I’ve been to Dallas just once, in 1960, for 20 minutes. Am I going to die?
I ate a salad once. That’s dalas backward! Am I already dead?
That seems to be what happened - in which case they should not be regarded as leaders. Leaders don’t just blow with the wind.
Yes, & you also owe taxes.
Is that for certain?
I read comments on one of the sites reporting this article and there were some parents on there saying they didn’t agree at all with the decision by the school board, but that several parents were in the meeting with dubious articles and urban legends saying why there was a threat. These more rational parents said it became a very heated argument but those who had the misinformation just dug in and refused to budge. Eventually the school board just gave in. I don’t know if those comments genuinely came from people who were there but the level of frustration they contained with the parents who refused to listen to facts certainly gave them credibility in my own opinion.
While I think the school board made a terrible decision by giving in to ignorance, I can certainly understand their logic. A 21 day absence is easy, but imagine what would happen if the teacher got a bad piece of meat at the school and began to vomit with a bout of diarrhea. Frankly, any sort of illness would probably suffice. The ignorant parents would demand the school shut down, the teacher isolated and tested for Ebola, and while that happens a very expensive cleaning crew brought in to disinfect the school. The panic would be ridiculous.
These are the people who insisted that strawberry-scented lotions could kill HIV in the 1980s.
Boy, talk about yer bodily fluids.
I saw someone vomit on Houston Street in NYC once. Same-same, right? I think I need a 21 day with pay break from freelancing…
I once toured the battleship Texas – Og knows what bugs I picked up.
Lord knows, that thing’s full of seamen.
I went to high school near Dallas 25 years ago. Can I at least get the afternoon off?
That reminds me… I heard Groucho Marx singing I Scream, You Scream and he riffs on the Yale Fight Song, whose lyrics include ‘Boola, boola’, which sounds an awful lot like ‘Ebola, Ebola!’
Should I be worried?
Did he spit on you?
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I need time off around Christmas, so I guess if I go to Dallas around December 12th, I can take off until the new year.
We’re terribly sorry. The new Ebola Encompassing Emergency Plan ( EEEP ! ) guidelines are pretty rigid.
20 years is the cut-off. You are permitted to come in an hour late, providing you supply your immediate work team with lattés and Tim Horton Timbits.
And wouldn’t that have provided a perfect opportunity for the school and the district to educate people…which is the entire point of their existence?
I live IN Maine! Perhaps I should quarantine myself so I don’t get “teh Ebola” 
… I hear Dallas is nice this time of year…
Stolen from Facebook:
Just remember, more Americans have been married to Kim Kardassian than have died from Ebola
And:
More Americans have been Batman than have died from Ebola.
Hell, more Americans have slept with Monica Lewinsky than have died from Ebola.
I was a fan of that show. I should probably start making funeral arrangements.
I didn’t fly in, like, forever 