MetaFilter posts tagged with choking

there's simply not enough cyanide

Potomac Avenue — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:23:05 -0800

Easy access to the internet and simplified technology for recording songs and videos might do great things for the future of pop music. Or it might be like this. Terrified responses abound. bonus reply from "PhatJ", possible musician Happily Brokencyde isn't the only product of the genre bending, often tongue-in-cheek mashup genre of Electrascreemorap. I Set My Friends On Fire might be a viable antidote, unless the poison has already spread too far !

Former GOP Sen. Hecht owes life to Democratic candidate Kerry

Postroad — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:59:29 -0800

Former GOP Sen. Hecht owes life to Democratic candidate Kerry "Former U.S. Sen. Chic Hecht of Nevada is a staunch Republican, but he thanks his lucky stars for Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts. On July 12, 1988, Hecht was attending a weekly Republican luncheon when a piece of apple lodged firmly in his throat." via Eschaton (Atrios)

Choke, Gag, Wheeeeef!

Pancake Overlord — Sun, 16 Mar 2003 06:26:24 -0800

Heimlich falsely claims he invented surgical procedure. Have you ever been choking in a lovely restaurant and suddenly felt the hands of God around you, releasing forth the offending object? Henry Heimlich has long taken all of the credit for this procedure, though it had apparently been performed by Romanian doctor Dan Gavriliu at least four years before Heimlich started to make his claims.