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- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -9/+34House M.D. anyone? (for those not informed, this was the plot behind the latest episode of the show "House M.D." on Fox. For those who know about the show and haven't seen the episode yet, sorry, Digg does not have spoiler tags).
- crossix, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27Have you seen Kevin's response to the censorship issues? Why bother pressing the issue, your comments don't even have anything have anything to do with this story. I'm not a fan of dig or slashdot so mod me down or whatever, but I really don't want to have to wade through comments in every story of the same crap.
- heresy_fnord, on 10/12/2007, -7/+26Yeah I was just thinking the same thing. What an odd coincidence.
I love House M.D.!
Can you imagine calling out of work? I'm not trying to make light on her situation but "I can't come in today, I have the plague..." - chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20Ring a-round the roses,
A pocket full of posies,
Ashes! Ashes!
We all fall down! - EricAnderton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Reminds me of an old joke:
Doctor: I have good news and bad news.
Patient: Well, give me the good news first.
Doctor: We're going to name a new disease after you! - RTPMatt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15There is a reason they call it a whiteboard
- shakin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I liked House when it first started, but every show is exactly the same!
1. Someone comes to the hospital with a rare disease that's killing them.
2. House and team deliberate about what it could be.
3. They come to a conclusion and give the patient medication.
4. The medication nearly kills the patient or the patient gets worse after the medication does nothing.
5. House and team deliberate more about what the disease could be.
6. House decides he might know what the disease is, but his team doesn't agree and won't let him give the treatment because the patient doesn't want treatment or it will kill the patient if House is wrong.
7. House gives the treatment anyway and it proves successful.
There is really only so much of the same plot that I can watch without becoming bored. CSI is the same. 24 is my favorite show, but does suffer from a bit of repetition. 24's better plot twists keep it good. - SouthernDigger, on 10/12/2007, -12/+21Run for thie hills!
- gherikill, on 10/12/2007, -10/+17House is the best show on TV.
- Conway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"I'm not dead yet."
- NewEvolution, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I find it amusing that a disease that brought western civilization to its knees now only needs a good round of antibiotics.
That and "buboes" is a cool word. Buboes. - Keitosha, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Sorry, but the first thing that came to mind was a famous quote from Monty Phyton: "Bring out your dead"
- ksgant, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I love House also.
Where else on TV can you get a line like "try and relax your anus"? - culbeda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Let's clarify.... Prairie Dogs don't CARRY the plague... they die from it. (Around 98% of them once a "town" is hit) You're more likely to catch it from a squirrel or a house pet.
All of this taken into consideration, your odds of catching the plague less than that of winning the lottery and only a handful of people have actually DIED from the plague in the last half century.
Interestingly enough, this disease only affects the west and part of the Midwest. There is an invisible border that the plague simply doesn't pass. So if you're on the eastern half of the US, your chances of catching this are practically nonexistent.
/Dispelling prairie dog myths since 2001 - stuartnoble, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I spotted Hugh Laurie outside my local night club last weekend. Sadly I couldn't restrain the geek out and was too busy gibbering to get it together and go shake his hand.
- Kolar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Great, mod me down for asking a serious scientific question.
- ripter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Anyone else think this was a little odd for a Rare plague that hasn't been seen in some 22 years?
"An estimated 10 to 20 Americans contract plague each year, mostly in rural communities." - jedeye, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8House is just the Prince Regent (George) in disguise.
Now I've got my lovely fire I'm happy as a Frenchman who's invented a pair of self-removing trousers. - BrettJB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Umm... no, actually: http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.htm
- stuartnoble, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It's true, House is becoming a little formulaic. But I love his ascerbic personality and the humour is sufficiently "British" enough to keep me chuckling.
- gherikill, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I give extra respect to the basketball player that you dated in college.
- rochester, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3doc: Sorry 'mam - I misread your chart when I gave you your discharge papers. These darn bifocals. Evidently we are going to need to isolate you and ramp up on an aggressive course of treatment for the PLAGUE rather than sending you home with a sample of Tarter Contol Listerine to help treat the PLAQUE.
- Bluezdood, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4indeed, I saw it and I thought the girl (though sick) was kind of cute
- keybsnbits, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5This is nothing to be worried about. Prairie dogs have been known to harbor plague infested fleas in the southwest US. There are cases of the plauge every now and then.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/qa.htm - poordavey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i thought exactly the same thing when i read the article yesterday...it makes no sense. either a big typo or a major fact-checking issue.
- stuartnoble, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Ring a ring o' roses,
A pocket full of posies,
A-tishoo! A-tishoo!
We all fall down.
It's a-tishoo because sneezing was one of the final symptoms of the plague. - forgetfulca, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No one expects the span...! oh buggah.
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7"There is a reason they call it a whiteboard"
Would you give me that /Black/ marker? - smenkhare, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Dr. Who is the best programme on TV. House is the best American programme on TV.
- smenkhare, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3When I was in Santa Fe (at SFI) we had an orientation lecture where they warned us not to play with the prairie dogs because they carried plague. It all sounded very run of the mill - if you started having flu-like symptoms they recommended you saw a doctor to get some antibiotics. Not a big deal, although some people (us European types) were pretty shocked...
- molecool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, I live in the Hollywood Hills - I might need to set up a parameter... ;-)
- Herolint, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wait a minute, didn't that 100 Scientific Facts post yesterday say that the number of people killed by the plague was 75,000,000?
Great! Now I can't believe in science anymore! (or is it history)
Anyway, you can all stop running to the hills. - burke, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8House and 24. That's where it's at. I actually look forward to the start of the week.
- Prometheus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's sort of the plot of Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy. A radical environmentalist group genetically engineers a hemorrhagic fever virus that kills slowly and can be made airborne.
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2or they were isolated enough to not catch it? I suppose there would be at least a few cases where someone would survive, even without a genetic immunity, as well.
- xocomil, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Actually, this is the third story that I've read in 15 min with his spam. He earned himself a trip to my blocked list. :)
- stuartnoble, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Well this is what I was taught in history at school. But I do find it interesting to consider the fact that while growing up with hundreds of other children in my community I never heard the song sung with the word "ashes". So if the black plague reference is bunk then why is the version I know so prevalent?
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I find it more amusing that a disease that was all but irradicated in Western Civilization now poses the most deadly threat to us as a biological war agent.
But, to each his own. - monkzero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2damn i knew i was too late for the holy grail lines....
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6"Initial, I'm really getting tired of your spamming. This isn't the only article that I've seen you spam on."
Block him. When enough people do it, the magical Digg moderators will see that all he's done is spam his agenda and he'll disappear into thin air.
Digg's mysteriousness is good for a few things afterall! ;) - 1337director, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wow, and just after that episode of House where that lesbian had the plague...
- de46le, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"We have anal bleeding."
"... What, all of you?" - tombomb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have just seen the best advertisment ever. "Black Death Online. Shop Target.com"
(Look at the advertisements at the top of the page) - bmcnally, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Herolint
The Black Death didn't just hit once. I'm surprised the number is actually that low as it is said to have carried off about 1/3 of Constantinople's population (roughly 1 million) at one time. - samgab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1House is good aye! That was a good episode too.
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That was in response to Grey's Anatomy though ;). You're thinking of the one where Kelso called Cox "House without the Cane".
- cartwheels, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's the most awesome way to get out of school... "Reason for absence: Black Death"
- MikeWeller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here in the UK I've never heard the "ashes" version, I learnt the "a-tish-oo" which is obviously because of the sneezing fits people have...
- tidejwe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, the hills is exactly where you DON'T want to run to. Do a little research and you'll see that the "Bubonic plague" is actually still around in "the Hills". In fact, at the Grand Canyon and such areas like that there are even signs telling you to avoid the animals because a lot of them have been tested positive for carrying the Bubonic Plague (ie it is still around, as this story proves), and other such diseases that could kill you and many other people you come in contact with. In other words, don't feed the cute little chipmunks!!! :)
As a side-note...couldn't you see some terrorist start catching and releasing a bunch of cute infected animals in major cities? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Holy crap, this is no accidental infection. It's the CIA / bioweapons / germ warfare units, I tell you. You can bet yer life on it. I bet they're experimenting with different flavors of the virus, like the one they released in India a few years back which wiped out quite a bit of one of their western states. Just like they sent ultra high quality anthrax letters after 9/11 to cause panic and say 'yes' to anything GWB demanded, relinquishing all our freedoms.
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