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Friday, September 16, 2005

Pondering

I just heard that 3 mice infected with "The Plague" went missing from a lab in New Jersey and it got me thinking. The names of diseases used to be much scarier than they are today. For example:

  • The Plague - Is there any other disease that warrants the "The"
  • Black Death - Avoid him like "The Plague"
Now, we have:
  • AIDS - as scary as this disease is, it actually sounds helpful
  • Asian Bird Flu - Would't Crocodile Flu sound scarier?
  • Flesh Eating Bacteria - Although not a disease name, this is the only exception I can think of.
Just something to ponder.

2 comments:

Jenntos said...

Bill Maher last week was interviewing a climatologist about global warming and said, "the republicans have a great way to use words and make things scary, like The War on Terror. Maybe we should change "global warming" to something less...warm. Like Climatea (think: chlamydia)...*snort*

talljay said...

cf - Heh. I like that.