RM
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posted on November 21, 2000 02:25:53 PM new
Shadowcat asked,
""Threat of ringworm"...is that anything like "the heartbreak of psoriasis"? "
Excellent question Shadowcat!
Actually, "The Heartbreak of Psoriasis" is an old Hank Williams tune.
The "Threat of Ringworm" is a made for TV movie starring Donnie and Marie Osmond.
They're nothing alike.
Ray
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UpInTheHills
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posted on November 21, 2000 02:57:49 PM new
Well, I read this thread when it first started. I couldn't think of anyone to have in the Presidential bake-off, so hadn't been back in a while. Now all kinds of things have happened.
Maui, glad you are back. I enjoy your ponderments, even if others don't.
I think of the choices represented here, I'd have to go for Shwartzkopf and McCain. don't care who's pres and who's vp. If Bush loses. I think in four years a McCain Swartzkopf ticket would be pretty hard to beat.
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njrazd
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posted on November 21, 2000 03:25:19 PM new
There was a pretty good amount of support for McCain before the primary, but he did a radio interview out here and literally sounded like there was something seriously wrong with him. He also had the bad habit of using too much negative speech against his opponent rather than positive speech for himself.
I think McCain is honorable and would serve well with a strong VP choice like Powell or Schwartzkopf to keep him focused. I also like Elizabeth Dole.
I think the first African-American President will be J.C. Watts from Oklahoma. If you've never heard him speak anywhere, you should search him out. He's a very dynamic individual. His only problem is he is Republican and therefore a "Tom" in the eyes of the NAACP and the Jesse Jackson camp. I don't think he could carry the black vote, which is a shame. He's an excellent role model.
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That's Flunky Gerbiltush to you!
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rawbunzel
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posted on November 21, 2000 03:26:00 PM new
Ringworm glows under a black light like vaseline glass does.[not as pretty] It looks just like it does on a person, you know the round circles. Oh yeah. It was ring worm! But it is true you would have to touch it with your neekid body to contract it from the seats. So really you would only have to worry if you were wearing shorts or scootched down in the seat where your neck was on it. Even then it would be hard to contract. They take those black light into hotel rooms too and I won't even tell you what they find there. You would always bring your own bedding that much I will say.
Gross!
I am not paranoid about critters. These things do not bother me in the least which is why I can talk about them.
I do hope no one is freaked out over this stuff.
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FrannyS
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posted on November 21, 2000 03:31:45 PM new
I am getting itchy.
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oddish4
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posted on November 21, 2000 04:35:11 PM new
UHHHH rawbunzels back telling me more about these icky things.
How'd the mouse cleaning go? No wait on second though don't tell me about it 
I really don't even want to know what kind of theater you would go to nakkid that almost sounds more scary than the ringworms hehehe
Oddish~ The Odd One
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Shadowcat
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posted on November 21, 2000 05:13:32 PM new
RM: That must have been before Donny and Marie did the straight to video "Sex, Lies, and Suction-A Dentist's Secret Life".
Well of course hotel/motel bedding is icky! Humans sleep there!
Oooh-I could go for a McCain-Schwarzkopf ticket!
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rawbunzel
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posted on November 21, 2000 05:22:05 PM new
LOL Shadowcat! Don't EVEN get me started on the dentists office!! The things I could tell you about that would make you never want to go there again [like you do anyway!]
Don't you worry Oddish. The mouse is nice and clean and unharmed. I did have to gut it but I got it all put back together just fine.
[ edited by rawbunzel on Nov 21, 2000 05:23 PM ]
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oddish4
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posted on November 21, 2000 05:30:36 PM new
Please oh please don't get her started on the dentists office. I'm scared enough as it is!
Rawbunzel
LOL@ the mouse.
Oddish~ The Odd One
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Shadowcat
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posted on November 21, 2000 05:41:33 PM new
Oddish: Hey-I useta work in hospitals and I've seen and dealt with stuff that maggots wouldn't touch. Dental horrors can't be any different than hospital horrors.
Thinking of horrors, when I took Microbiology in college, one of our labs was to set culture dishes around the building for a few days and then see what kind of "bugs" floated onto the dishes. It was VERY enlightening and VERY discomforting to know we were breathing the same air that caused our dishes to look like weird gardens. The worst places in the building were the stairwells and the bathrooms(big surprise there, huh).
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rawbunzel
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posted on November 21, 2000 05:48:50 PM new
Shadowcat, I took Microbiology in college as well. Fascinating isn't it? I love to see what will show up in a petri dish!Put it under a microscope and see what wiggles! Ah, How I wish I still had a powerful microscope!
I love looking at those teensy weensy things.
Oddish, I will not tell you about the dentists office. They are bad enough as it is. Of course if you start talking about Clinton, Gore or Bush again I will reconsider!
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oddish4
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posted on November 21, 2000 06:01:59 PM new
Deal. No more talk about you-know-whos or you-know-whats or you-know-crawlythings.
You know, the don't tell don't itch policy.
You don't tell me any little critters abounding in everyday life and I won't itch to tell you about anything else. hehehe
Seriously though I love biology or history or anything I don't already know about which leaves it real wide open to just about anything.
Oddish~ The Odd One
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Shadowcat
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posted on November 21, 2000 06:36:32 PM new
Rawbunzel: I loved the labs, playing with the bugs and figuring out which bug was which. I learned to wear grubbies to the labs because the disinfectant we used to clean up our areas at the end of the labs managed to splash on my clothes and chewed holes in everything I wore. We joked that you could tell a micro student by all the little bleached out sections and holes in their clothes.
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FrannyS
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posted on November 21, 2000 07:17:16 PM new
I like those shows on NOVA, that show the critters who inhabit even your face. Creepy crawly things the LIVE in your skin. Icky.
Sorry Oddish4. Im still scratching.
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Shadowcat
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posted on November 21, 2000 07:51:45 PM new
Yup, humans carry around a lot of flora and fauna...
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UpInTheHills
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posted on November 21, 2000 08:37:22 PM new
And you kill off some of those beneficial buggies by using anti-bacterial soap. The rest just become resistant.
DON'T USE ANTI-BACTERIAL SOAPS!!!
Sorry about the yelling. We're really messing with all of our buggy friends by using that stuff. If we are all using this soap, we'll create all kinds of resistant strains of buggies that we can't kill when we need to.
Stepping down off my soap box now.
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FrannyS
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posted on November 21, 2000 09:04:41 PM new
Yes, those buggy friends eat OTHER buggy NON friends. I dont kill those big old red skeeters that fly around in the house either. People don't realize they EAT the ones that bite us. So, don't kill them next summer. Oh, and don't use bacterial soaps either
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UpInTheHills
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posted on November 21, 2000 09:08:43 PM new
Hummm...well we've now gone from presidential elections to creepy crawlies.
Oh wait...we're still on topic. Proceed.
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FrannyS
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posted on November 21, 2000 09:17:20 PM new
@upinthehills
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