The EU will no longer use the term "swine flu," it says, because it gives the wrong impression about the safety of pork. Okay. This of course has to do with the subsidies poured into the agriculture/livestock industries. Instead they will call it "novel flu." Lame, and apparently they don't give a shit about booksellers.
You will also no longer be able to get the chicken pox, salmonella or bird flu. Scarlet fever will turn some other color, preferably a shade not found in fruit. You'd think they'd devote more time to finding new terms for illnesses that are really offensive, like genital warts.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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There was a movement a few years back to rename Fish Kills, NY.
I'm reading 'Omnivore's Dilemma'. It'll make you rethink eating pork (and chicken and beef and corn and . . .)
I'm sure I couldn't stomach that book.
You surely know the Fresh Kills of Staten Island, too. I always found that evocative.
You may recall ages ago how they wanted to rename S. Plainfield as Holly Park, which sounds like an Asian starlet.
Did you ever do the formula for getting your 'porn name'? First pet + name of street. I'm Fluff Garden.
Mine must then be Toto Kurzröder. Sounds like nasty stuff.
I always thought it was first pet plus mother's maiden name. That makes me Titchy Smithson.
Whatever the formula they all seem good ways to hack someone's CC password.
oh yeah i mean Mitzi Marlboro.
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