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Hello, Nurse!
At Arizona's Heart Attack Grill, servers dressed as nurses serve a "quadruple bypass burger" clearly cooked up to provoke Bloombergian scolds. Any customer who can finish the burger--four half-pound beef patties, cheese, bacon, and all--gets a wheelchair ride to her car at no extra cost. But it's not the food porn that has people upset:
The waitresses wear skimpy, cleavage-baring outfits, high heels and thigh-high stockings -- a male fantasy that some nursing organizations say is an insult to the profession.
"Nurses are the most sexually fantasized-about profession," said Sandy Summers, executive director of the Center for Nursing Advocacy, based in Baltimore. "We're asking people, if they're going to have these fantasies, please don't make it so public. Move these sexual fantasies to other professions."
The most serious complaint [Owner Jon] Basso has faced was made to the Arizona attorney general's office by the state Board of Nursing. In September, the attorney general's office wrote Basso a letter informing him that he is illegally using the word "nurse" at his restaurant and on his Web site. Citing Arizona Statute A.R.S. 32-1636, the attorney general said only someone who has a valid nursing license can use the title "nurse."
Whole thing here.
|12.11.06 @ 5:29PM|#
I have nothing to add about nanny-state food regulations or the
ethics of having waitresses dress as exaggerated stereotypes.
I just wanted to give you props for the Animaniacs
reference.
|12.11.06 @ 5:30PM|#
"Nurses are the most sexually fantasized-about profession,"
said Sandy Summers, executive director of the Center for Nursing
Advocacy, based in Baltimore. "We're asking people, if they're
going to have these fantasies, please don't make it so public. Move
these sexual fantasies to other professions."
I'm going back to fantasizing about nuns just to placate Sandy
Summers. Who says I'm not politically correct now?
|12.11.06 @ 5:32PM|#
"Nurses are the most sexually fantasized-about profession. . . .
We're asking people, if they're going to have these fantasies,
please don't make it so public. Move these sexual fantasies to
other professions."
Anyone want to take her up on the invitation? What are some other
professions to fantasize about?
My own suggestion would be librarians.
R C Dean|12.11.06 @ 5:35PM|#
Nurses are the most sexually fantasized-about
profession.
Nonsense. Lawyers are. All those . . . prolix briefs. That . . .
oral ability.
Plus, nothing's hotter than a girl in a suit with a short skirt,
wearing glasses. Mrow!
|12.11.06 @ 5:36PM|#
gets a wheelchair ride to her car at no extra
cost.
Considering how the waitresses are dressed, I think it's safe to
say that only men would order this burger.
Or are they promising a ride to the waitress' car? Now
that's what I call marketing.
|12.11.06 @ 5:37PM|#
This place looks awesome!! Their menu consists of a whopping 7 items. Single, double, and triple bypass burgers; fries; soda, and beer; and cigarettes. To top it off, Geraldo is going to be there on wednesday, and from the looks of it he will be at large.
tomWright|12.11.06 @ 5:43PM|#
I dunno, how 'bout we fantasize about bloggers? They seem to be
an under-utilized population for that sort of thin.
A Kos, Glenn Reynolds, Huffington menage, now thats HOT.
|12.11.06 @ 5:43PM|#
My own suggestion would be librarians.
The disturbing image of Laura Bush popped up in my head when I read
that. Yikes!
Jonathan C. Hohensee|12.11.06 @ 5:46PM|#
I'm trying to find the connection between the "most sexually fantasized-about profession" and that being a bad thing. Or how men are unable to figure out the diffrences between nurse Vavavoom and nurse Diana Lopez of Children's Medical Center.
|12.11.06 @ 5:49PM|#
Citing Arizona Statute A.R.S. 32-1636, the attorney general
said only someone who has a valid nursing license can use the title
"nurse."
Can a woman get in trouble for breast feeding her baby if she
doesn't have a nursing license? Will the cops pounce when she says
"I'm going to nurse my baby?"
|12.11.06 @ 5:50PM|#
Does anyone else get the feeling that there are a lot of people in this country who need to lighten the hell up?
|12.11.06 @ 5:55PM|#
Does anyone else get the feeling that there are a lot of
people in this country who need to lighten the hell up?
The posters here agree with you, it appears.
|12.11.06 @ 5:56PM|#
"Nurses are the most sexually fantasized-about profession,"
said Sandy Summers, executive director of the Center for Nursing
Advocacy
We wish to register our indignity at this gross
mischaracterization. We all know flight attendants are the
most sexually fantasized about profession. We have worked ahem...
long and hard to achieve this status for our members and we will
not have it usurped by those glorified bed pan changers.
Maurice Girodias|12.11.06 @ 6:11PM|#
You know,
market research has shown that librarians are more of a niche
sexual fetish.
Of course, the "falling for the nurse" thing has crossed over into
mainstream literature (cc, Hemingway, Morrison et al).
However, all such individuals--nurses, nuns, librarians, what have
you, are themselves, given relative age and degree of personal
repression, merely a subcategory of that holy grail of fetish
objects.
Gentlemen, I give you the M.I.L.F.
|12.11.06 @ 6:12PM|#
Flight Attendants Union,
That may have once been true. But, ever since you guys ditched
weight restrictions your stock has dropped. Currently you are
somewhere between lunch ladies and IHOP waitresses on the most
fantasized about profession list. Unless of course the fantasy in
question is retro or the flight attendants in your fantasy happen
to work for an Asian carrier.
|12.11.06 @ 6:12PM|#
"Nurses are the most sexually fantasized-about profession,"
said Sandy Summers, executive director of the Center for Nursing
Advocacy
*sigh*
Once again we engineers get passed over.
|12.11.06 @ 6:23PM|#
I've got a stripper friend in Baltimore who was none too pleased to hear this. That Sandy bitch better not stroll down the Block anytime soon.
|12.11.06 @ 6:25PM|#
What about teachers?
I had speech therapy when I was about 10, and my therapist was
hot.
There must have been some serious imprinting going on during those
sessions, because when I met my wife she was finishing up a degree
in...speech therapy.
Jonathan C. Hohensee|12.11.06 @ 6:25PM|#
For a mother of all ironies, check out the first link.
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=%22Sandy+Summers%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
|12.11.06 @ 6:27PM|#
db
At the U of Alberta, it was well known that, among females, the
highest percentage of virgins was in the faculty of nursing.
Seems they all dated engineers.
Jonathan C. Hohensee|12.11.06 @ 6:28PM|#
This is from a nursings magazine, where she decries nursing's
protrayal in the media;
Q: Where do you see the most harm being done?
A: Television's ER has got to be nursing's public enemy No.1. They
reach so many people; 20 million to 30 million in the U.S., tens of
millions more around the world.-Sandy Summers
Jesus Christ.
|12.11.06 @ 6:28PM|#
Does being a Catholic schoolgirl count as a profession? Or,
better yet, Japanese schoolgirls dressed as Catholic schoolgirls?
If so, they're number one (番号のー) in my book.
I also have a thing for tight bodied little military girls in
form-fitting BDUs; mmmmm... Of course, I am a little biased.
Jonathan C. Hohensee|12.11.06 @ 6:38PM|#
Wow, this is becoming one of those things where I develop an
unhealthy amount of self-righteous obsessive out rage about
it;
http://www.heartattackgrill.com/
(from the small print)
*The use of the word "Nurse" above is only intended as a
parody. None of the women pictured on our website actually have any
medical training, nor do they attempt to provide any real medical
services. It should be made clear that the Heart Attack Grill and
its employees do NOT offer any therapeutic treatments (aside from
laughter) whatsoever.
Larry A|12.11.06 @ 6:38PM|#
Does anyone else get the feeling that there are a lot of
people in this country who need to lighten the hell up?
I think they've got way too much time on their hands. Maybe if they
had a real job?
"Nurses are the most sexually fantasized-about profession,"
said Sandy Summers, executive director of the Center for Nursing
Advocacy, based in Baltimore.
Don't know if there's a connection, but I've noticed that among my
female concealed handgun students nurses make up the second largest
professional group, behind real estate agents.
|12.11.06 @ 6:42PM|#
I get the impression Sandy Summers has never seen a male
stripper. Cops and firemen are far more likely to be the object of
female fantasies than nurses. You don't hear them bitching about
being the victim of adolescent sexual fixations, do you?
As for me, I fantasize about having phone sex with the mortgage
trolls that call me five times a day.
|12.11.06 @ 6:43PM|#
I almost hired a member of the species Ginglymostoma cirratum to take care of my ailing relatives. Thank goodness the Arizona attorney general is on the job to protect me from such blatant misrepresentation!
|12.11.06 @ 6:43PM|#
Uh, maids, anyone? Particularly the French variety.
Any nurse fantasies would tend to be destroyed by actual hospital
visits.
|12.11.06 @ 6:51PM|#
Just checked out the website, imagine how well they would do with attractive wait staff?
|12.11.06 @ 6:51PM|#
My fantasies focus on those HOT!!! Reason writers Kerry Howley and Katherine Mangu-Ward.
|12.11.06 @ 7:01PM|#
Speaking of causing quadruple bypasses. This thread is a sausagefest wrapped in bacon.
|12.11.06 @ 7:02PM|#
"Nurses are the most sexually fantasized-about profession,"
said Sandy Summers, executive director of the Center for Nursing
Advocacy
*sigh*
Once again we engineers get passed over.
*sigh*
Yes, once again.
the attorney general said only someone who has a valid nursing
license can use the title "nurse."
On the other hand, you don't hear us complaining about the people
who drive trains.
|12.11.06 @ 7:24PM|#
Don't know if there's a connection, but I've noticed that
among my female concealed handgun students nurses make up the
second largest professional group, behind real estate
agents.
It is very easy to understand why RE agents would be interested in
carrying concealed weapons - lots of nights in strange
neighborhoods in vacant homes with strange people. Nurses, on the
other hand, do you think the defenseless victims they see in the ER
make them want the protection? Doctors & patients who won't
take no for an answer?
|12.11.06 @ 7:27PM|#
What I want to know is: Where's the study that shows that nurses are the most fantasized-about? Can I get a copy of that? In a brown paper bag? To go?
|12.11.06 @ 7:36PM|#
Highnumber:
Nurses often work swing and graveyard shifts in urban areas.
And this sandy chic, what an ego on her! Nurses more fantasized
about than strippers or "dancers"? Not likely. Nurses actually
repulse me. Needeles and rubber tubing? Not sexy.
Jennifer|12.11.06 @ 7:38PM|#
Highnumber, I read that ER doctors and nurses ranked among the most dangerous jobs in America, in terms of how likely they were to be injured on the job. There are some scary people who come into ERs.
|12.11.06 @ 8:02PM|#
As a Tempe resident, I am sorely tempted to visit this restaurant. Too bad there's nothing on the menu I could eat without dying shortly thereafter.
|12.11.06 @ 8:02PM|#
"The attorney general's office sent a follow-up letter on Nov.
22 saying the Web site cleared up the issue [by printing a
disclaimer about the term 'nurse'], and it was resolved."
That's good to know -- I initially assumed they were being hassled
*despite* the disclaimer.
George Tenet Fangirl,
I suppose there would be no problem about fantasizing about male
nurses, but fantasizing about George Tenet indicates that you have
some issues.
|12.11.06 @ 8:50PM|#
actually the weirdest fetish among anyone i know is a friend who
is going to nursing school
she's turned on by injured people
works out for everyone as far i'm concerned
The Wine Commonsewer|12.11.06 @ 9:51PM|#
No wait, maybe Summers is right. Lessee, when I'm old and
decrepit..........
hot little twenty something nurse with a wine bar....oh yeah, that
works.
Maurice Girodias|12.11.06 @ 9:54PM|#
"Maurice Girodias," eh?
GET BACK TO WORK, CAVANAUGH!!!
I appreciate the misappelation. But I work in
DBs, ethics preventing me from ever taking the filthy lucre of
the Tribune Company.
/The
Librarian book is the only pink
one I bring to mainstream book shows.
//Helps to sell The Asian
stuff.
///And makes a lovely Christmas gift!
The Wine Commonsewer|12.11.06 @ 9:59PM|#
Geraldo's gonnna be there on Wednesday!
Hey, they aren't real
nurses. Wait. Not fair. I've been had. Or just wish I'd
been.
|12.11.06 @ 11:31PM|#
All this discussion of "most sexually fantasized-about
professions" and no one has mentioned French maids yet? Gotta be
#1.
Cheerleaders must be #2.
Nurses, maybe #3.
Airline stewardesses once upon a time, back when they were still
called "airline stewardesses."
Then teachers and librarians.
Then "businesswomen," if wearing pinstriped miniskirted suits, and
"secretaries" back when they were just "secretaries."
(Yes, this is getting progressively more and more sexist.)
And I guess "student" (Catholic schoolgirl) can be considered a
profession.
Also, geishas.
And then superheroines.
And then female reporters/journalists.
I'm pretty sure linguists are in there somewhere too.
|12.11.06 @ 11:45PM|#
I'm a little pissed that I just heard about this restaurant
today. It's right down the road. I will have to check it out and
see how good it is.
Highnumber,
The company I work for builds hospitals, I have seen whole lobbies
with bulletproof glass and drywall. Having been to some of these
jobs, I wouldn't go there after dark without a gun and few extra
clips.
Nick
The Wine Commonsewer|12.11.06 @ 11:48PM|#
Stevo, those stews are the same ones that went to work for the
majors when they were sweet young things back in the sixties and
seventies. They still work there.
I dated a girl once who had a little girl that wanted to grow up to
be a Spanish maid. She ended up as a Deadhead instead.
The Wine Commonsewer|12.11.06 @ 11:50PM|#
I'm pretty sure linguists are in there somewhere
too.
Softball.
superheroines
Not Wonderwoman. Maybe Elastagirl.
|12.12.06 @ 12:27AM|#
"she's turned on by injured people"
Hmm,
The perfect Xmas present for your friend...
J.G. Ballard's "Crash"
Or if she prefers DVD's there was a David Cronenberg film
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/) made of the novel with James
Spader (not the more recent oscar fave). Creepy erotic.
|12.12.06 @ 2:46AM|#
I'm going to sue any amusement park that uses the word "vampire" in their haunted houses. Because they're not really vampires! Bwooohahahaha!
|12.12.06 @ 9:28AM|#
Honestly, I've always associated nurses with bedpans and
vomit.
Librarians all the way!
|12.12.06 @ 9:47AM|#
I got bored with provoking the squares at about 21, and I consider myself a late bloomer.
Sandy|12.12.06 @ 10:26AM|#
. Citing Arizona Statute A.R.S. 32-1636, the attorney
general said only someone who has a valid nursing license can use
the title "nurse."
Er...so what do they do about actors on stage and screen? Do they
have open warrants out for the chick who plays Carla on
"Scrubs"?
|12.12.06 @ 10:33AM|#
Any nurse fantasies would tend to be destroyed by actual
hospital visits.
So true.
Real nurses = fat women in ugly pajamas.
Mike Laursen|12.13.06 @ 7:00PM|#
Google hits for:
naked teachers = 1,760,000
naked reporters = 1,060,000
naked journalists = 997,000
naked secretaries = 911,000
naked geishas = 820,000
naked "Dick Cheney" = 629,000
naked librarians = 438,000
naked linguists = 352,000
naked superheroines = 205,000
naked cheerleaders = 121,000
naked nurses = 98,600
naked stewardesses = 56,900
naked "French maids" = 56,800
naked "Catholic schoolgirls" = 42,200
naked businesswomen = 28,100
Draw your own conclusions.
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