Donor Tony's grandma ended up going to the hospital. Do not worry! She is doing fine. Anyway, they gave her this shirt of which she, and then her grandson, had no use. This shirt is now in my possession and anyone in the world can potentially read about it.

Myself, I have never suffered a wound worth going to the hospital over. I have suffered a few wounds in my time. The deepest wound on my body was from the time I used a knife to cut the strip holding some newspaper advertisements together and ended up cutting my thumb pretty deep. I went home where my parents gave first aid and then I went back out and delivered the newspapers a couple hours later. Indirectly, I suffered a cut to my forehead on a dishwasher and almost died, but the wound in this case was considered trivial compared to my lack of conciousness.

Therefore, I have never actually visited either St. Elizabeth's nor St. Joseph's Wound Centers. I have been inside St. Elizabeth Medical Center quite a few times. One of those times was for my own birth.

What makes the idea of this shirt so delicious is that it is a pun. Those who really know me know that I enjoy a good pun. In high school, I even put myself on a pun a day regiment to try to attain the worst pun possible. At first, people laughed to make me feel beter, but soon there just stopped being any reaction. I did not stop until I got bored with the form for a little bit.

Puns, or really any other play on words, are to me far more interesting and funny than petit sarcasm or petit irony. It seems that America is quite fond of laughing at themselvers or other people saying or doing the opposite of what they really intend.

I think that it takes more effort to think of a joke that not does not depend on situation. Although language itself might be considered a situation, it is a shared situation that many more people can understand and thus appreciate. Furthermore, to be able to positively construct something is more commendable than simply negatively distancing oneself from something else. Since we Americans of this era are constantly racing to the bottom, I do not see how some of the real groaners that come from plays of words are not celebrated for being terrible while at least having some dignity within them. Perhaps it is too much work or the overabundence of humor that prevents Americans from appreciating a PUNishing pun.

I have never seen the movie Gone With The Wind, of which the pun on this shirt derives. When people talk at me about movies they sometimes mention it as a "great movie", whatever that means when people will accept anything presented to them on a Friday night. I do know the line, "Frankly, dear I don't give a damn" is from that movie but I do not know the context. Well, I do know that Gone With The Wind is a dramatic story of a relationship between some man and some woman set in the Civil War era South that orignally came out in the late 1930's. I do not know how being frank about not giving a damn fits in or is so important as to elevate into the American subconcious the way that it has. Frankly, I don't give a damn either.