- The Pearls Before Swine Flu
- Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, Knees and Toes Disease
- The Periwinkle Death
- A Rheumatic Fever With A View
- Sunday Morning Fever
- Spray Tanner’s Disease
- A Smallpox on Both Your Houses Flu
- Water Polio
- SLURS
- Goodbye, Rubella Tuesday
- Corona With Lime Disease
- The Golf Clap; or I Only Win When Tiger’s Gonorrhea
- The Co-Sleeping Sickness
- Beethoven’s Fifth’s Disease
- Inconspicuous Consumption
- Button-Down Cholera
- The Crayola Virus
- The What Are You, Chicken? Pox
- Eyes And Ears And Mouth And Nose Disease
- Sweating The Small Stuff Sickness
- The Putting Lipstick On A Pig Flu
- Amtrax
- The Chunky Monkey Pox
- The Sardonic Plague
- The Whooping Goldberg Cough
- ABETS
- The Grumps
- The You Can Put A Hat On A Pig Flu
- Spotted Dick Fever
- A Rheumatism Of One’s Own
- Jungle Fever
- The Spanish Peanut Flu
- The Eat Like A Bird Flu
- Love in The Time of Button-Down Cholera
- The Nicetomeetya Strain
- Sad Cow Disease
- The What About Measles

37 Pandemics That Never Really Took Off
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Very nice! And I’m eager to see the finished product on the redesign. (Are you up at 5 a.m. doing this, btw?)
LOL!
@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.
Putting Lipstick on a Pig Flu. Nice.
Laurin´s last blog post..Swine Flu Funnies
Joe Biden seems to be trying to do his part to prevent the spread of Amtrax. Fun list!
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
I’ve actually had SLURS and let me tell you, it was not pretty.
blissfully caffeinated´s last blog post..Tell me why I don’t like Mondays
Nicely done! Coffee spewing and all that. ‘-)
Tish´s last blog post..They’re “The Producers”, Part III
I think I get Sunday Morning Fever every week.…
@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.
I’m pretty sure I still suffer from Sad Cow Disease.
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Genius. I thought you had gifted me with my favorite with the second one, but this was hilarious to the end!
foradifferentkindofgirl (fadkog)´s last blog post..i’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!
ANNA!
I like the grey/red combination…
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!!!!!
LY /PauvrePlume´s last blog post..‘O New Yorker: so close, yet so so far…
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!”
becky´s last blog post..Now More Bustier!
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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