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chroniccolonicAug 18, 2010
Lou Gehrig: What is the matter with me, Doc?
Doctor: You have Lou Gehrig's disease.
Lou: Very funny stuff Doc...naming a disease after me. Ha ha...no seriously, what is it?
Doctor: Lou Gehrig's disease.
Lou: That was funny the first time. Come on now. Tell me.
Doctor: Lou Geh...
Lou: KNOCK IT OFF! I get it - everyone's got to be a comedian. Don't quit your day job!
Doctor: I am telling you, you have Lou Gehrig's disease.
Lou: I need a second opinion...
casspaAug 18, 2010
So, is he gonna get an asterisk?
randomeyesAug 18, 2010
"God love Lou Gehrig. Jesus Christ, poor Lou Gehrig. Died of Lou Gehrig's disease. How the hell did he not see that coming? You know. We used to tell him, Lou, there's a disease with your name all over it, pal!" - Denis Leary
lawisgoneAug 19, 2010
f**k Denis Leary.
lucas123Aug 18, 2010
I knew it was way too much of a coincidence that someone could contract a disease with the same name as he had!
eagles7977Aug 18, 2010
So then it would have never been named Lou Gehrig's Disease.
jason210Aug 19, 2010
Really?
sharkymiragicalAug 19, 2010
I'd like to see the dumbass who said, "Hey Lou Gehrig has this weird disease. What should we call it? I've got it! Lou Gehrig's disease."Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
moocowzAug 19, 2010
The disease was described before Gehrig, it was called Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Lou Gehrig's Disease is was just another (more informal) way of naming the disease. Alzheimer's disease is named after Alois Alzheimer, who first described it. Naming diseases after people is not uncommon.
testiesAug 19, 2010
Well Lou Gehrig had A disease so technically it WAS Lou Gehrig's disease.
therednewtAug 19, 2010
Seriously, just call this new one Lou Gehrig's. We've basically renamed the other anyway.
bioquarkAug 19, 2010
Rename it Hawking's Disease.
powderedtoastyAug 19, 2010
I've been saying this for years, who the hell is Lou Gehrig to get a whole disease named after him?
gumby013Aug 19, 2010
And soon we'll find the cure for Hawking's Disease is Hawking Radiation.
ollygbAug 19, 2010
how flippin ironic.
panicofficeAug 19, 2010
Man, it must suck for the disease. After all these years, it's like finding out you were adopted! What you mean that's NOT mah daddy?!
user500Aug 19, 2010
Not surprising. Aids isn't one virus but a bunch of similar viruses if we gave hem all different names we could cut the number of Aids future cases.
Also nice to see MrBabyman on the front page since that never happens.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
adhdocdAug 19, 2010
We will always lack the tools to reach the real truth, but we always will 50 years later. Stay tuned.
yougotmikelopezAug 19, 2010
Maybe you should watch the latest episode of "Real Sports: With Bryant Gumbel" They cover this topic and reveal quite an interesting find.
sgcanuckAug 19, 2010
strange. the disease lou gehrig was carrying was given his name (in honor?). if scientists realize after the fact that his disease was something other than they had established, then THAT disease should now be lou gehrigs disease.
its not that lou gehrig may not have had lou gehrig disease, its that other lou gehrig disease patients did not have lou gehrigs disease
/s
jesseberAug 19, 2010
WHAT A TWIST
Closed AccountAug 19, 2010
Yup, turns out it wasn't Lou Gehrig's disease after all... just a bad case of Babe Ruth's Syphillis.
nullcodesAug 19, 2010
No .. Lou Gehrig had his disease, the others got something else.
kinggorillaAug 19, 2010
I don't know what to believe anymore
shingoexAug 19, 2010
Whatever he had was still named after him.
Seriously...wtf?
ament001Aug 19, 2010
No, he always had and always will have had Lou Gehrig's disease, they just named the wrong disease.
paulperroud147Aug 19, 2010
This just in: Cancer does not have cancer.
solidaridAug 19, 2010
Lou Gehrig's disease != Lou Gehrig's disease
/divided by zero
cjdrewapictureAug 19, 2010
that's like...like a can of beer that's sweeter than honey
like a millionaire that has no money
like a rainy day that is not wet
like a gamblin fiend that does not bet
like dracula with out his fangs
like the boogie to the boogie without the boogie bang
like collard greens that dont taste good
like a tree that's not made out of wood Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
totosushiAug 19, 2010
I thought this was an article from The Onion for a second there.
kilsekdddAug 19, 2010
Proof that it is up to God to name all the creatures in this world, NOT SCIENTISTS!
t0spmadAug 19, 2010
These comments suck.
kimera2006Aug 19, 2010
That's almost like rain on your wedding day
wilc3685Aug 19, 2010
We could just call it ALS.
ghostalkerAug 19, 2010
As long as Micheal J Fox still has Micheal J Fox disease...
tripledekeAug 19, 2010
He would still consider himself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.
lennybirdAug 19, 2010
Scariest f**king diseases, ever. Read Tuesday's With Morrie.
doublebaconsodaAug 19, 2010
I just created a new disease and I am gonna inject it into a famous person so I can get recognition for it. - Umbrella corporation.
djkleinAug 19, 2010
Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery gets named for its original discoverer. Guess it's true for diseases too.