Watching a TV commercial for a fitness program that promises to give you "rock-hard abs", I wondered if rock-hard abs are really an entirely good thing. Couldn't there be a downside?
DOCTOR: "I'm sorry, there's nothing we can do. Your husband is going to die."
WOMAN: "But it's just appendicitis. That's not fatal, is it?"
DOCTOR: "No, not usually, but our puny medical instruments are no match for his rock-hard abs. There's no way we can get in there."
WOMAN: "What about lasers?"
DOCTOR: "The buff, granitelike surface of his torso would cause the laser beam to ricochet all over the operating room, killing everyone in it. We just can't take that chance."
WOMAN: "Sob."
DOCTOR: "There, there."
Besides, if you could make any part of your body "rock-hard" would abs really be your first choice?
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