Which would you rather have down your throat?

Date: 27 May 2009 10:21:53

We had a SCORPIO today. I'm not quite sure what SCORPIO stands for, but it involves moving through different stations with things to learn. Today there were some life support stations and a few others. In one of the rooms the tutor was Canadian. She explained how when you are intubating an infant, it is good to insert the stylet into your tube and bend the end so that it looks like a hockey stick. She looked nervous as she said this, and told us that she was always worried that she'd be lynched by people who say that "hockey" refers to the game played on either grass or synthetic grass. When she says hockey she means the game played on ice. Which we call ice hockey. Anyway, this is important because the sticks used in these two forms of hockey are quite different. Being Canadian she cannot say "ice hockey" because there is no such thing - "hockey" means "hockey played on ice". Hence she has to say hockey and then cower. Luckily in my group of 6 students there were three Canadians and one American. And two of us who don't really care what the game is called (although I maintain that hockey was originally played on grass and hence the term without any playing-medium qualifier refers to hockey played on grass).