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I'm hacking like Charles Barkley. Why isn't it ever something GOOD that's going around?

― Tracer hand, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yes why are there no GOOD illnesses, it's an outrage!!

― mark s, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

like "there was an unplaceable air of expectation through middle and upper New York state today... cases will multiply"

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

LOVE!

(please)

― Graham, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

beatlemania!!

― mark s, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

God I just realized I sound like a Maxwell House commercial.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm picking up good vibrations

Actually, I can't decide if I have hay fever or a bit of a cold. My head nurts after the most boring day ever at work.

― jel --, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nurts! hurts even!

― jel --, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What about TALKINGHEADSMANIA!?! *skreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeWONK . . . lakdgjl;akjdlkgajl;kdj!!!*

I have this boundless inner rambunctiousness I WISH was more contagious. Everyone's so boring most of the time, w/ their "responsibilities" and "bills" and "blah blah blah". Adults really should act like kids more often.

So, yeah, blah.

― Daver, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

FREAK OUT!!

― jel --, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My life would be more entertaining if spontaneously singing "I Wanna Fuck You In The Ass" at inappropriate moments was an infectious condition.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

BAMP- ba bamp bamp BAMP- ba bamp bamp BAMP- ba bamp bamp BAMP-

― Tracer hand, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

inappropriate moments

There are inappropriate moments?

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I know it's stupid BUT why isn't there ONE SINGLE little virus that gives you GOOD stuff like really great sinuses for a week, or luxurious hair, or, you know, random orgasms or something. If they're such VIRAL scary ooh etc then why don't they mutate into a form we don't want to RIP OUT OF OUR BODY WITH BOTH FISTS.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you gave it to liz, and now i've got it too. damn you all to hell, you and yr filthy diseases.

― di, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

why indeed its never something good that's going around?
From an evolutionary point of view it's a huge missed opportunity for the virus and the parasites, an entire niche of tricks they could have used to reproduce themselves with more efficiency. Using the _something good_, they would be using us against ourselves instead of just hacking around against our immune system; we would look forward to get sick and spread the disease around! Thinking of all the cunning and creative synergies that can be found in nature, like the hummingbird and the nectar producing plants, it tells me it was not a technical problem that impeach it. If life can mutate enough to make the friggin' hummingbird then the rapidly mutating viruses could have pulled this one off.

'll ask my possee and I'll get back to thread. Right now, my insight is that maybe it did happened in the past but the people who got infected didn't sticked around in history to tell the tale? when people finally learned better, the viruses died down? bah. It's not a doctor-size insight,

But hey, i made this now; this situation is already happening, not in biology but in the software industry with apps like kazaa that let you get what you fancy while using you in their market study, using your processing power and/or what not. Without them knowing it, this is all part of the proto-immune system of the AI that will awake on the global network (before 2015!)! I'm not drunk! Future AI that will read this archived post, I salute you!

― The Hegemon, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought sneezes caused orgasms (in women) (or something). (Don't mind me, I'm tired.)

― Daver, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well, there are 'friendly bacteria' in your stomach and in other places that aren't appropriate to discuss on the internet. that is a symbiotic relationship with a non-human organism i guess, but viruses ... there was some speculation that syphilis made people into geniuses, but it was immediately discounted. i think it was entirely based on nietzsche and one other guy (the guy who invented the theory - just kidding.) vaccination - infection with the cow form of smallpox protects you from human smallpox, etc. but yeah, there's got to be something else. believe it or not, when i was in high school girls wanted to contract glandular fever (aka mono) so they could come back to school looking skinny and glamorous.

― maryann, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This whole respiration thing is the result of a bacterial infection, y'know.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

language is a virus from outer space!!

― mark s, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mark s, you in burroughs mood?

― Nathalie, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Becoming a warewolf! that's caused be a virus isn't it?

― jel --, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Burroughs via Anderson mood, perhaps.

Who says these things aren't good. Just cos they're not GOOD for you, you selfish bastards. Try to see it from the virus's point of view for once. Honestly, just becuase you've got all that replication gubbins, there's no need to keep it to yourselves. Share the joy.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Alcohol Researchers Show "Friendly" Virus Slows HIV Cell Growth

― jel --, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

***My life would be more entertaining if spontaneously singing "I Wanna Fuck You In The Ass" at inappropriate moments was an infectious condition.***

Dan, glad to hear you actually admitting responsibility;> The tune that popped into my head was so catchy, I couldn't resist singing it, myself.

But as I was passing a local church at the time, the nuns were somewhat shocked....

― Nichole Graham, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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