# I'm sick... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 2, 2004, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick/267153 "2004-10-02T04:33:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick/267153/41 "2004-10-05T16:17:52Z")
**Doctor Jackson** : Oh, a couple of breath mints cured that… now how about that nymphomania? 😉 **ShibbOLeth** : I said it was from Shel Silverstein! I said I quoted! Am I in trouble? ☹ (Also, pregnant? Something must have gone down at that party of **Lobsang** ’s… :eek:) ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick/267153/42 "2004-10-05T16:25:53Z")
Oooh, neener neener neeeeeener!!! You’re in truh-uh-uh-ble. I’ve never seen them bust someone for a whole entire poem before! **hangs out and waits for mods to arrive** ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick/267153/43 "2004-10-05T16:30:18Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > I said it was from Shel Silverstein! I said I quoted! Am I in trouble? ☹ Quoting an entire work - song lyrics, poems, short story - even when crediting the author - is discouraged, as it could land the board in trouble regarding copyrights, if the work isn’t in the public domain. But bring on the cabana boys, we can train them to read bodice rippers to us as we relax. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick/267153/44 "2004-10-05T16:34:39Z")
:smack: ☹ I thought quoting the author’s name would be okay… ☹☹☹ ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick/267153/45 "2004-10-05T16:39:26Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > :smack: ☹ > > I thought quoting the author’s name would be okay… ☹☹☹ I would relax about it. IANAMod, but I wouldn’t sweat it. Now you know for next time (copying a snippet is generally okay). ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick/267153/46 "2004-10-05T16:43:59Z")
OK. _wipes sweat from brow_ ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick/267153/47 "2004-10-05T17:19:22Z")
Glanders. Definitely glanders. Or maybe runny end. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick/267153/48 "2004-10-05T17:31:58Z")
I’m thinking it’s spiders. I’ve heard that we swallow spiders all the time in our sleep so one has obviously taken up residence in your sinus passages. Cure? Tequila. LOTS of tequila. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick/267153/49 "2004-10-05T17:34:26Z")
> [@DeVena](#): > > I’m thinking it’s spiders. I’ve heard that we swallow spiders all the time in our sleep so one has obviously taken up residence in your sinus passages. > Cure? Tequila. LOTS of tequila. Or it’s spider EGGS, laid just below the dermal layer… and they’re all gonna hatch! And infest \*\*swampbear’s \*\* nanner sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick/267153/50 "2004-10-05T17:37:46Z")
> [@DeVena](#): > > I’m thinking it’s spiders. I’ve heard that we swallow spiders all the time in our sleep so one has obviously taken up residence in your sinus passages. > Cure? Tequila. LOTS of tequila. Yeah, but you’ve got to snort it. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick/267153/51 "2004-10-05T20:06:01Z")
Ugh. **Kythereia** , I started reading this thread yesterday morning. This morning, I woke up with a scratchy throat, stuffed up nose, a fever, and I dow talk like dis, because I caddot prodouce the ledder ed. Ed. NNNN. Ad I caddot stay hobe, because I do’t hab the extra PTO. I blabe you cobpletely. Thagk you so bery much. _ACHOO_ ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick/267153/52 "2004-10-05T20:49:10Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > (Also, pregnant? Something must have **gone down** at that party of **Lobsang** ’s… :eek:) Uh…can’t get preggers \*that \* way. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick/267153/53 "2004-10-05T21:33:06Z")
> [@Maureen](#): > > Ugh. **Kythereia** , I started reading this thread yesterday morning. This morning, I woke up with a scratchy throat, stuffed up nose, a fever, and I dow talk like dis, because I caddot prodouce the ledder ed. Ed. NNNN. Ad I caddot stay hobe, because I do’t hab the extra PTO. > I blabe you cobpletely. Thagk you so bery much. _ACHOO_ In your case I’m diagnosing exposure to cigarette smoke at the poker table, and a healthy dose of nymphomania. Take one of these :: reaches into his pocket :: repeatedly as needed. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick/267153/54 "2004-10-05T21:55:35Z")
I will so get you for that. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick/267153/55 "2004-10-05T22:27:11Z")
**Bookkeeper** : Runny end? Glanders? Talk sense, my good man (or woman)! **DeVena** : [Indiana Jones voices] Spiders. Why’d it have to be spiders? [/Indiana Jones voice] _shudder_ **TellMeI’mNotCrazy** : Spider _eggs_? Reason #4501 for the vomit smiley… **ShibbOLeth** : How in Og’s name do you snort tequila? :dubious: **Maureen** : If I send over all these cabana boys and an extra pint or two of Ben and Jerry’s, am I forgiven? (Or how 'bout **Shibb** , since he so nicely volunteered…? _ducks_) **Inigo Montoya** : :o ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick/267153/56 "2004-10-06T01:44:17Z")
Oooooooo…Cherry Garcia. 😃 **Shibb** just loves yanking my chain. Um. That came out the wrong way… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick/267153.md?page=2)