Posts Tagged ‘Germs’

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The Sick Olympics

by Seraphine Khorana on February 15th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
The Sick Olympics

Yay, after a week, bronchitis is no longer contagious. In theory. But if I were you. I’d stay as far away from me as possible.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Quotation from Thornton Wilder

So many journeys may the sun and moon
Make us again count o’er ere love be done!
But, woe is me, you are so sick of late,
So far from cheer and from your former state,
That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust,
Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must:
For women’s fear and love holds quantity;
In neither aught, or in extremity.
Quotation from Wm. Shakespeare, Hamlet

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The Five Second Rule

by Seraphine Khorana on July 22nd, 2009
Posted In: Comics
The Five Second Rule

If toast always lands butter-side down and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?
Quotation from comedian Steven Wright

Five Second Helpings (Snopes.com)
Tutorial: How to Make Skittles Vodka (MixThatDrink.com)

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Bathroom Paranoia

by Seraphine Khorana on May 11th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Bathroom Paranoia

Washing your hands is crucial to preventing disease. But did you know poop germs mobilize into a mist when you flush the toilet and you can inhale them? It’s true! Leave the room immediately after flushing, because that “gurgle” at the end of the flush is the most dangerous moment for mist inhalation.

What Can You Catch in Restrooms? (Web MD)

The authentic! I said
rising from the toilet seat.
The radiator in rhythmic knockings
spoke of the rising steam.
The authentic, I said
breaking the handle of my hairbrush as I
brushed my hair in
rhythmic strokes: That’s it,
that’s joy, it’s always
a recognition, the known
appearing fully itself, and
more itself than one knew.
Poem by Denise Levertov, Matins

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Bad Manners #1

by Seraphine Khorana on May 30th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Bad Manners #1

I hate when people don’t cover their face. They cough,
wheeze, sneeze without the slightest embarrassment.

Serotica: Sneezing as an Erotic Fetish (sneeze.dreamhosters.com)
Self-Care Chart for a Cough (familydoctor.org)

“In earlier times, it was believed that when you sneezed
you opened yourself, or your soul, to the outside world.
It was an unnatural and certainly a bizarre happening, and
clearly portended evil… It was thought that your soul might
escape, or demons and evil spirits might get in, or even
that they may have caused the sneeze in the first place.”
Quotation by Tom Wilson, MD, Mad Scientist Network

“People with the same sickness sympathize with one another.”
-Chinese proverb.

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This is you one day. Get used to it.

by Seraphine Khorana on May 27th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
This is you one day. Get used to it.

Last year, somebody found a used toothbrush in
Paris Hilton’s trash and sold it on eBay for $305.00.
Remember, when you share someone’s toothbrush,
you’re brushing with everyone they’ve slept with too!

Bidding War for Paris Hilton’s Garbage (Washington Post)

“A bunch of germs were whooping it up in the Bronchial Saloon.
The bacillus handling the larynx was jazzing a gag-time tune,
While back of the tongue in a solo game sat Dangerous Ah Kerchoo.
And watching his luck was his light of love, the malady known as Flu.”
Quoted from Cal Beacock, The Pundit (Reader’s Digest)

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