As of late, I feel like my latest attempts at flirting have gone like this....
Or this (I don't really watch the show but the clip has things about right).
Well, I guess I should give myself some credit. I haven't been having any conversations about athletes foot, gas, or leprosy... My mind just keeps going blank and then I feel like I prattle on about the weather and other small talky sorts of things. I need to pick up my game. There are men that I think could be my type, men I want to get to know better, men in all their tall, dark, handsome, and nerdy splendor. Even if they aren't interested in going out with me, I want to know I didn't let the opportunity pass me by. So this is me resolving to be a more engaging conversationalist, to make the arm grab even though it almost always makes me feel like a robot, and to work my thunder
::insert KaChowBoomchickaBoomSkadoosh soundeffect here::.
Well, since this blog isn't me flirting with a boy... I mentioned leprosy and when I think about leprosy I ALWAYS get this song stuck in my head and now I'm sharing. It delights the nerd within me.
Leprosy
(To the tune of Yesterday by the Beatles)
Leprosy,
Bits and pieces falling off of me
But it isn't the toxicity
It's just neglect of injury
Suddenly,
I'm not half the man I used to be
Can't feel anything peripherally
From swollen nerves, hypersensitivity
Why don't leprae grow in vitro we cannot say
In vivo they grow very slow, once in 12 d....a.....ys
Hard to get,
But the stigma hasn't faded yet
Don't keep an armadillo as a pet,
Clofazimine and Dapsone, Don't forget.
Arranged by J. Sadinoff, 1989
More about leprosy that's cool!!
ReplyDeleteStudy: Leprosy-Causing Bacteria Convert Nerve Cells Into Stem Cells.
BBC News (1/18, Gallagher) reports that a "study, in the journal Cell, showed leprosy-causing bacteria turning nerves into stem cells and muscle." One of the researchers, Professor Anura Rambukkana, said, "This is a stem cell that is generated by the body's own tissue so the immune system does not recognise it and they can get any place they want without being attacked," adding, "It's the first time a bacterial infection has been shown to make stem cells, that's the big thing here." Professor Chris Mason, a specialist in stem cell research at University College London, called the process, "'alchemy' by nature on a grand scale."