NON-Hockey Trivia

For all who are tired of hockey posts, I give you some non-hockey trivia. As usual, these are from mental_floss.

4 Amusing Celebrity Lawsuits

* During a concert, Kenny Rogers tossed a Frisbee, which hit a chandelier, which crashed down and ... rendered a dude impotent? True or not, the dude sued.

* A casino dealer sued Dennis Rodman for rubbing dice on the dealer's bald head and groin for luck.

* British rock band Led Zeppelin possibly sidestepped a lawsuit by Eva von Zeppelin (related to Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, inventor of the zeppelin) by playing in her country,Denmark, as the Nobs.

* Penthouse magazine was sued by the following: Anna Kournikova, a nude woman who looked like Anna Kournikova, and a bunch of disappointed "readers" hoping to read about Anna Kournikova.

Not everyone who trains in medicine sticks with it

Take these folks who wisely opted for other fields:

* John Keats: He trained as a surgical apprentice, but was distracted and weakened by tuberculosis and dropped out of training to write poetry.

* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A failed ophthalmologist, he based Sherlock Holmes' powers of deductive reasoning on the method he had learned in med school.

* Michael Crichton: He started writing his trademark scientific suspense novels while studying at Harvard Medical School.

* Graham Chapman: This Monty Python alum left medicine for comedy, and the world's a better place for it. Of course, if he'd taken to his profession, we might never have seen such seminal skits as the Ministry of Silly Walks or the Upper Class Twit of the Year Contest.

* Anton Chekhov: In his early career, the playwright alternated between writing and medicine, focusing on one when the other wasn't going well.

How to Tell If a Body is Dead

If your patient fits these criteria, you've probably messed up:

* The patient isn't breathing.

* The patient's limbs are stiff.

* The patient's eyes are "fixed and dilated."

* The patient's skin is blue or paper-white.

* The patient's EKG looks like something out of Flatliners.

* The patient has no reflexes.

* The patient doesn't mind if you hit him upside the head.

But don't despair just yet: A few conditions – hypothermia, for instance – may cause your patient to appear dead by many of these standards, even though he's not.