# Plush Microbes!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plush-microbes/239543>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 12, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plush-microbes/239543 "2004-04-12T02:09:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plush-microbes/239543/1 "2004-04-12T02:09:51Z")

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[Bet you can’t contract just one!](http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/6708/)

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**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plush-microbes/239543/2 "2004-04-12T02:17:32Z")

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Those are just odd, in a not-so-bad way. Mr. Clawbane wants the beer yeast one.

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**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plush-microbes/239543/3 "2004-04-12T02:20:34Z")

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It’ll be interesting to see what the plushie community does with those.

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**Author:** ![kellner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@kellner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellner)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plush-microbes/239543/4 "2004-04-12T02:38:42Z")

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I want nothing but a plush _escherichia coli_. :mad:

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**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plush-microbes/239543/5 "2004-04-12T02:43:54Z")

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> [@kellner](#):
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> I want nothing but a plush _escherichia coli_. :mad:

So, write the company, maybe they’ll expand their product’s scope? Worth a shot.

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**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plush-microbes/239543/6 "2004-04-12T02:44:57Z")

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Damn it, there are no spirochetes!

“Hey, baby, wanna go back to my place? I’ll show you my syphilis! …hey, where are you going?”

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**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plush-microbes/239543/7 "2004-04-12T03:02:51Z")

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It is taking a whole lot of willpower to hold myself back from buying one and using it as our class mascot.

But the little _Helicobacter pylori_ is just so darn cute with all his little flagella!  
Aw, they’re out of stock. ☹

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**Author:** ![Br\_er\_Lapin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Br\_er\_Lapin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Br_er_Lapin)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plush-microbes/239543/8 "2004-04-12T04:46:24Z")

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Completely amazing. I need to buy all of them, though I wish they had some less cliche microbes, such as _[Epulopiscium fishelsoni](http://www.accessexcellence.org/LC/ST/st12bg.html)_.