| lord of the flues found a sure fire way to avoid having a conversation with my elderly landlord if hes out patrolling the stoop. tell him i have the flu. he stopped short and literally backed away without another word. now thats power.
Milhouse: You've changed man, it used to be about the mucus.
thought i was on the mend but it seems like the flu is morphing into an upper respiratory infection. that takes me back. and tonight no sign of sleep. at least i dont have a headache (plenty of the dreaded body aches though), just a constant nasal drip and a mountain of used tissue.
and speaking of taken aback, no wonder my landlord responded to me as if i were the grim reaper.
"For people over 65, flu and pneumonia are the fifth leading cause of death."
To really freak him, tell him you have the grippe.
is that yiddish, otherwise ill bet its lost on him. could be wrong. maybe that was common parlance in his day.
Or the ague.
French (J'ai la grippe - I have the flu.).
But it's a word used by some geezers.
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- dave 3-14-2007 9:52 pm
Milhouse: You've changed man, it used to be about the mucus.
thought i was on the mend but it seems like the flu is morphing into an upper respiratory infection. that takes me back. and tonight no sign of sleep. at least i dont have a headache (plenty of the dreaded body aches though), just a constant nasal drip and a mountain of used tissue.
and speaking of taken aback, no wonder my landlord responded to me as if i were the grim reaper.
"For people over 65, flu and pneumonia are the fifth leading cause of death."
- dave 3-15-2007 11:02 am
To really freak him, tell him you have the grippe.
- mark 3-15-2007 9:49 pm
is that yiddish, otherwise ill bet its lost on him. could be wrong. maybe that was common parlance in his day.
- dave 3-15-2007 11:24 pm
Or the ague.
- tom moody 3-15-2007 11:30 pm
French (J'ai la grippe - I have the flu.).
But it's a word used by some geezers.
- mark 3-16-2007 12:47 am