Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for April 29, 2021

Perhaps she should use a thermometer rather than a swizzle stick.

Getting the mercury wrist shake right takes some practice. Try again, Connie.

Just where are you putting that thermometer, Connie?

Finally! I was thinking that they would never get to absolute zero.

She’s a cold fish.

Later she realized that her temperature was gone because the doctor had taken it the week before. Then she was plussed again.

Coool!

Maybe Connie should try one of those thermometer guns that they point at your head to get your temp.

What’s the difference between an oral and a rectal thermometer? The taste

For the correct or incorrect use of “nonplussed”?

Body temperature to match her IQ?

Nonplussed is not like disgruntled. You can’t be plussed but you can be gruntled.

You ALWAYS have a temperature, normal is around 98.6. It may be a fever she is looking for.

If I were her, I’d now be a bit leery of taking my pulse…

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She has assumed room temperature?

But it did turn blue. :)

That would come as no surprise to her husband.. He noticed a chill for a few weeks now.

Good morning Balladeers, (((((Plods))))) and Miss Susan.

The residents of Ballard Street need the new thermometer that you aim and shoot. The fun for them would be endless.

This one cracked me up. In my life, I’ve been asked by a few different nurses if I had a temperature when they must have meant fever. I had to add a sore, bitten tongue to the list of what was ailing me.

Connie has a temperature. It’s 98.6F. But Connie can’t really see the mercury, so she thinks it has gone somewhere.