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- Americana Music Academy House Concert featuring NU BLU Bluegrass Band -- 05/26/13 at Americana Music Academy 1 comment
- "Why I Left the Republican Party" -- 03/16/13 at Lawrence Arts Center 43 comments
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Comments
Andini 5 months, 2 weeks ago
No. I can't even remember the last time I was sick. It might have been when I was 20 and had the chicken pox. But that was now 28 years ago. That was not fun having them at that age.
Did_I_say_that 5 months, 2 weeks ago
They were even more fun, and memorable, at 35. Lots of soaks in the Aveeno oatmeal bath.
Andini 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Ouch. What was funny about mine was that my Mom had told me I had already had them as a kid. She then checked her records to find out I hadn't but my two sisters had before I was born.
RoeDapple 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Got my first flu shot in November.
Puked for 2 days.
Did_I_say_that 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Don't you love how the side effects of most medicines include the symptoms of what the medicine should prevent or cure?
appleaday 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Influenza is a respiratory illness. Maybe you are thinking about gastroenteritis, which a lot of people refer to as the flu. When you get an influenza vaccine, you are given an attenuated form of the virus (it is altered so it can't cause disease). Your body makes antibodies to the proteins in the attenuated virus so that when you are actually exposed to a live virus, you are ready to attack it with an antibody response. People who get the live virus, nasal spray are given a weakened form of the live virus -- not enough to cause disease. People can have reactions to vaccines, because mounting an antibody response can set off some disease symptoms but not the disease itself. I've actually had influenza years ago -- severe cough, chest pain, muscle aches, fever. I've had flu shots every year for the past 25 years and only get a sore arm for a few days. It's your choice not to get a flu shot, but if you get the flu, stay home so that elderly people, small infants, and anyone with underlying cardiovascular or pulmonary disease doesn't get really sick and die.
Did_I_say_that 5 months, 2 weeks ago
"...avoid getting sick?"
Don't swap spit with sick people.
JJE007 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Stay away from humans on overpopulated planets.
grammaddy 5 months, 2 weeks ago
What Peter said...
LarryNative 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Wash your hands you filthy pigs. How many times do you see individuals walk out of a stall in a public restroom and right out the door? It's disgusting and selfish. Who raised these kind of people, monkeys?
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 5 months, 2 weeks ago
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ldvander 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The 2 hat method. Place your favorite hat on your ottoman. Kick back in your chair with a bottle of Knob Creek on your side table. Drink Whiskey slowly from your favorite cup or glass while staring at your hat on your ottoman. When you see 2 hats you are cured of any illness and will ward off any future sickness.
Frankie8 5 months, 2 weeks ago
LOL Best advice!
rockchalker52 5 months, 2 weeks ago
I used to avoid KU Football, but my system has built up immunity. Dr. Weis has good medicine & is working on a cure.
beatrice 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Avoid whatever reticent_irreverent, g_rock, the_original_bob, and eddie_haskell have been up to.
somedude20 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Wash your hands 234-342 times after getting home from the Replay or Dirty Bird...oh, and never kiss with your mouth open
RoeDapple 5 months, 2 weeks ago
So . . . I guess any reference to snot rockets would be found offensive . . .
Frankie8 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Roe, I don't know why, but that is the one thing that is guaranteed to make me throw up, I mean, just seeing the word. I have it blanked out now with a piece of paper. However, I don't think that my phobia should influence what others can say on here. I can watch all the Saw movies and never be bothered, so I have no idea.
Starlight 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Would have liked to see frankie8's reaction to mother blowing snot out a nostril and pinching and flinging it off.
rockchalker52 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Did the big red button get stuck? I told 'em to lube that thing.
Eddie_Haskell 5 months, 2 weeks ago
No doubt. Who's the priss on duty today? I damn near got away with murder yesterday. At least be consistant.
rockchalker52 5 months, 2 weeks ago
I looked up that guy that Reticent mentioned, that Semmelweis cat, and learned me a little scientific history before they brownbacked that bit of knowledge right on outa here.
A new size restriction? Well, font you very much.
Kathy Getto 5 months, 2 weeks ago
I try to make sure I get very little sunshine from Florida. Works wonders!
RoeDapple 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Just for the record, they never did give me control of the big red disapearededed button. dammit.
Frankie8 5 months, 2 weeks ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7jW8_2Us5c
misterlee 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Go through life with a positive attitude. That seems to work for me.
sweetweaver 5 months, 2 weeks ago
I use my own pen to fill out forms or sign receipts, and I don't touch anything (especially the magazines) at the doctor's office. I also pull my sleeve over my hand to touch elevator buttons, public door handles, etc. Perhaps I'm a bit of a germaphobe.
CWGOKU 5 months, 2 weeks ago
I keep enough alcohol in my system at all times to kill germs. Or you could live in a big plastic bubble.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 5 months, 2 weeks ago
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trinity 5 months, 2 weeks ago
I'm finding all this comment removal preposterous, as I sit here at home from work with some sort of bug. But far be it from me to whine!! Carry on, lol-all I wanna know is wtf is up with the residents here??? They're harmless!
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 5 months, 2 weeks ago
His name is Ignaz Semmelweis.
Katara 5 months, 2 weeks ago
No, no, no. It's that song they sang in The Sound of Music.
Eddie_Haskell 5 months, 2 weeks ago
His name is Ignaz Semmelweis.
Kathy Getto 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Me,too.........
Andini 5 months, 2 weeks ago
15-20% usually. It depends.
Liberty275 5 months, 2 weeks ago
I was told by an old acting professor that it is impossible to be sick on stage. According to him and from my very limited acting experience, as soon as you walk on stage anything that ails you stops. Maybe because you are becoming someone else that is healthy. Or something.
I think it just the adrenaline shooting through you because you have 100,000 watts of lighting on you and people are waiting for you to do something interesting.
Also, wash your hands.
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