Tag: Mr. Bean

Oh, Boy! DIY Medicine!

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All right, maybe it’s not as bad as having Mr. Bean for your doctor…

I went to the labs today, expecting to have a certain test ordered by my doctor. The nurse came out, took my prescription slip, and came back in 30 seconds with a “kit” (I guess you’d call it a kit) for doing the test yourself, at home.

I am not a fan of D.I.Y. medicine. To me it looks like an attempt to shift responsibility to the patient. “Well, we told him how to do it, we can’t help it if he fonged it up!”

What’s next–Do-It-Yourself abdominal surgery? “Each kit contains a brand-new scalpel–and enough anesthetic to knock out a water buffalo!” Is that where we’re headed?

I am distracted, and have no idea what to put on this blog today.

Rowan Atkinson Fights for Free Speech

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Rowan Atkinson, one of the funniest comedians ever born–think “Mr. Bean”–is crusading for a restoration of free speech in the United Kingdom: and the rest of the Western world, for that matter. After all, it’s virtually impossible for comedy to exist if you’re not allowed to insult, shock, embarrass, or poke fun at anybody. And it has always been an indispensable safety valve. There comes a point where you just can’t keep any more frustration bottled up without the whole thing exploding.

But in Britain the law, if we may call it that, boils down to this: You can be arrested and punished for just about anything you say, on the grounds that someone, somewhere, might possibly be offended by it.

Another factor to consider: a tyrannical government can be undermined by comedy. Maybe even overthrown, if the satirist’s barbs are sharp enough.

We need comedy! I don’t believe we can keep our sanity without it.

The Siren Song of Mr. Bean

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We have discovered a raft of Mr. Bean episodes on YouTube, episodes we’ve never seen before because our New Jersey TV channel was too cheap to present but a few of them. And that was years ago.

I’ve been to the store and to the laundry, again, today, I’ve been stuck at traffic lights that stopped working, I am tired… and as I scan the nooze, I can feel my head coming to a point.

I can almost see Mr. Bean pointing to the computer screen and beckoning us to join him. Get some belly-laughs.

Can I do this? Will readers desert me if I do?

The temptation is… acute.

Lawsuit: ‘I am not Mr. Bean!’

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A Social Justice Studies professor at Mordor State University has sued a fictional character for “making people think I’m him.”

Dr. Che Lastima says the well-known comic character, Mr. Bean, was purposely created by racists to be an identical duplicate of him, “so as to make my students laugh at me,” he told several random passers-by. “They even got him sitting on a chair on top of a car, because I do that.”

The lawsuit, filed at Porky’s Mini-Golf Park across the street from the campus, demands that Mr. Bean’s creators, if they can be found, pay the professor $895 million in damages. No one at Porky’s, which is closed until Memorial Day, was available for comment.

“I’ll show them they can’t do this to an intellectual!” said the professor.

Bonus Video: Mr. Bean in the Waiting Room

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For a while there Rowan Atkinson stopped doing comedy because he was afraid he’d be thrown in jail for making someone laugh: Political Correctness in action. But he has left us a wonderful legacy in hilarious “Mr. Bean” videos. Watch how he makes use of his time in the dentist’s waiting room.