# Anthrax at ABC **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 16, 2001, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-at-abc/87616 "2001-10-16T00:51:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-at-abc/87616/21 "2001-10-16T14:32:21Z")
Let’s get back to the real issue at hand. I didn’t mean to be funny (except it’s always funny when I pretend to rip Milo a new one). But you know, lacrosse is one of the few truly “American” (okay, North American, but more on that later) sports because it was invented (as far as I understand it) but indigenous people here. It’s not my goddamn fault if later Canadians adopted it too. Or, if those freaking native americans had no respect for future national borders and played it all over North America rather than confining it to what would eventually become the United States. More seriously, **zuma** … maybe it’s because I am the mother of a young child. But there is something about hearing about a small child being affected that makes it must harder for me to disassociate myself from the risk and tragedy. I think that’s been my survival method lately, and hearing about a little boy not much different in age from my own son breaks right through that wall. ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-at-abc/87616/22 "2001-10-16T14:45:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*Even worse to know fuckers like you are off playing Canadian sports. Ever heard of basketball or lacrosse, Milo? Where is your goddamn patriotism. \*\* Forgive me, Cranky. I’m up here where we don’t know where the Canadians stop and the Americans begin. It’s like the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. > [@](#): > > \*\*According to CNN, as of the time I’m posting this, there have been… count 'em… four confirmed cases of anthrax from all of this. \*\* True. Where’s it stopping? Do you know? Please, share. I wonder if the people behind this anthrax thing (and it isn’t necessarily Sept. 11-related, although it is no doubt Sept. 11-inspired) are kicking themselves right now. Because they are finding out it doesn’t transmit very well, and it is very treatable at an early stage with simple antibiotics. One would think that if they had it, they would fully know its capabilities. ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-at-abc/87616/23 "2001-10-16T14:56:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > \*\*Let’s get back to the real issue at hand. > > More seriously, **zuma** … maybe it’s because I am the mother of a young child. But there is something about hearing about a small child being affected that makes it must harder for me to disassociate myself from the risk and tragedy. I think that’s been my survival method lately, and hearing about a little boy not much different in age from my own son breaks right through that wall. \*\* well, at least the wall has been broken through. I guess we all have our soft-spots. but let’s not forget the many thousands of children (we are all children, we all have parents) who actually died in this. We all grieve together, no matter what our ages. That this latest victim personalizes it for you, is not a bad thing, or a good thing, I guess. 5000 babies are dead now, and it’s time to come together. ---
**Author:** ![Billy\_Rubin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billy_rubin/32/3622_2.png) [@Billy\_Rubin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Rubin)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-at-abc/87616/24 "2001-10-16T15:43:58Z")
I have a child too. I’m very, very fiercely protective of her. I recently saw a cartoon “Lady Liberty” holding a child wrapped in an American flag in one arm with a large caliber revolver in the other, caption read “the most dangerous place in the world is between a woman and her child”.I have to agree, but when Mom is done, _fear dad!_. While I’m all for being cool, calm, and non-reactionary, and while I totally agree that cooler heads must prevail in all issues, harming children is a sort of a hot button for me. I didn’t mean to come off sounding like a warmonger. I’m really glad this disease isn’t more serious than it is, and I’m most of all really glad the baby is going to be OK. And I don’t really even know what lacrosse is, but it has a suspiciously French-sounding name. b. [sub]who doesn’t think it is a sport unless it involves a steering wheel\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-at-abc/87616/25 "2001-10-16T17:39:24Z")
**Bob Scene** said: > [@](#): > > In my opinion, all you people who are spazzing out and acting like hate-filled, paranoid yahoos ought to get certificates declaring you to be honorary members of Al Qaeda, because you’re doing more damage to this country than all the terrorists in the world ever could. I hope you weren’t speaking to me. Since when is expressing outrage over the act I described in my OP damaging to the country? And I’d like you find the parts in either of my previous posts where I claimed that this is, in fact, an act committed by bin Laden and his people. While you’re at it, look at any of the posts prior to the one you made the above statement in, and see if you can find anyone who claimed knowledge of who did this thing. I expressed anger at the fuckhead who did this, because such a fuckhead is deserving of it. If you’ve got a reasonable explanation as to why I _shouldn’t_ be angry, and shouldn’t be allowed to _say_ that I’m angry, I’d like to hear it. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-at-abc/87616/26 "2001-10-16T20:16:12Z")
**Billy Rubin** said: > [@](#): > > And I don’t really even know what lacrosse is, but it has a suspiciously French-sounding name. I don’t know if this will help quell your suspicion or not, but the closest Ojibwe word for “lacrosse” is “baggataway.” “Lacrosse” is in fact old French, and appears to translate directly into English as “the crooked stick.” Depending on who you ask, “baggataway” translates directly into English as either “little brother of war,” or “bumpy hips.” This is not to be confused with “baggerangetaway,” which is _my_ favorite sport. * * * Oh, and **Bob Scene** , when you’re finished giving peace a chance, would you be so good as to explain to us _why_ nobody has ever before dared to attack the United States with nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons? I’ll give you a hint: we’re not promising to drop confetti on the first one to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Billy\_Rubin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billy_rubin/32/3622_2.png) [@Billy\_Rubin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Rubin)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-at-abc/87616/27 "2001-10-16T20:46:41Z")
Now I know it’s a French name for a truly American sport. Though I like baggerangetaway much better. Is that played with a crooked stick too? b. [sub]okay, I know I’m not _supposed_ to give Sofa King straight lines, but who could resist?[/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-at-abc/87616.md?page=1)