Silly as in dumb? Or silly as in "good times?" Cause my basic instructor had a ton of "good times" gems. Imagine all of these spoken in an Emo Phillips-esque inflection:
"If [the scene becomes unnnsafe], you don't have to outrun the patient, you jusssst have to outrun your partner."
"If the patient throws up during resuscitation, that's ooookay. Just tiiip the backboard towards your partner and suction..."
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"DON'T pull the knife out of a stab wound. IT'S A PLUG IN A HOLE. And if, for soooome reason, the plug comes OUT of the hole, whatEVVVER you do, DON'T put the knife back INto the hole."
He was fond of saying "hypoperfusion" a lot. a lot a lot. I mean, a LOT. And he said it with a funny sort of emphasis that really drilled the "CO2 goes out, O2 goes in, blood goes round and round" concept into our heads. As in:
"Aaaand NONE of these things will ever kill your patient. An head injury won't kill your patient. A heart attack will never kill your patient. The only thing that evvver killlls the patient is...HYPOPERFUUUUUUSION!"
He had some interesting ways of pronouncing stuff. Like Pancreas was the "PIIIINEcreas!"
But my absolute favorite, by far was week one, chapter two, right after "Making A Difference" Hx of EMS. It was Ethics and providing us with a mnemonic to remember the difference between "Assault" and "Battery." It was:
"THIS is what you CALLLLED him --->[***]ault
and THIS is what you HIT him with!" --->[BAT]tery
