and the continued silence on a projected upcoming flu pandemic is deafening.
Isn't it just? And folks are a lot more mobile now than in 1918. A nasty strain of flu could get around the world twice before becoming symptomatic.
Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.
Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Calli - Jul 14, 2005 9:01:05 am PDT #9914 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
-t - Jul 14, 2005 9:01:47 am PDT #9915 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
"Too far to walk" gets much shorter in the summertime in Louisiana. Sometimes the driveway is too far.
Daisy Jane - Jul 14, 2005 9:03:19 am PDT #9916 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I actually live in an area where I can walk to a cafe, several clubs and retail shops, but groceries or convenience store stuff, I drive (though I might be able to walk if it weren't so !@^*#$^ hot here.
§ ita § - Jul 14, 2005 9:03:41 am PDT #9917 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Simi's too far to walk. Even if you're already there. Especially if you're already there.
-t - Jul 14, 2005 9:05:29 am PDT #9918 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Was the Swine Flu the last time we were afraid of widespread influenza?
Steph L. - Jul 14, 2005 9:06:42 am PDT #9919 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Anyplace too far to walk is too far to go.
Some days, my bathroom qualifies as "too far to walk."
Jesse - Jul 14, 2005 9:08:04 am PDT #9920 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Some days, my bathroom qualifies as "too far to walk."
And what do you do then? Do you drive to the bathroom? NO YOU DO NOT.
Steph L. - Jul 14, 2005 9:09:05 am PDT #9921 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
And what do you do then? Do you drive to the bathroom? NO YOU DO NOT.
I'm saying.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 14, 2005 9:10:48 am PDT #9922 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
And what do you do then? Do you drive to the bathroom? NO YOU DO NOT.
Of course not - that's what the hovercraft is for.
Scrappy - Jul 14, 2005 9:11:23 am PDT #9923 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
You can use your hovercraft? Mine is full of eels.