11 responses for this post

1. ali on Friday, May 02, 2008 at 11:56 am

   when one says “stoned”, is it really necessary to specify “on drugs”? just curious…

2. Jen in OH! on Friday, May 02, 2008 at 2:50 pm

   Eighteen-year-old Matthew Rosenberg had used his cellular telephone Monday night to call his mom and tell her he tripped

   Now see, if he had just stopped the sentence right there, he could have argued that at least he didn’t lie. Kids today don’t think these things through.

3. Greater Czarina on Friday, May 02, 2008 at 3:56 pm

   Did those names make you do a double-take, FG? Mark Rosenberg? His son, Matthew? I almost fell off the sofa until I realized it all took place in California!

4. Patrick on Friday, May 02, 2008 at 5:00 pm

   “Gorked”? Am I too old to know that one, at 23?

5. freakgirl on Friday, May 02, 2008 at 6:10 pm

   GC, I never even put that together in my mind! HA!

   Patrick, I’d never heard that either. And I’m not 23.

6. Liz on Saturday, May 03, 2008 at 10:22 am

   Jill tells me her brother did almost the same thing when he was a kid. Except he didn’t call home on his cell phone as no one had invented them yet. And he really had a broken ankle. He was so stoned he just walked home on his broken ankle and got taken to the ER where they decided he would not be requiring any further sedation before they reset and casted him.

7. freakgirl on Saturday, May 03, 2008 at 10:28 am

   Holy crap!

8. Liz on Saturday, May 03, 2008 at 10:48 am

   He was also not allowed to use the car for several days.

9. Ky Eliza on Sunday, May 04, 2008 at 1:21 am

   Also, I’ve never heard anyone describe taking hallucinogens as being “stoned.” Wha? Tripping now = stoned? Gorked?

10. walter on Sunday, May 04, 2008 at 10:50 am

    http://www.urbandictionary.com.....erm=gorked

    I never heard of it either, but if the urban dictionary groks “gork”, I grok it too.

11. shllysmth9 on Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 12:13 am

    Gorked is not used in the sense of recreational drug use etc. It is a slang medical term used for patients either in a coma, or basically totally out of it, which is how many patients are who are in the ICU. This can include patients who have had severe trauma, who are heavily sedated, and who are intubated (not breathing on their own and have a tube down their throat into their lungs to breath for them). These are people that are either completely out of it or close, whether or not medications are involved. This is not a new term. My 62 year old mother who is soon to be a retired nurse has used the term and I, as a medical worker have used it too.

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