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.”
I think they should call it Katrina.
http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/04/30/breaking-news-swine-flu-strikes-azeroth/
I hope they keep the name just to freak out the Muslims who catch it.
Bet he can remember when our universities were pumping out more than 13th graders and intellectual incurious and dogmatic professors.
it is torture to some to call this swine flu you louts
/sarcoff
we’ve got geneva or hate crime protections you know
Pigs can’t fly, some some swine flu.
“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?
“ManBirdPig Flu Overwhelmingly Pig”
Somewhere, there’s a Texan marinating the Swine Flu and dreaming about the smoke ring he’ll get on it.
swine flu is like obamamania
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…
Considering it’s part swine flu from Mexico and part avian flu from China, I herewith re-name it:
Beans & Rice Flu
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.
In related news, ever since I got Lou Gehrig’s disease, my career batting average has improved from .206 to .373.
I think they are calling it the heinie flu now.
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