Also, I apparently need to send ND an email about prepping for the next show at the colony.
I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.
Giles ,'Beneath You'
Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Sean K - Mar 18, 2008 12:46:15 pm PDT #477 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Polter-Cow - Mar 18, 2008 12:49:30 pm PDT #478 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Arthur C. Clark finally kicked it.
Shit. Who's going to be #3? Maybe they'll all go in one day.
Jessica - Mar 18, 2008 12:50:16 pm PDT #479 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I'd say corduroy season lasts until right before "dude, aren't you too hot in that?" season begins
Amych is me. Not that I own a pair of corduroys, but if I did, I'd be wearing them or not based on the temperature, not the calendar.
tommyrot - Mar 18, 2008 12:52:05 pm PDT #480 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
On the iPhone, so I can't link, but Arthur C. Clark finally kicked it.
Awww.... sad now.
Maybe they can put his ashes in geosynchronous orbit....
Jessica - Mar 18, 2008 12:54:36 pm PDT #481 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Burrell - Mar 18, 2008 1:06:40 pm PDT #482 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
WRT the vaccination discussion: The kids have had all of them, and I don't believe the possible autism claims because there are far more plausible explanations for the increase in diagnoses. But I do have one issue with the vaccinations. Given that they do cause pain to my poor wee babies, there are too many of them. By 2 years my kids must have had 20 shots, and not all of them were for life threatening illnesses.
Measles, polio, hep B, etc, yeah of course, give my kid the dang shot. But chicken pox? That shot HURTS. And chicken pox is annoying, but it ain't gonna kill the kid. AND it turns out the vaccination doesn't actually provide immunity to it, it just lessens the severity of the illness. And there are other vaccinations that I wondered about. It wasn't worth pulling my kids out of daycare, but I did question the value of some of those shots.
Connie Neil - Mar 18, 2008 1:12:19 pm PDT #483 of 10001
brillig
I suppose Sri Lanka's in mourning.
Ginger - Mar 18, 2008 1:12:28 pm PDT #484 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Yes, but if enough children are vaccinated against chicken pox, there's the possibility that it will disappear. When chicken pox recurs as shingles, it's not pretty.
meara - Mar 18, 2008 1:14:11 pm PDT #485 of 10001
...I kinda wonder about Hep B. I mean...it's a blood borne and sexually transmitted illness. You can't wait until you're older for that vaccine? (Sure, if you're at risk for some reason, but...)
Chicken pox does kill kids every year, though it's WAY more dangerous if you get it as an adult. But I can still see the argument, it does seem like a bit of a silly thing to vaccinate against sometimes. ("About one of every 100 children infected with chickenpox will develop a severe lung infection (pneumonia), an infection of the brain (encephalitis), or a problem with the liver. Dangerous skin infections also can occur. Before the introduction of the vaccine, about 100,000 people were hospitalized and 100 people in the United States died each year of chickenpox, most of them previously healthy children. Adolescents and adults who develop chickenpox are also at high risk of developing serious complications.")
Trudy Booth - Mar 18, 2008 1:27:10 pm PDT #486 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Pants have seasons?! Freaky.
And they don't even have crinnolines!
("About one of every 100 children infected with chickenpox will develop a severe lung infection (pneumonia), an infection of the brain (encephalitis), or a problem with the liver. Dangerous skin infections also can occur. Before the introduction of the vaccine, about 100,000 people were hospitalized and 100 people in the United States died each year of chickenpox, most of them previously healthy children. Adolescents and adults who develop chickenpox are also at high risk of developing serious complications.")
OK, I know my analysis isn't exactly scientific here but I'm going to say "the above seems off to me -- 1 in 100 with serious complications? I don't know a single person who ever had anything worse "THEY WERE IN MY THROAT!!!!" of the roughly seven bajillion people I know who had chicken pox."