David (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sageofgodalming) wrote,@ 2009-04-30 13:43:00 |
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When America sneezes...
...the world starts pointing the finger:
"It's those dirty pigs!"
"No, no, it's those dirty Mexicans!"
Looks like we should call it 'Smithfield flu'.
Though given that it must have formed in a creature part-man, part-pig, and part-chicken, a number of prominent personalities around the world spring to mind as possible donors of the eponym...
ETA: I overheard colleagues this afternoon talking about how someone wasn't too pleased at being sent home. I asked why he'd been sent home: because he'd just got back from holiday in Mexico and had been merrily showing people his holiday snaps. Heigh ho.
...the world starts pointing the finger:
"It's those dirty pigs!"
"No, no, it's those dirty Mexicans!"
Looks like we should call it 'Smithfield flu'.
Though given that it must have formed in a creature part-man, part-pig, and part-chicken, a number of prominent personalities around the world spring to mind as possible donors of the eponym...
ETA: I overheard colleagues this afternoon talking about how someone wasn't too pleased at being sent home. I asked why he'd been sent home: because he'd just got back from holiday in Mexico and had been merrily showing people his holiday snaps. Heigh ho.
