sing-a-long
oh the weather outside is frightful
but I am inside watching grey's anatomy
maybe I will go sew my pillows
though I should probably have a glass of nog first
Friday, December 08, 2006
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11 comments:
i love snow days!!!
Simon,
Which Grey's Anatomy character are you most similar to, and why?
Are you sure that you are at med school, and that it's not a cover for collecting E.I. and watching TV all day?
mom, it was a snow day!
but if you have any tips on how I could bilk the government for some EI I would be most appreciative.
dear anonymous:
I would say that I have the ravishing good looks of mcdreamy, the drive and quick brains of christina, the laissez-faire joie-de-vivre of izzy, plus the gentle kindness of george. oh yeah, and some of that no-nonsense bailey tude.
mila says I am most similar to karev. I am mildly insulted.
he likes plastics and has no bedside manner. plus, he has syphilis so you have the communicable disease thing in common.
genuine question: which do you think is more highbrow, TB or syphilis? I would say that TB wins. TB is the five year cheddar to syphilis's kraft singles - which, incidentally, you melted on your soup at lunch today - which, incidentally, you enjoyed with a bowl of mr. noodles. who's lowbrow now?
That's a tough choice. I don't typically rate diseases in terms of highbrowism. I guess some criteria could include their historical significance, associated eponyms/alternate names, famous people associated with the disease, and multisystem involvement. I think both diseases would rank equally or quite closely on all of these, no?
you want to talk alternate names?
TB:
the yuppie flu
rosedale syndrome
investment banker's cough
TBMW
perigord tuber-culosis
forest hill lung
5-carat malaise
learjet's disease
conspicuous consumption
the platinum death
guccitis
syphilis:
the syph?
point: TB.
Are those real nicknames for TB or ones you made up? Actually I think that TB is a disease of poverty and living in close quarters. Maybe if you told your new neighbors that you have TB, they will sell their condo and it will become very quiet.
"he likes plastics and has no bedside manner. plus, he has syphilis so you have the communicable disease thing in common." Nobody said ZING! so I'll say it.
Also, Simon, your mother is right. While the syph is not any better, TB is definitely the disease of the masses. Truly highbrow afflictions: I'm no scientist but I might venture that these would include mouth cancer (only the type you get from smoking cigars), heart disease (only the kinds that you get from overeating foie, butter, and the like), Bordeaux Cirrhosis, Dementia from aristocratic inbreeding, and Malaria from safari. I guess the moral is that it's not so much the disease itself as how you got it.
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