37 Pandemics That Never Really Took Off

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  1. The Pearls Before Swine Flu
  2. Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, Knees and Toes Disease
  3. The Periwinkle Death
  4. A Rheumatic Fever With A View
  5. Sunday Morning Fever
  6. Spray Tanner’s Disease
  7. A Smallpox on Both Your Houses Flu
  8. Water Polio
  9. SLURS
  10. Goodbye, Rubella Tuesday
  11. Corona With Lime Disease
  12. The Golf Clap; or I Only Win When Tiger’s Gonorrhea
  13. The Co-Sleeping Sickness
  14. Beethoven’s Fifth’s Disease
  15. Inconspicuous Consumption
  16. Button-Down Cholera
  17. The Crayola Virus
  18. The What Are You, Chicken? Pox
  19. Eyes And Ears And Mouth And Nose Disease
  20. Sweating The Small Stuff Sickness
  21. The Putting Lipstick On A Pig Flu
  22. Amtrax
  23. The Chunky Monkey Pox
  24. The Sardonic Plague
  25. The Whooping Goldberg Cough
  26. ABETS
  27. The Grumps
  28. The You Can Put A Hat On A Pig Flu
  29. Spotted Dick Fever
  30. A Rheumatism Of One’s Own
  31. Jungle Fever
  32. The Spanish Peanut Flu
  33. The Eat Like A Bird Flu
  34. Love in The Time of Button-Down Cholera
  35. The Nicetomeetya Strain
  36. Sad Cow Disease
  37. The What About Measles

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05.04.2009 at 7:37 pm

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1 eliz 05.04.2009 at 5:09 am

Very nice! And I’m eager to see the finished product on the redesign. (Are you up at 5 a.m. doing this, btw?)

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2 weezy 05.04.2009 at 6:28 am

LOL!

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3 anna 05.04.2009 at 6:41 am

@eliz, no, I did it last night and am still working on it! I’m not very quick with this stuff, since I’m still learning. But I decided there was too much going on in my old design.

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4 Laurin 05.04.2009 at 7:30 am

Putting Lipstick on a Pig Flu. Nice.

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5 Christine 05.04.2009 at 7:39 am

Joe Biden seems to be trying to do his part to prevent the spread of Amtrax. Fun list!

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6 Kerry 05.04.2009 at 7:55 am

I can’t decide whether this is your best list ever, or the dryer sheet one is. It’s close. Especially on number 2.

I thought I liked the old design, but now that I see this one…LOVE the colors and the clean look. 

I don’t envy you the job of doing it though…it took me several hours just to get one of my ads centered. My eyes glaze over when I have to look at anything resembling code. I’m not redesigning my site until I am Dooce-level successful and can hire someone to do my bidding.

Kerry´s last blog post..4 Sites to Read Instead of the News

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7 blissfully caffeinated 05.04.2009 at 9:37 am

I’ve actually had SLURS and let me tell you, it was not pretty.

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8 Tish 05.04.2009 at 9:43 am

Nicely done! Coffee spewing and all that. ‘-)

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9 Ginger 05.04.2009 at 11:20 am

I think I get Sunday Morning Fever every week.…

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10 anna 05.04.2009 at 1:43 pm

@Kerry, every time I do it it gets a little easier. By my third year of blogging, I should be able to redesign google for them. Or not.

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11 Elizabeth 05.04.2009 at 1:58 pm

I’m pretty sure I still suffer from Sad Cow Disease.

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12 foradifferentkindofgirl (fadkog) 05.04.2009 at 5:47 pm

Genius. I thought you had gifted me with my favorite with the second one, but this was hilarious to the end!

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13 LY /PauvrePlume 05.04.2009 at 7:45 pm

ANNA!
I haven’t done the Listless Monday thing for so long… hell, I’ve barely BLOGGED for so long. The Academic Abyss will do that to me. Anyway, I’m happy to be able to share in the Listless goodness again, and HOLY CR@P! NEW DESIGN!!!!! :) I like the grey/red combination…

LY /PauvrePlume´s last blog post..‘O New Yorker: so close, yet so so far…

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14 becky 05.04.2009 at 8:04 pm

I am totally impressed that you thought of 37 of these. I would have been, like, “It only takes 3 items to make a list!”

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15 Becca 05.05.2009 at 3:26 pm

Anna, however did you come up with thirty-seven items? I love the Sad-Cow Disease!! I have missed being able to see your website as much, and I love the new look. Please come visit my site, it’s new and I am very proud (but nervous). All advice is welcome… :)

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