1.14.2005

word of the day i dag er typhoid mary... merkilegt og paelid i upprunanum. gaman ad thessu.

Subject: Typhoid Mary: M-W's Word of the Day

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The Word of the Day for January 14 is:

Typhoid Mary \TYE-foid-MAIR-ee\ noun
: one that is by force of circumstances a center from
which something undesirable spreads

Example sentence:
"We don't want any Typhoid Marys here," the supervisor
told employees, "so if you have a bad cold, do your coworkers a
favor and stay home."

Did you know?
The original Typhoid Mary was a New York City cook in the
early 1900s who loved her job. Unfortunately, she had been
exposed to typhoid, and although she was immune to the disease
herself, she was able to pass the disease to others by way of
the food she prepared. Health officials identified her as Mary
Mallon, an Irish-born immigrant, and they quarantined her to
stop the spread of the disease. Three years later, Mary was
released with a warning not to cook professionally again. But
in 1915, she was discovered working as a cook at a maternity
hospital identified as the source of a new typhoid outbreak,
and she was forcibly returned to quarantine, where she remained
until her death in 1938.


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annars langadi mig bara ad slongva thessu inn:

survival kit contents:
one .45 caliber automatic
two boxes of ammunition
four day's concentrated emergency rations
one drug issue containing:
antibiotics
morphine
vitamin pills
pep pills
sleeping pills
tranquilizer pills
one miniature combination russian phrase book and bible
$100 in rubles
$100 in gold
nine packs of chewing gum
one issue of prophylactics
three lipsticks
three pair of nylon stockings

lak nidur af stolnum thegar slim pickens las thetta. en i heildina vard eg bara thunglynd af ad horfa a dr strangelove. kannski er eg bara puko finnast thessi gamanmynd ekki fyndin? well so be it. en thessi slim pickens, lek hann ekki i blazing saddles lika? eda er madur bara ad rugla thessum erkitypum saman? they all look the same to me!

en...enough naflaskodun. eg er farin ut ad labba med voffann. og eftir thad aetla eg ad reyna enn einusinni ad skella myndunum upp a svaedid mitt i cornell. thetta er allt ad koma krakkar!

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