Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for February 13, 2025

That’s a good Question!

I don’t see anyone without their pants.

I’m impressed he can even pronounce it.

They are cheating. They have gauges instead of mercury columns. The school would go into a toxic spill meltdown over a broken fluorescent tube, and the nursing department refused to give up a dozen mercury sphygmomanometers with several ounces of liquid mercury in each one until we showed that they were obsolete and dangerous.

I can remember supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and forget to put on my pants. Does that count?

Sometimes those things do not really work well. My doc uses them, but then does manual at the end of the visit just to compare.

They also carry them in case your arm is too big (or small) for their available cuffs.

I find that the old system is used to verify abnormal readings.

My mother is at stage 6 Alzheimer’s. She can’t remember one minute to the next. But she can remember what she was doing, and with whom, on October 24, 1953.

Because newer isn’t always better, that’s why.

I cut up my right hand in an accident at work and was bleeding profusely. When I got to the hospital, they used the blood pressure cuff for a tourniquet. They put it on my upper arm and pumped it up to the maximum psi. I thought my arm was going to break.

I remember that “Leave it to Beaver” was the first series to be allowed to show a view of a bathroom, but I was known in more recent times to leave the toilet seat up just before my wife had a sudden bathroom urge. Neither item improved my social standing.