A pandemic is more widespread, usually involving multiple countries and/or continents.
Wash: I'm not leaving her side, Mal. Don't ask me again. Mal: I wasn't asking. I was telling.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
Kathy A - Apr 27, 2009 7:17:58 am PDT #16917 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Cashmere - Apr 27, 2009 7:18:25 am PDT #16918 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Mix with chocolate.
Now I want a Reese's Cup!
Trudy Booth - Apr 27, 2009 7:18:41 am PDT #16919 of 30000
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
What is the difference between a pandemic and an epidemic?
I think a pandemic is bigger. Or maybe multi-national?
Gudanov - Apr 27, 2009 7:19:47 am PDT #16920 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Mix with chocolate.
Them is kerfuffle'n words.
Jessica - Apr 27, 2009 7:20:19 am PDT #16921 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Pan = widespread/global; epi = confined to a single location (which could be a school, or a town, or a small country)
the 1918 flu may have had nothing to do with swine
I still think the safest course of action is for everybody to eat as much bacon as possible. Get those pigs before they get us!
Sophia Brooks - Apr 27, 2009 7:21:42 am PDT #16922 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Pan = widespread/global; epi = confined to a single location (which could be a school, or a town, or a small country)
Thank you. My mom asked me last night and I realized that I didn't know. I feel like I didn't hear the term "pandemic" until ten or fifteen years ago, but I also feel like that about the terms "hoodie" and "wifebeater"
Cashmere - Apr 27, 2009 7:21:50 am PDT #16923 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
At least the 1918 flu gave us the sparkly vampire.
I need to send Shir some homemade buckeyes.
Barb - Apr 27, 2009 7:27:11 am PDT #16924 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Now I want a Reese's Cup!
Mmm... Me too!
Actually, I just want food. Must go in search of lunch.
Gudanov - Apr 27, 2009 7:27:27 am PDT #16925 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
At least the 1918 flu gave us the sparkly vampire.
Thanks to information learned early from b.org, I now know this is a reference to Twiverse vampires since they apparently sparkle. I still assume this is because Twiverse vampires like to wear lots of that glitter makeup which is popular with the primary demographic that reads about them.
Shir - Apr 27, 2009 7:29:32 am PDT #16926 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I need to send Shir some homemade buckeyes
Shir can really has some homemade buckeyes, and have it well. Shir doesn't know yet what homemade buckeyes are, but she has funny assumptions about it.
Shir also has unending statistics homeworks.