You know, this is unreal, in the technical sense of the term, but even as scientists say that it’s important to maintain the moniker “Swine Flu” as indicative of the species of origination, the linguistic-grievance axis are still all over why it simply must not be so. I wish it were possible to parody these imbeciles.
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UPDATE: Swine Flu Tells Sebelius, “I don’t give a flying f*ck what you call me, lady.”
Comment by B Moe on 4/30 @ 6:35 pm #
I think they should call it Katrina.
Comment by Joe Ego on 4/30 @ 6:40 pm #
http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/04/30/breaking-news-swine-flu-strikes-azeroth/
Comment by Jeffersonian on 4/30 @ 7:01 pm #
I hope they keep the name just to freak out the Muslims who catch it.
Comment by Jeff G. on 4/30 @ 7:07 pm #
Bet he can remember when our universities were pumping out more than 13th graders and intellectual incurious and dogmatic professors.
Comment by router on 4/30 @ 7:14 pm #
it is torture to some to call this swine flu you louts
/sarcoff
we’ve got geneva or hate crime protections you know
Comment by N. O'Brain on 4/30 @ 7:14 pm #
Pigs can’t fly, some some swine flu.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 4/30 @ 7:21 pm #
“Dr. Edwin D. Kilbourne, the father of the 1976 swine flu vaccine and a retired professor at New York Medical College in Valhalla, called the idea of changing the name an “absurd position.—
But, Jeff, changing the name changes the reality.
Didn’t you know that?
Comment by Alec Leamas on 4/30 @ 7:29 pm #
“ManBirdPig Flu Overwhelmingly Pig”
Somewhere, there’s a Texan marinating the Swine Flu and dreaming about the smoke ring he’ll get on it.
Comment by router on 4/30 @ 7:38 pm #
swine flu is like obamamania
Comment by Jeffersonian on 4/30 @ 7:50 pm #
Somewhere, there’s a Texan marinating the Swine Flu and dreaming about the smoke ring he’ll get on it.
No way…Texans are beef cookers. Now, if you’d have said Kansas City…
Comment by Reverend Mike on 4/30 @ 10:25 pm #
Considering it’s part swine flu from Mexico and part avian flu from China, I herewith re-name it:
Beans & Rice Flu
Comment by Seth on 5/1 @ 12:41 am #
What’s important here, is that we don’t unfairly discriminate against the rights of our porcine bretheren and paint them as somehow “unclean” or a potential “vector of disease”. Too long have they borne the brunt of our scorn, mockery, sterotypes, and barbeque sauce. Our betters are simply showing us the proper way to be sensitive, feely-touchy, self actualized and fully realized bipedal persons.
Kumbyah, bitches.
Comment by Letitbeme on 5/1 @ 3:03 pm #
In related news, ever since I got Lou Gehrig’s disease, my career batting average has improved from .206 to .373.
Comment by paisana in Atlanta on 5/1 @ 5:55 pm #
I think they are calling it the heinie flu now.
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