# My old boss gave me syphillis! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 10, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-boss-gave-me-syphillis/399438 "2007-04-10T03:45:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-boss-gave-me-syphillis/399438/21 "2007-04-12T00:22:47Z")
I don’t really know. I have not actually gotten syphilis yet, only promises. You, know, the STD is in the mail, that sort of thing. I am sort of expecting hold it in one hand size, give or take. I suppose a giant plague virus, big enough to hug would be ok, but at five or six dollars each, I am pretty much expecting smallish teddy bear range. Tris ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-boss-gave-me-syphillis/399438/22 "2007-04-12T00:29:41Z")
My son in law came in while I was looking at the site. “I’ve never heard of a disease called hat before.” It was listed under the rarest of the diseases, the ones labeled “merchandise”. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-boss-gave-me-syphillis/399438/23 "2007-04-12T05:20:35Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] We have those in the gift shop over at the science center. But they’re usually the small ones-Beanie size. How big are these? [/QUOTE] E. coli is about six inches long. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-boss-gave-me-syphillis/399438/24 "2007-04-12T12:14:53Z")
My girlfriend gave me whooping cough - pleasantly understated, which isn’t something I expected to say about one of the noisier ailments. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-boss-gave-me-syphillis/399438/25 "2007-04-12T12:30:27Z")
Oh jeez adorable! Bring it to show my sister, would you please? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-boss-gave-me-syphillis/399438/26 "2007-04-12T16:45:41Z")
I’ve learned something new today: Pox = syphilis Clap = gonorrhea > [@Clockwork and Candy](#): > > Who knew Streptococcus Pyogenes could be so cute~? Hee! That’s the one I want. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-boss-gave-me-syphillis/399438/27 "2007-04-14T00:11:21Z")
So, my diseases came today! I now have the clap, the pox, the flu, HIV, and the Black Death! And I am going to a party tomorrow!! Tris ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-boss-gave-me-syphillis/399438/28 "2007-04-14T01:08:24Z")
That’s okay, Tris. I have a stock of Cipro. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-boss-gave-me-syphillis/399438/29 "2007-04-14T01:13:51Z")
Heheheh, don’t people tend to get the dread diseases AFTER the party? I hope you will take them with you. Very cute things. 🙂 (How sad that the only birthday I can think of coming up soon is my mother’s. I might have to skip the furry microbe fro that one). ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-boss-gave-me-syphillis/399438/30 "2007-04-14T09:31:43Z")
what, no clostridiums, no niesseria meningitidis? fucking amateurs ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-boss-gave-me-syphillis/399438/31 "2007-04-14T21:30:51Z")
My kids have the flu and dust mites. Love that site! ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-boss-gave-me-syphillis/399438/32 "2007-04-14T22:30:18Z")
I have the black death, but it got stuck in the corner of a bag I was washing, and went through the washer. All of my clothes had the plague, the washer too. I still get black fuzz out of the dryer every once in a while, and the plague is now about a half its original size. -Lil ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-boss-gave-me-syphillis/399438/33 "2007-04-15T00:18:28Z")
OK! I went to a party, and almost immediately gave The Clap to a minor! I think pretty much everyone passed around SDTs all day. It was fun! Tris ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-boss-gave-me-syphillis/399438/34 "2007-04-15T02:46:06Z")
I gave my wife Hepatitis several years ago. Only fair, since she insists on bringing her research home. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-boss-gave-me-syphillis/399438/35 "2007-04-15T04:17:21Z")
Damn, it was my birthday this week and I never told anyone that I want [malaria](http://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/malaria.html). Next year, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-boss-gave-me-syphillis/399438/36 "2007-04-15T16:21:10Z")
My friend just found out that he had [Mono](http://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/kissingdisease.html) , so I did what any good friend would. I gave it to him before he could give it to me! I also got some for myself though! -foxy ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-boss-gave-me-syphillis/399438/37 "2007-04-15T23:53:47Z")
Indeed an excellent gift. Our pathologist recently left to work for a biotech company and I found myself pondering whether to give her Ulcers or the Black Death. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-boss-gave-me-syphillis/399438/38 "2007-04-16T14:33:36Z")
Hee! I’m ordering Bookworm, E.coli and the common cold for my friend’s birthday! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-boss-gave-me-syphillis/399438.md?page=1)