» On 1/16/2017 08:30:00 PM Mountain Standard Time, Alan wrote:
Are You A Gleeker? 

So, I'm in the dentist chair this afternoon, flat on my back, and the doc is doing some minor oral surgery. Drill, drill, drill, scrape, scrape, scrape, laser, laser, laser. Eventually, he takes a short break, leaving my mouth propped open. I try to swallow, and a huge geyser of saliva involuntarily sprays about three inches high above my face, falling back to soak everything from my eyebrows to my chin. The doc and his assistant are trying hard not to notice or comment, but it's obvious that a disturbing event has occurred. I've experienced this phenomenon before, but the squirts were always tiny, and they dropped back into my mouth immediately.

So after the doc takes out the rubber chew toy that's been propping my mouth open, I decide to broach the subject delicately: "What the hell just happened? Am I the only one who does this? I nearly drowned!"

They both laugh and say that it's called "gleeking," and a lot of patients do it. The assistant says she sometimes does it involuntarily, while talking to people. Gleeker Extraordinaire. She also claims to have friends who do it at parties, to entertain the crowd. Gleeker Showoffs. She's a veritable fount of knowledge. So to speak.

Evidently, gleeking occurs spontaneously when saliva that has accumulated in the submandibular gland is propelled out in a stream after the gland is compressed accidentally by the tongue.

Wikipedia says 35% of people can gleek, but fewer than 1% of the population can gleek on command. Do you gleek?

 
» On 1/13/2017 01:25:00 PM Mountain Standard Time, Alan wrote:
I AM NOT PART OF THE CROWDSOURCE, I AM A FREE MAN! 

Re: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Cs-VIDKSY

and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing

and https://www.facebook.com/editor

 
» On 1/01/2017 12:01:00 AM Mountain Standard Time, Alan wrote:
Boldog új évet kívánok! 

(Hungarian for Happy New Year!) Or BÚÉK [ boo-AYK ], for short.