I just caught a line on Maher's Real Time on HBO. He was kvetching about being irritated by online vendors asking for feedback, saying he didn't want to get that involved; he just wants to buy stuff and move on. Maher said to these vendors:

"The extent of our relationship is: I put in my credit card number, and you send me a big bottle of Canadian Vicodin."

Oh yeah? Really. I think Maher's writers are seriously out of touch with the reality of obtaining prescription meds online. I've certainly not heard of folks getting any 'big bottles of Canadian Vicodin', and certainly not by merely giving a cc#.

Funny, to think political comedy writers (and it could've been Maher himself who wrote the line, for all I know) would still be depending on the silliness of some of those scare stories we've all seen - the ones where you can get Oxycontin and Vicodin "with a few clicks of the mouse". That was never true, even when the ROPs were still operating.

That was clearly a joke. If anyone can find drugs, it is surely Bill. Besides, I believe he only smokes pot where it is LEGAL TO DO SO.

ughh.. ok

It might have been before my time, but I don't remember seeing or hearing anything about being able to get bottles of Vicodin from Canada. I know I've heard and still see that you can get them from "Mexico" of course through BI sites, but the writers for those shows definitely don't know their stuff.

A little off subject, but I personally liked the episodes of The Colbert Report where he had his arm broke and every episode you'd see him taking breaks to take his Vicodin, where one episode they'd come back from commerical break and he was smashing them on his desk with a spoon and putting it in his coffee and one where he was taking them out of his bottle and chewing them up like every five minutes LoL.

Obviously, sage visitor, it was a joke. A pointless joke that ws anythign but original. Once the lie that anyone can obtain pain meds easily over the internet got started, it was bought into by the masses and now comedians use it for a laugh.

Last season on the HBO (?) program, Nurse Jackie, they had an ER patient who Jackie immediately recognized was in withdrawal (gee, she's amazing). The patient said she started taking vicodin after a dental problem and liked it, and it was "so easy" to get over the internet....

Talk about writers being out of touch - and this was just one of many dumb lines/scenes from that show.

Geez, Bill needs to get his sh it together. I like the guy too much to see him screw up this way. Maybe I'll try emailing him for fun.

I remember that! It was really hilarious. He would pull out a huge bottle and just dump them in his mouth and then talk with his mouth full, pills falling in his lap.... It went on for a week or so. Hysterical!

Yeah i saw that. Dumbass line, that was. And I usually like Bill Maher.

Nurse Jackie takes capsules apart, snorts the little pills in them (i'm not hip enough to know what it is but it must be strong stuff for her bad back), steals this stuff from work and she STILL HAS A JOB AND NO RAP SHEET? Has NOT been busted? And she's stupid enough to have an ugly boyfriend for a pusher and a cute husband she cheats on?? Folks, I am not that stupid, I do have a doctorate in law but I don't practice....where I live she would be UNDER THE JAIL so quickly your eyeballs would get whiplash watching it.

What planet do they live on on Showtime anyway?

What education I don't get from Bill Maher I get from Penn and his sidekick hunka hunka burnin' love, Teller.

(Yeah I am weird, I think Teller is kinda cute).

I enjoy Nurse Jackie, but. Her husband is a great guy and great looking and about 10 years younger than her and she cheats with that blackmailing weasel? AND turned down his offer of roxies last episode after cheating with him? Oh, and she never seems to have any WD problems ever. I just don't get it. The writers are good with a joke but clueless about character motivation.

I haven't seen the Bill Maher episode, but his attempts at humor sometimes really miss. And I am really tired of hearing him talk about his weed. Every episode he brings it up. Grow up, weed-boy.

Teller IS cute, isn't he?

I really wanted to like Nurse Jackie - I think it's a good cast - but there is just so much about the show that doesn't ring true. Jackie's insubordination alone should get her canned. Also, for a busy urban ER, the staff seems to have way too much time on their hands.

I guess that's why I don't really watch that much TV. I sit there and pick everything apart. I also find I get distracted by actresses who have had their lips pumped up. I haven't seen too many that don't like ridiculous. I find that I can't seem to get past that with some characters (like Claudia Joy in Army Wives and Barb in Big Love).

No matter what, Canada is really only known for exporting MJ seeds and limited northern bud smuggling. I don't recall any source that were not scammers working out of CAN and certainly not for Vics.

Oh and nurse Whackie, would be terminated within one hour on the job. Yeah, go ahead and [censored] a Dr or two off. You are gone without question unless you have some leverage on them. It is so unrealistic I could never watch it.

Gotta cut Bill some slack. He was probably stoned out of his mind on BC. Bud and got it confused with Vicodin ?

On the other hand, rich entertainment types seem to have "Connections" ?
I recall "Rush" was getting cigar boxes of Oxy's from his maid ?


Bill makes me laugh, but yea, he says some dumb things, sometimes.
This statement was not helpful !!

Dennis Miller used to be funny in the old days, but not so much anymore.
Maybe Bill should send Miller a pound of BC. Bud ?
Might help Miller's career ?

I never see Denis anymore so why not give it a shot. HAHAHA

Dennis Miller sort of disappeared, some years ago, when he changed from being a roaring leftwinger to a sneering, carping rightwinger.

It was the oddest thing. Suddenly not only was he stupid, he was no longer funny. I've wondered about what might've happened to him, but only in passing, since I never liked him all that much to begin with.

I saw that, too! Colbert is so funny. But you know what bugs me? How is it that someone like Colbert can make use of pain meds so hysterically funny, but in our own lives, the reality is usually so much more serious, and even causes us to feel shame, rage and humiliation. Use of pain meds is stigmatized, period.

I think one of the reasons we DO find stuff like Colbert's joking around about the Vicodin so funny is that it's such a welcome relief from that stigma, and our constant dragging need for medicine to ease our pain. It's lovely to see it treated lightly, and joked about.

You know what I keep thinking? Television is busily riding that wave of the Anti-Hero. Like Tony Soprano, right? The protagonist who is actually a bad guy, a criminal, but viewers learn to love him anyway, and root for him.

Well, Nurse Jackie is an anti-hero, too. She's supposedly a crackerjack nurse - so good she can tell off doctors and administrators, as has been noted here, and still keep her job - but she's also an adulteress, and presumably although she's got some legitimate back pain, she also is abusing meds as well.

It even seems as though she might have carried on a sexual affair with the hospital's pharmacist in order to get meds, although that point isn't clear. Does she really care for Eddie, or is she just gaming him? I don't know if the writers have figured it out yet.

I'm like you, Gene - I want to like Nurse Jackie, but I'm a little worried about where the show is going.

BTW, the best role in the series is that of the nurse under Jackie - I can't think of her character's name. She is fantastic.

Well said, Gdgrrl. I think you are right-on about the Anti-Hero.

I love the character of Zoey. The actor's name is Merritt Wever. I looked her up on IMDB and now I know why we like her (well, besides how she plays her character). In her mini-bio it says she was "... raised by her mother as an active leftist. When not acting or protesting..."

Ha! That's funny. Always glad to see a talented, intelligent young'un embracing the path of righteousness.

Yeah, Zoe. Or however she spells it. I had seen her in something else just before I started watching Nurse Jackie, and she caught my eye right away.

Acting, storyline and time slot can be perfect. But as anyone in heath care knows, you never tell a Dr. off or you will seriously regret it. The premise is not even close to being accurate or anywhere near believable in real hospitals.

I don't know if a nurse can do half of what Jackie does but to me, she did "use" Eddie to get meds. Now she has a doctor as a "source" for oxy plus the PO Box with that bill from pharmacies. I am not sure what that signified except the obvious.

I like Dennis Miller. He can be hysterical, I am not basing this on his politics. I also like Bill Murray though his style is quite different.

Bill Murray ?
Yes, Bill Murray ! Something about his acting and jokes and his whole attitude and style has always cracked me up.
There was something familiar about it all ?

I did a little reading about one of his first films, "Where The Buffalo Roam", 1980. Not a big success, but he hung out with Hunter S. Thompson to get into the character and became one of Thompson's few close friends. They tried to out crazy each other, which almost resulted in Murray's death.

Friends on SNL said that Bill came back to the show still stuck in the Thompson character and never really came out of it.

I see that character now in almost every movie he has made since 1980 ?
Bill would have been funny, regardless But I see why he makes me laugh so hard now. Totally irreverent, unpredictable and off the wall, the use of language.

People seem to love Hunter S. Thompson's writing or be repulsed by him ?
First thing I read by him was Hell's Angles in paperback, as a teen.
I recall sitting in the living room and reading "The Great Shark Hunt" years ago and bursting out laughing.
The X-wife looked at me like I was crazy ?
She was repulsed by the book and didn't read much of it.
Just didn't get it ? Guess I should have known we were incompatible at that point ?

Yea, Bills great. "One of Gods prototypes, a mutant never meant for mass production."