My own germs!

[2airishuman]

ok, i see a new rally theme...

"the mr bubbles swapping showers rally!

i have long wanted to use art's shower, now i wanna use gene's too...

this would be good for us and good for the trailers....

cross inoculation with other 'streamer germs is good!

and it would prompt us all (me) to clean the shower stall just once...

imagine how the 'open-house-trailer-tours' would go...

if we all showed up with in a shower cap and carrying a tooth brush...

cheers
2air'

[Minnie's Mate]

In our family, the dog is the only one that doesn't go pottie in the Airstream...well, there was that one time he was left in the trailer all day long. That's why we have a child gate to keep him corralled on the vinyl floor.

[2airishuman]

nobodybutnobody...

usesmypoddy.

buttme.

cheers
2air'

[CrawfordGene]

Originally Posted by 2airishuman

i have long wanted to use art's shower, now i wanna use gene's too...

this would be good for us and good for the trailers....

cross inoculation with other 'streamer germs is good!

cheers
2air'

I was sure "inoculate" had 2 "n's" and was getting ready to chide you on your spelling, but luckily I checked, so now I must congratulate you for paying attention in school.

I'm not so sure about this shower-swapping thing, sounds kind of kinky to me. So that's what those rallies are really about.

Gene

[2airishuman]

Originally Posted by CrawfordGene

I was sure...

inoculate is literally from the latin for...

in your eye bud! no fooling.

inoculation date back to at least the 8th century in china and india as a means of dealing with the small pox...

and became popular with british royalty (the montagu clan) in the early 18th century...

the first known use of inoculation in the usawas around 1720, after cotton mather met some african slaves with the small pox...

cotton mather also invented the cotton ball that still comes in pill bottles...

these small pox vaccINations were initially done by taking PUS from a pox and putting it IN a freshly cut skin wound.

this inoculation (or variolation) resulted in a scar, that most of us over 35 still have.

really these were intended as minor exposures TO the disease in the hopes of NOT get a full blow case...

but as a vaccine, it didn't become safe and really effective until COW pox was substituted for small pox...

ed jenner (who had been variolated as a child) met a milkmaid who claimed she couldn't get the small pox...

because she had had cowpox, like a LOT of milkmaids at the time, she had had cowpox on her hands....

horses, btw, also got 'the pox' but it was referred to as "GREASE", no not the travolta/john musical.

btw, small pox was named 'small' to contrast it with the "GREAT" pox, which also could be found on the faces of royality...

the great pox was/is syphilis and it really WAS a kissing disease...

it is unclear IF dr jenner spent much time kissing the milk maids while doing his research...

which brings us back to "in your eye bud"s inoculation....

most of us think of a 'steam as a rolling accomidation for food, drink and sleep...

in other words an INN.

but the word inn derives (with english revisions) from the latin hospitium ...

which is of course the origIN of the words hospital, hospice and hospitality...

and hospice was once uses as the term for an INN for travelers....

SO if we DID SHARE SHOWERS, that would be in the spirit of hospitality and in a sense...

INN-oculation...

so my spelling was covered, either way!

or u can refer to my former forum tagline...

"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way" m. twain.

cheers
2air'

[REDNAX]

Man, that was a real jazz riff, 2Air . . . .

[CrawfordGene]

Originally Posted by 2airishuman

inoculate is literally from the latin for...

in your eye bud! no fooling.

cheers
2air'

2air, you left out the comma 'tween "eye" and bud". Eye and bud were used as synonyms in the definition from the superbly authoritative Dashboard dictionary. Thus Latin for "into the bud" or "eye", i.e., grafting a shoot into a plant, but why quibble*, Bud?

After all, the riff was worthy of a lawyer or other humble wordsmith.

Eye wonder if the Cow Pox was responsible for those rebellious cows we suffered those many months ago?

Let's ask the bears which they prefer—the woods or the Airstream?

Gene

*Why quibble? Because it's more fun than thinking.