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   simpsonfan2 said, 4 months ago

   Be the first to get a disease, they’ll name it after you.
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   Bruno Zeigerts said, 4 months ago

   Gary Larson has a bug named after him.
   Having an STD named after you .. wouldn’t be much of a honour.
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   Pharmakeus Ubik said, 4 months ago

   More likely they’ll name it after the researcher, like Dr E. Henry Thripshaw’s Disease.
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   win said, 4 months ago

   Huzzah, Trout!
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   SusanSunshine said, 4 months ago

   If Agnes were to follow Trout’s suggestion,
   and her question ended up someplace like Yahoo Answers or WikiAnswers….
   
   sigh…..
   
   people might think she’s asking about “giant pointy feet” or “huge noses” instead of some invisible disease.
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   rshive said, 4 months ago

   Hi. My name is Agnes. I have this disease. It is caused by
   mosquitoes
   sea slugs
   hyena fur

   Its symptoms include
   itching
   death when the word aardvark is mentioned
   incurable hiccuping

   If you want to help, please send
   $1
   $5
   $10

   to
   my website
   my PO box
   my numbered Cayman’s account.

   thanks.
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   frugalnotcheap said, 4 months ago

   @Bruno Zeigerts

   I never knew that: since we’re looking at an afternoon of icky cold weather, “I feel a Search Engine Party coming on…”
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   J. Short said, 4 months ago

   Rhinomegaly, with pedeshyperplyasia.
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   jadoo823 said, 4 months ago

   …since my marriage went kablooey, if you google “oblivious, gullible idiot,” my picture and bio will come up…
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    SUSAN NEWMAN said, 4 months ago

    “Agnes’ Disease”??
    Sounds kinda catchy.
    BTW, Wasn’t St. Agnes an early Christian martyr?
    If so, this strip’s heroine just might be a self-martyring direct descendent.
    Something to think about when Monday comes.
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    DavidHuieGreen said, 4 months ago

    @Bruno Zeigerts

    syphilus was named after a character in a poem
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    rshive said, 4 months ago

    @SUSAN NEWMAN

    Yeah, there was a St. Agnes. Can’t really remember her story.
    -————————————————
    But in the ethnic group that included my Mom’s family, Agnes was a second-tier name for girls. The top tier was Anna, Mary, and Elizabeth. A number of others, of which Agnes was one, ran distant seconds.
    -——————————————————
    Granny bears more than a passing resemblance to one of my several Aunt Marys. Except Granny is wealthier.
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    Hunter7 said, 4 months ago

    It would be Agnes Syndrome. Sounds better. AND! It encompasses sooooo much more than a simple one hit disease. Allowing one to have….
    Rhinomegaly, with pedeshyperplyasia or just one
    Tinnitius
    spots – any where, any colour
    fever, or not
    breathing – definitely
    sniffles with or without the runny nose
    aches- somewhere, sometimes at night and sometimes just before school. And far to many more to mention.
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    Hunter7 said, 4 months ago

    With much thanks to prior posters. :)
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

    @Bruno Zeigerts

    Yes an insect not a disease organism.
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