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2009-05-01 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Steve White 2009-05-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 CHINESE MIL FORUM > MEXICO BLAMES CHINA, PAKISTAN, AND BANGLADESH FOR SWINE FLU
[tourists, new emigres].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-05-01 00:37|| 2009-05-01 00:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Call it the ManBirdPig flu.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-05-01 01:24|| 2009-05-01 01:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Good question! I dunno...

Who is to stop me from using 'swine flu' name?

Who else?

The STONECUTTERS!

Posted by OldSpook 2009-05-01 01:28|| 2009-05-01 01:28|| Front Page Top

#4 We called one strain Spanish flu because we thought it first occurred in Spain. Another was Hong Kong flu because it seemed to come from Hong Kong. So rather that Swine flu, shouldn't this be called Mexican flu?

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2009-05-01 09:23|| 2009-05-01 09:23|| Front Page Top

#5 And the bubonic plague is being renamed the Butterfly Difficulty.

Posted by Highlander 2009-05-01 10:22|| 2009-05-01 10:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Montezuma's Second Revenge.

Posted by ed 2009-05-01 10:28|| 2009-05-01 10:28|| Front Page Top

#7 This is like trying to decide what color to paint the barn when the door is open and it's on fire.

(WHAT? It's Friday.)

Posted by Anon4021 2009-05-01 10:39|| 2009-05-01 10:39|| Front Page Top

#8 I thought we was calling it the Napolitano flu.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-05-01 12:06|| 2009-05-01 12:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Hell, call it the Wolf 359 virus.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-05-01 12:28|| 2009-05-01 12:28|| Front Page Top

#10 When in doubt, the media goes to an expert...

Paris Hilton on swine flu: 'I don't eat that'

Bullshit. I saw your video.

Posted by tu3031 2009-05-01 12:45|| 2009-05-01 12:45|| Front Page Top

#11 The flu with No-Name? The "Whatever" flu? The Porcine-Avian-Human Blown Out of Proportion flu? The Wag-the-Dog flu?

Posted by JohnQC 2009-05-01 14:07|| 2009-05-01 14:07|| Front Page Top

#12
Avian Swine Flu - flying pig jokes to ease your pain!

Posted by flash91 2009-05-01 16:53|| 2009-05-01 16:53|| Front Page Top

#13 Funniest term I heard for it was "Aporkalypse - Now"

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2009-05-01 17:11|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2009-05-01 17:11|| Front Page Top

#14 ManBirdPig? Wag The Dog?

Posted by Lagom 2009-05-01 17:43|| 2009-05-01 17:43|| Front Page Top

#15 An aboriginal friend calls it the piggy piggy flu.

Posted by Grunter 2009-05-01 17:47|| 2009-05-01 17:47|| Front Page Top

#16 Wag the Dog is a 1997 film starring Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman, about a Washington spin doctor who distracts the electorate from a U.S. presidential sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood producer, played by Dustin Hoffman, to construct a fake war with Albania.

Wag the Dog flu--distraction from the economy and other things.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-05-01 19:30|| 2009-05-01 19:30|| Front Page Top

#17 ManBirdPig is a ripoff from Southpark's ManBearPig.

Lampooning Al Gore and Global Warming.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsg5Qpiwwac

Thats the commentary from Matt & Trey above, below is a semi-ripoff made by a fan.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-05-01 21:14|| 2009-05-01 21:14|| Front Page Top

#18 *ahem*
some of us "the sophisticated ones" knew that. As well as Excelsior!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-05-01 21:51|| 2009-05-01 21:51|| Front Page Top

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