So, Masala Skeptic and Surly Amy have come and gone from San Diego. Drinking Skepchickally last Saturday night was too much fun. Lots of fun peeps showed up, I had 479 margaritas, and did not get hungover the next day.
I *did* get a head cold, AND I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE! The other Skepchicks are under the weather too! I smell a conspiracy!
Who is trying to weaken Skepchick by giving us pox? Why? Why, dear FSM? And, also, HOW?
The Afternoon Inquisition (or AI) is a question posed to you, the Skepchick community. Look for it to appear daily at 3pm ET.
I did it! Sorry! I’m just so jealous and sad that you guys get to have all the fun, while I’m stuck in boring Phoenix with no fun skeptical events, that I put a curse on you. SORRY IT WON’T HAPPEN AGAIN. *shifty eyes*
It was Colonel Mustard, in the Dining Room, with the mercury laced vaccine. He slipped it into some of the drinks you folks had that night.
Why? Because he’s a tool of Big Pharma! Like, duh!
Jenny McCarthy was on the toilet before you. Don’t worry, though – some I.V. antibiotics, plus bathing yourself in turpentine, should clear everything right up.
Did you eat the worm? ‘Cause worms are in dirt and dirt is dry mud and pigs hang out in mud, so you totally have the swine flu.
I’m sorry. I’m actually a super-evolved form of the H1N1 virus, and I infected you to learn all of your secrets.
My apologies…
@MiddleMan:
That was dumb… our secrets are all on this blog. Well they were… but now we’re too sick to blog. H1N1 mind control fail.
I’ve heard some scary stories about those lemon wedges they put in drinks, so maybe a sick person sneezed on a whole batch of them. I would expect the alcohol in your drinks to be a pretty good disinfectant though.
@Elyse: Ok, you got me. It’s really some creepy viral sex thing.
@MiddleMan:
You’re having sex with us?
@catgirl: I’ve heard such tales as well… Anecdotes don’t make for data, of course, but I’ll have my drinks fruit-less just the same.
@Elyse: Well, it’s not so much sex as you humans understand it. I’m just using your cellular processes to replicate myself by several orders of magnitude.
Hey, it is reproduction after all…
I bet someone slipped you a homeopathic preparation. They lace that stuff with natural things (e.g. bugs, leaves and dirt) to make you sick so you’ll buy even more homeopathic products. It’s a massive conspiracy perpetrated by Big Homeo.
Fortunately, there’s an alternative to homeopathic products called “medicine”. You can find it at your friendly local pharmacy. All their medicine is guaranteed 100% sterile and non-natural, just like science intended.
I’m fairly certain the illness is bird flu. Big Chicken has set it upon you and your ilk for calling yourselves SkepCHICKS. You aren’t even chickens.
Clearly you didn’t drink enough. If you had, the alcohol in your blood would have killed the bug before it got started. I suggest more drinking.
I THOUGHT THAT WAS THIS WEEKEND! There’s an afternoon San Diego Flat Track reunion at Kon Tiki Motorcycles, the pub would have been a nice stop on the way home. :(
@MiddleMan: I’ve never been able to separate the word pox from some slides I saw in a health class in 1977.
What kind of pox? I have a mental image of all the skepchicks covered in red, puss filled, itchy sores. Eww Yuck!
@James Fox & Gabrielbrawley: Hey, please. I’m a class act. Just cold/flu symptoms from me…
It’s a plot by the religious right to track the skepchicks via surges in purchases of medicine (and brandy, since with enough brandy, you stop caring that you’re sick).
@Steve: “Big Homeo” that is freaking brilliant! I laughed so hard cherry nyquil came out my nose… Well, not really. I wouldn’t waste cherry nyquil like that.
President Obama and the rest of those FASCISTS have been indiscriminately infecting people to rally support for Obamacare! They’re hoping that people without healthcare will realize how much they need it if they get sick. But, what those godless/muslim bastards don’t realize is that WE have the power of JEEESUS CHRIST on our side!
Of course it is bird flu, you are skepchicks.
@Gabrielbrawley: No, no, no, Skepchicks don’t get pox like that! Skepchicks are too cool for that. They get pox that look like cute little freckles. Oh, and girls don’t fart, right?
@daedalus2u: That joke laid an egg…
The “no margarita” control group shows no signs of illness. Unfortunately this group is too small to offer any conclusive evidence. In addition, other factors (such as the germ-fighting properties of vodka) must be taken into consideration.
Probably someone bathed in the batches of margaritas they gave to you.
@IBY, yes, the worm.
@Vengeful Harridan (Elexina): Oh good, freckles are extra sexy. At least I think so.
Hey, that could be a future AI when they are really groping for something.
Why are freckles sexy?
I don’t know, but I have the deathness too.
Was there any mango in the margaritas? It’s been the culprit before, so….just checkin’.