neurosurgeon monologue

February 16, 2012 1:38 PM

I'm looking for a MeFi (or maybe AskMeFi) comment written as the monologue of a neurosurgeon with a heavy (phonetically spelled out) New York accent. He says something about how he's taking an alternative approach to open up (something) by going through (something), which is not the standard method because if some random schmuck were to try it, well, forget about it. Also, something about a ham sandwich. Hope me?

Unfortunately, Google cannot help me because the spelling reflects his accent ("fuhgeddaboudid" etc.) and it appears there's a user named sammich whose comments make up the bulk of my hits.

posted by d. z. wang to MetaFilter-Related at 1:38 PM (26 comments total)

you can remove sammich's contributions in google by just typing

-"posted by sammich"

as part of your query. See if that helps? I have no idea what you are talking about otherwise.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:52 PM on February 16, 2012 [1 favorite]

I think that was a Smedlyman comment.
posted by P.o.B. at 3:15 PM on February 16, 2012

That sounds familiar, which probably means I saw it in a list of highly favorited comments and answers. Maybe check the popular comments pages here or the lists on the infodumpster?
posted by FishBike at 3:17 PM on February 16, 2012 [1 favorite]

Here?
posted by supercres at 3:23 PM on February 16, 2012 [2 favorites]

(You didn't think to search for "fuckin craniotomy"? I have a Google alert set up for that mess.)
posted by supercres at 3:26 PM on February 16, 2012 [3 favorites]

Good catch.

He tends to be verbose and prolific, so it was kinda tough looking through his comments. To be more specific, though, it's Smedleyman - with an e.
posted by P.o.B. at 3:28 PM on February 16, 2012

Ah, thank you, supercres, that is exactly it.

Bonus question: is the operation he describes anything close to plausible?
posted by d. z. wang at 3:45 PM on February 16, 2012

I'm no neurosurgeon but it seems plausible. Aneurysm, hematoma, medial approach, suture the dura. Those words make sense to me in context. Next time I see an MD coworker, I know what I'm asking him.
posted by supercres at 3:51 PM on February 16, 2012

If he wants to go to your uncle's restaurant for a date?
posted by ODiV at 3:59 PM on February 16, 2012 [1 favorite]

Holy shit, dat's fuckin' hilarious right dere.
posted by zarq at 4:03 PM on February 16, 2012

It's because you searched sammich, not sangwich, which is the more technically correct New Yorkese.
posted by rabbitrabbit at 4:27 PM on February 16, 2012

My conversation with a doctor stitching my head when some guy on a rugby field hit me with his elbow.

Me: "You're using two hands."
Her: "Yes."
"Well, Dr. Carter on ER had this nifty one-handed knot trick for stitching."
--silence--
"I mean, did they teach you that?"
"Teach me what?"
"The one-handed knot thing."
"No."
--silence--
"It was cool. He held the suture with a clamp and then did this like flippy thing with his wrist..."
"Did you lose consciousness at any point?"
"No. Why?"
"Just asking."

Years later, I still have no idea whether or not she was fucking with me right there.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 5:08 PM on February 16, 2012 [5 favorites]

Holy shit, dat's fuckin' hilarious right dere.

Fuckin' A, yo.
posted by jonmc at 5:11 PM on February 16, 2012

I remember watching Dr. Carter do his nifty one-handed knot trick. I definitely lost consciousness.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 5:49 PM on February 16, 2012 [1 favorite]

I work with some folks with some hard-core New England accents - deep woods ME and New Hampshire, Revere, and a couple of Rhode Islanders. We're one of the go-to teams for certain types of networking issues, and the accents can be entertaining when everyone is worked up and not paying attention to it.

RI'er - Jeeze, guy, ya gotcha raouwts all fuggedup in deyah.
Maineiac - Ayuh suh. Looks like a rootin' problem, fa sha.
Revere - Check out that loop, kid, it's wicked messed up. No wunda ain't no paggits gettin' thru.
New Hampsterite - Finda nutha nexthawp awlready, that'n's no gooditall.
Texan on the conference call - "I have no idea what you all just said."
New Yorker - "Got nuthin."
posted by Slap*Happy at 8:34 PM on February 16, 2012 [12 favorites]

Why do folks on here say "hope me" so often? Is it a Mefi-ism, or some kind of autocorrect, or ...?
posted by feets at 1:26 AM on February 17, 2012

'hope me' - it's in the wiki. I assume, cause it kinda has to be; but yeah, it's an in joke.
posted by From Bklyn at 2:41 AM on February 17, 2012

From Bklyn: "it's an in joke."

Aren't jokes supposed to be...I dunno... funny?
posted by Grither at 3:40 AM on February 17, 2012 [1 favorite]

It has to do with the first comment in this thread, but yeah, ten years on, the "joke" is beyond stale.
posted by gman at 3:45 AM on February 17, 2012

ten years on, the "joke" is beyond stale.

HOW DARE YOU. PLEASE HOPE TO YOURSELF TO THE NEAREST EXIT.
posted by RJ Reynolds at 5:02 AM on February 17, 2012 [1 favorite]

Bonus question: is the operation he describes anything close to plausible?

I work in the OR with neurosurgeons a good bit and that is a pretty good overview of an aneurysm clipping (although very abbreviated). It is hilarious as well. It reminds me of a pediatric urologist I work with who is from New York. He doesn't have a very thick accent, until he starts talking about the Yankees.
posted by TedW at 6:06 AM on February 17, 2012

What's this New York accent you guise talkin' about? I ain't never hoid it.
posted by Splunge at 6:29 AM on February 17, 2012

Two bridges away. Too Cake Bossy.
posted by Sys Rq at 10:10 AM on February 17, 2012 [1 favorite]

That thread is a hideous mess, but worth it for this, as well as a pretty great story from Sonascope later on.
posted by longtime_lurker at 11:52 AM on February 17, 2012 [2 favorites]

Has Sonascope ever not told a pretty great story?
posted by Rory Marinich at 4:33 PM on February 17, 2012

Here's sonascope's post because it showed up too late in that thread for me to catch it the first time, and I'm really glad longtime_lurker pointed it out now.
posted by xqwzts at 10:16 AM on February 19, 2012