a copy of hooked hammers.

But back on topic, we usually use the Encino Man classic "Ow, my pancreas" instead... but I'll be sure to slip in an "arghhh... my duodenum" when an NPC gets the shaft.

---

A little in-character text like that helps a game sometimes... we had an NPC wizard trying to get away, casting a few summon monster spells while invisible... and then we figured out his general area and the druid cast Faerie Fire. The wizard made his spellcraft roll so he knew what was coming. Just before the spell ends, we all hear a nice, clear "Crap!" from the vicininity of the wizard.