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A New Pain Scale.
Sep 16^th, 2010 at 11:24am

This is from "Hyperbole and a Half", an online blog/comic strip that I follow from time to time. It's a riff on the standard illustrated "pain scale", often seen in the doctor's office:

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Just thought it might be laugh-worthy to other twisted souls here. Wink

Check out some of the other posts, too, if you have the time.

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George

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Jeannie CH.com Sponsor Offline Live, Laugh, Love.... Posts: 2333 St Louis, Missouri Gender:	Re: A New Pain Scale. Reply #1 - Sep 16^th, 2010 at 12:16pm If the last pic had been bleeding from just one eye I would think a Clusterhead made the chart. Jeannie
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Racer1_NC CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline "Well, let's go see." Posts: 4417 Lewisville, NC Gender:	Re: A New Pain Scale. Reply #2 - Sep 16^th, 2010 at 12:26pm Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or
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BigMatt CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Live to ride, ride to live. Posts: 1089 Mountain View, CA Gender:	Re: A New Pain Scale. Reply #3 - Sep 16^th, 2010 at 3:23pm That was friggen great, thanks for posting it.
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Linda_Howell CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline Do not feed the Moderators Posts: 11927 Santa Maria, Ca. Gender:	Re: A New Pain Scale. Reply #4 - Sep 16^th, 2010 at 5:30pm The chart was hilarious and so were some of the comments.
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Lettucehead CH.com Old Timer Offline I am very blessed... Posts: 293 Iowa Gender:	Re: A New Pain Scale. Reply #5 - Sep 16^th, 2010 at 5:32pm hahahahaha! I'm looking through some of her other posts as well - excellent!!!
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sandie99 CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Wish it, dream it, do it - inspite the pain! Posts: 11975 Finland Gender:	Re: A New Pain Scale. Reply #6 - Sep 17^th, 2010 at 5:07am That was great, thank you. Sanna
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Guiseppi CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline San Diego to Florida 05-16-2011 Posts: 12063 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA USA Gender:	Re: A New Pain Scale. Reply #7 - Sep 17^th, 2010 at 9:09am While it certainly won't replace the venerable KIP.....I do like the writing style! Joe
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JustNotRight CH.com Sponsor Offline CH version 15.0.8 member since 2005 aka GingerS224 Posts: 1300 Wilkes-Barre, Pa (USA) Gender:	Re: A New Pain Scale. Reply #8 - Sep 17^th, 2010 at 9:37am This twisted soul was till she realized she'd been a few of those faces. Today I am at a constant... Quote: 4: My pain is not fucking around. ...thanks to a severe sinus infection. Good Post Thanks!
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LadyLuv CH.com Alumnus Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 1495 Champaign, IL Gender:	Re: A New Pain Scale. Reply #9 - Sep 17^th, 2010 at 10:49am Linda_Howell wrote on Sep 16^th, 2010 at 5:30pm: The chart was hilarious and so were some of the comments. Lady Luv
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Carl D CH.com Hall of Famer Offline 25+ years CH Veteran Posts: 640 \|St. Louis\|MO, USA Gender:	Re: A New Pain Scale. Reply #10 - Sep 22^nd, 2010 at 4:25pm PRICELESS!!! I'll never forget back in the day when I would say I got an 11. Man, I'd get reamed. "There is no 11 on the pain scale! You can't go past 10!!!" Apparently, no one had ever seen "This Is 'Spinal Tap'" and didn't catch the "These go to eleven" reference.
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Melissa CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline Don't give up! Posts: 7238 Central WI, USA Gender:	Re: A New Pain Scale. Reply #11 - Sep 22^nd, 2010 at 10:07pm That chart is perfect for here! We'd have people getting 10's all the time tho, and that's sad ...... .
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