One of them was my uncle Joseph, an 81-year-old throat cancer survivor who spoke with an artificial voice box.
But he is also a poor representative of all the other Johnny Cashes — the one who drove the Tennessee Two through the boom-chicka-boom Sun singles, the historian of American song, the sometimes goofy "Old Golden Throat," the prison activist, the Man in Black, the Highwayman.
But do it pat, John Whittingdale, quickly and cleanly, with one swift slash of the butcher's knife across that old, wise throat, not slowly and painfully, hung up on a hook and whipped, like all those women, in those films you like.
For bacteriology testing, one nasal (for <1 year olds) or throat (for >1 year olds) sample by Dacron swab was collected and immediately placed into bacterial transport media (STGG - Skimmed milk, tryptone, glycerol and glucose) on ice for transportation.
I have seen an 18-year-old with throat cancer who had never smoked a single cigarette in his life.
But health problems (doctors removed a possibly cancerous lump from the 68-year-old's throat last month) have accelerated the jockeying among potential successors.
Call of Duty: Ghosts, developed for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U and PC, is rated M (Mature, for players 17 and older) for throat knifings, profanity and a dog that feasts on human necks.
The eight-year-old's throat was cut from end to end, his blood splattered on his toys.
Indigenous music has cleaned up in Canada this year with Tanya Tagaq taking a Juno, Buffy Sainte-Marie taking a Polaris, and two 11-year-old Inuit throat singers dominated Trudeau's cabinet swearing-in ceremony in November.
In one plate, torn from Claude Roger Marx's monograph on Rembrandt, the old man's throat has apparently been cut.
