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Old 07-23-2009, 01:05 PM   #1
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What's making you sneeze today?

A twist on the old clone thread. (I couldn't resist.) http://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=583419&postcount=4409

Some might say it's nothing to sneeze at, but I know better.

Achooooooooo!
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Old 07-23-2009, 01:08 PM   #2
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A summer cold. (It's a different animal)
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Old 07-23-2009, 01:12 PM   #3
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Mom always said "summer is the best time to get a cold." I never knew if she meant it's a good season for it because the hot weather is therapeutic, or if she meant it's easier to get a cold in the summer.

Not unlike putting water into a nuclear reactor. You can never put in too much water, you know.
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Old 07-23-2009, 02:07 PM   #4
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dusty weedy hay... not precisely today but last week

nor can you stare too long...
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Old 07-23-2009, 02:20 PM   #5
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Don't exactly know. Allergies - maybe it's a reminder to change out the dust filter!

I do know that when I pick the cucumbers, and rummage around the squash, my arms itch for an hour afterwards.
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Old 07-23-2009, 04:46 PM   #6
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Sunlight.
As ever.

But it's getting me dirtier looks these days.
My parents' ridiculous right-wing tabloid says 350 people a day will die of swine flu. I might be stoned to death in the street at this rate.
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Old 07-23-2009, 11:42 PM   #7
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Sunlight.
As ever.

But it's getting me dirtier looks these days.
My parents' ridiculous right-wing tabloid says 350 people a day will die of swine flu. I might be stoned to death in the street at this rate.
just wanted to note that this, of all posts, is your 10,000th.
carry on.
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Old 07-24-2009, 12:03 PM   #8
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Damn.
I'd been looking forward to it too.

Thanks for mentioning it - events overtook me and I completely missed it.
Hey, at least it's honest and not unkind.
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Old 07-24-2009, 12:56 PM   #9
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I'm dumb. It is making me sneeze:

I went to lunch early because, apparently, only Ancient Chinese Lady knows that if you're just STANDING behind the salad bar and the cottage cheese is empty, you can REFILL it, and I really wanted a salad today, so I grabbed a window of opportunity.

I brought it up to my desk to eat it, put pepper on my c-cheese, then thought if dude didn't care if it is full he might also not care if it's gone bad. I smelled it. After letting pepper fly all over the place. Achoo.

Stupidity makes me sneeze.
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Old 07-24-2009, 01:05 PM   #10
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After visualizing this sneeze, I'm wondering if there is now cottage cheese all over the place, too.

Also wondering if the cottage cheese was bad. And if so, how naughty was it?
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Old 07-24-2009, 01:07 PM   #11
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Well, the sneeze was delayed, so the cottage cheese, which wasn't at all rancid, survived the event.
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Old 07-24-2009, 11:56 PM   #12
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Well, snorting the pizzeria garlic powder does not make you sneeze -- but you might start hallucinating that you've been teleported to Italy.

"It's Saint Marks'... the pigeons! The pigeons!!"

Sprinkling cottage cheese with a condiment: "It is impossible," sayeth Kehlog Albran in The Profit, "to put too much salt on cottage cheese." At least so long as the cottage cheese is still visible under the salt, I suppose.

I get the sunlight kerchoo, too, SG. It's a reflex, known to the medical profession. The "photic reflex."
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Old 07-25-2009, 12:03 AM   #13
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Ooh! I just read a thing in a magazine in a doctor's waiting room today, about why they think the photic reflex happens (and it happens in 20%-33% of the population, BTW.)

The article said it's because there's a nerve, that starts with tel-something, which is responsible for sensing the light around you and closing your pupils quickly when you go from dark to light. And this nerve is right next to the nerve in the brain that triggers sneezing. They think that in photic-reflex-sneezers, the nerves are especially close, and triggering one causes the other to fire as well.
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Old 07-25-2009, 07:37 AM   #14
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And I have "evidence" that it's gentic.
Given that the plural of experience is not proof... I get it down my father's side of the family. My bro and Dads have it too - but of course I have it more. Of course! But I have read proper evidence.

You know how yawning is contagious?
Sneezing is, in my life.
I put my face in the right frame for sneezing and it comes on.

Walk down a bright street with me and everybody stares. Well, children and old people anyway. I sneeze in batches of 5 and can easily manage 10 by the end of the street. This can go up to 20 if I'm in and out of the sun.

Funny that you mentioned St Marks, UG - Venice is the worst place in the world for a photic-sneezer! All dark alleyways and sudden bright squares. I went there on my honeymoon and my ex delighted in counting down the seconds until my next sneeze. In a lovely way (this was not why we divorced).
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Old 07-26-2009, 11:52 PM   #15
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If only orgasm worked the same way.
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