Oregon man suffering from the plague is in critical condition

New York Daily News ^ | June 13, 2012 | Philip Caulfield

[Chickensoup]

I recall a story about some scientist who took a spoonfull of DDT by mouth, every day, for several years as an attempt to prove it was safe

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I bet there were no flies on him.

[Valpal1]

To be fair the cat-flea vector is more common for single cases of typhus.

Human to human transmission is vectored by infected lice and is generally epidemic rather than single cases.

[trailboss800]

Oh boy, one less vegetarian.

[lonevoice]

ping

[cricket]

Things are more like they are now than they’ve ever been - Yogi Berra

Oh yes! Love that one. An American 'Classic'; as was Yogi Berra.

[depenzz]

I don’t know if your joking or not but your probably 100% right in your statement.

[Caipirabob]

#21 an excellent summary that really nails the core problem right at it's root.

Thank you for the post!

[miss marmelstein]

I don’t take birds & mice out of my cats’ mouths because I’m a vegetarian! I do it to save the life of the little creature who is screaming unmercifully in my ear. One of the worst sounds in the world is a cat with a victim. Yes, cats are carnivores; but if they’re gonna be so dumb as to snare a mouse or baby bird in my presence, they gonna hear from me.

I’m going to stick with my original posting: this is the silliest thread in the world. Some guy is croaking from the plague and freepers are demanding to see his party registration!

[Caipirabob]

The true problem:

[goat granny]

****My heart goes out to the guy and I sincerely hope he gets well, but what on earth would possess somebody to try to take a mouse from a stray cat?!?!?*******

Maybe the mouse was his dinner and the cat stole it...thiefen cats everywhere...

[dfwgator]

but what on earth would possess somebody to try to take a mouse from a stray cat?!?!?

I thought Stray Cats don't bother chasing mice around.

[Lazamataz]

I don’t take birds & mice out of my cats’ mouths because I’m a vegetarian! I do it to save the life of the little creature who is screaming unmercifully in my ear. One of the worst sounds in the world is a cat with a victim. Yes, cats are carnivores; but if they’re gonna be so dumb as to snare a mouse or baby bird in my presence, they gonna hear from me.

Wow.

Just, wow.

[miss marmelstein]

The annoying Gilbert Gottfried wannabe returns to make my life a living hell!!!!

[Lazamataz]

The annoying Gilbert Gottfried wannabe returns to make my life a living hell!!!!

Another Satisfied Customer!™

(Don't you have some mountain lion somewhere who needs squirrels and other small animals pulled out of it's mouth? LOL)

[miss marmelstein]

Hey, what’s with all you guys being so scared of pussy cats? I’ve got a cat on my table as I write this and if she chews on something (or, more importantly, scratches on something), she’s gonna have a little “time out.” It’s not exactly putting your hand in the mouth of the MGM lion.

[Lazamataz]

Hey, what’s with all you guys being so scared of pussy cats?

I've got two.

Hey, isn't there a grizzly bear somewhere, that you need to pull small animals out of it's mouth? LOL

[miss marmelstein]

Marie Curie was pretty smart but she and her husband practically played with plutonium.

[miss marmelstein]

We had a grizzly in our surburban backyard about two years ago. I did wrestle it to the ground while my husband called the cops. Amazing how the word spread out in the grizzly community...

[Lazamataz]

Once again, we're not talking about your noticably unpleasant halitosis.

Don't you have a shark somewhere that you need to wrestle fish out of it's mouth?

[goodnesswins]

Would you recommend McCullogh’s “American in Paris”....is it kind of light reading? I’m looking for something kind of light, as I finish Cheney’s AutoBio