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what is consumption and how is it spread

― vixv, Thursday, 8 January 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

It's the result of carbonated soda.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 8 January 2004 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

consumption = old name for tuberculosis.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 8 January 2004 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

You catch it by signing lonesome railway songs and drinking too much wine-spodee-odee. Then you have to lie on a cot and spit blood flecks into a hankerchief.

― andy, Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Characters in Dostoyevsky novels have conspicuous consumption.

― pete s, Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

As did Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge. Apparently it makes you thin, glamorous and attractive to Ewan McGregor. Hmmm....

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Consumption is caused by asking strangers on message boards to write your term paper for you.

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Thursday, 8 January 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

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