Fascinating.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4623280.stm
More illogical commentary at the Beeb…
Bones…it’s a…kidney..stone.
Dammit Jim, I’m a Doctor not a mason.
Very good chuckle, thanks. It is nice to know that Bill Shatner can poke fun at himself and be charitable at the same time. 
Talk about giving a piece of yourself to benefit humanity. 
I…CAN’T…TAKE IT…ANYMORE…SHIELDS!!!
KHAN!!!
The thing’s a stent, not a “stint.” How are the mighty fallen… 
So what’s next? Other celebrities won’t want to be outdone. $50K for Brad Pitt’s appendix? Do I hear $75K for Halle Berry’s gallbladder? Going…going…
All that star worship has stinted their growth. 
That’s Shatner’s face as he passed the stone…
74-years-old?!
He can’t be that old! Maybe it’s like that one original Star Trek episode where they all age (The Deadly Years?).
Now I’m feeling old…
Grows on ya, don’t it? 
“The operation is said to be excruciatingly painful, and the auction price includes the surgical stint and string used to permit passage of the stone.”
This reminds me of my party trick of opening a bottle of wine with just a knotted shoelace: You push the cork in then dangle the lace in till the knot is below the cork then pull both out together. [/quote]
What are all you lot smirking about? Let him who is without sin cast the first…er…
Oh, bugger it…
Steve
You’ve got a lot of gall. 
djm
Y’all are stoned.
What on…this??
Steve
Sure, and add a little this:
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More than once I’ve simply pushed the cork in. Why bother with the string and cork? Oh, it’s a trick…
EVERYBODY must get stoned…
(note-- there was supposed to be a picture of Bob Dylan here. When I hit preview, it worked but when I checked the posting on the thread, there was this silly tripod thing)