Dragon's Lair and Kaboom FTW!

The ET movie had essentially nothing to do with the game. Seeing or not seeing it would in no way change your understanding of the game.

I think the "P" stands for "professional".

Ok, by the time you posted this brain fart of a post, the story had been up for ~six hours with a myriad of comments. The original article, many comments, and the summary all point out that this study involved elective surgeries or 'planned surgery'. Did you read anything other than the headline? Did you not understand "planned surgery"?

Weird, maybe you need to find a better group of specialists. I can tell you from first hand experience, at least one of Dick Cheney's cardiologists does surgeries after Wednesday. Now, I'm not saying he's the best cardiologist in the world, but I'd be willing to bet that someone as wealthy and connected as the Evil Dick wasn't being treated by people who could barely sober up enough to get through Hollywood Upstairs Medical College.

Coming from a family with a doctor and multiple nurses, I can say you are spot on. Another factor is that some doctors and nurses, particularly in emergency medicine, prefer the cases that come in at night and on the weekends.

GP had an interesting theory, but given the way it's worded, it's merely a troll rather than an alternative hypothesis.

(Oh, and three shifts for nurses is not as common an arrangement as it used to be. GF has almost exclusively worked 12 hour shifts for ~10 years.)

And yet Ms. Pac Man on the same system displayed nowhere near the same amount of suckitude.

That would be the opinion of the poster. Opinion is pretty well protected by the first amendment. Further, they are neither true nor false. (TBH, it might be part of a falsifiable statement, but the way you have presented it, I rather doubt that is the case.)

But does he know Jimmy, Sally or Suzy from Canada?

Speaking as a government contractor, I can assure you there's at least one more way to get paid for not doing something.

Why shouldn't you? You didn't take any vows or make any promises.

While you're busy looking up stuff the old timers lived through, you may want to check out an oldfag meme: "DOS/Windows (depending on the time frame) ain't done until Lotus won't run"

If your mother thinks CSI is real, she's got bigger issues than we can address here on slashdot.

No, they'll want to emphasize the 1, so obviously 3.11.

I'd go to tvtropes to try to figure it out, but I would like to be at least a little productive for the rest of the week.

Tribal warfare over exclusive drug distribution areas ain't my fucking problem.