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Quailman
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 Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 2:54 pm Post subject: 241 |
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His time could have been better spent pulling over a suspected drug user.
Or a black person. |
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Jedo the Jedi
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 6:16 pm Post subject: 242 |
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| Quailman wrote: |
His time could have been better spent pulling over a suspected drug user.
Or a black person. |
In Texas, no doubt. 
Incidentally, the time I was pulled over and they were doing drug searches on every vehicle, that cop was extremely nice considering it was 2:30 in the morning and I was going nearly 10 over. He even said he wouldn't have given me a ticket if he didn't have to write one for expired insurance anyway.
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Samadhi
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| Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 5:14 pm Post subject: 243 |
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| I finished Dreams from my Father last week. What an amazing guy is Barack Obama: truly a citizen-philosopher. Kudos to the Americans among you for electing a guy who has wrestled so comprehensively with the race issues that seem to be the invisible basis of much of the divisive contemporary rhetoric. |
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Chuck
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| Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:45 pm Post subject: 244 |
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| One of my high school classmates just announced the birth of her second great grandchild. I didn't realize that any of my classmates where that old. |
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jesternl
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| Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:58 pm Post subject: 245 |
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that always reminds of of a quote about classmates by Bette Midler I believe..
"They live their lives, I live mine." |
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Mackay
Saviour of Spiders
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| Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 2:54 am Post subject: 246 |
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| Samadhi wrote: |
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| I finished Dreams from my Father last week. What an amazing guy is Barack Obama: truly a citizen-philosopher. Kudos to the Americans among you for electing a guy who has wrestled so comprehensively with the race issues that seem to be the invisible basis of much of the divisive contemporary rhetoric. |
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Hm. I'll bite. What kind of person is Barack Obama, Sam, based upon your reading of Dreams From My Father? |
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Jack_Ian
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| Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:54 am Post subject: 247 |
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| Jedo the Jedi wrote: |
| Incidentally, the time I was pulled over and they were doing drug searches on every vehicle, that cop was extremely nice considering it was 2:30 in the morning and I was going nearly 10 over. He even said he wouldn't have given me a ticket if he didn't have to write one for expired insurance anyway. |
I was once mugged by a guy, late one night, that was very polite. He had a blood-filled syringe and asked for my money, while apologising, and saying he needed it for drugs. He then asked me how much I needed for my taxi home, and handed me back enough to cover it.
Years later I mentioned this to a policeman I knew and he told me that it was deliberate. If I didn't have a way to get home, I would have reported the crime to the police at the nearest station. This way, there was a good chance I would just go home and chalk it up to experience. Which is what I did. |
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Samadhi
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| Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:14 pm Post subject: 248 |
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| Mackay wrote: |
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| I finished Dreams from my Father last week. What an amazing guy is Barack Obama: truly a citizen-philosopher. Kudos to the Americans among you for electing a guy who has wrestled so comprehensively with the race issues that seem to be the invisible basis of much of the divisive contemporary rhetoric. |
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Hm. I'll bite. What kind of person is Barack Obama, Sam, based upon your reading of Dreams From My Father? |
William Ayers.
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Mackay
Saviour of Spiders
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| Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 2:39 am Post subject: 249 |
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Are you interested in honest discussion at all anymore?  |
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Antrax
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| Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 6:23 am Post subject: 250 |
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Only in meme form.
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Courk
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| Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 6:09 pm Post subject: 251 |
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| That'd be a modern take on Darmok. |
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Death Mage
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| Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 7:51 pm Post subject: 252 |
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Nice reference. Makes that episode almost seem plausible now.
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Chuck
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 4:25 pm Post subject: 255 |
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| I went to a mail box to mail some letters on my way home from work and there was a guy standing there examining the front of the box. As I approached he asked me "How do you work this thing?", So I pulled down the handle and put my letters in and held it until he put his in, and then released it. He said "Thank you" and walked away, He appeared to be in his twenties and didn't have a foreign accent, so how could he not know how to work a mail box? |
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bgg1996
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:06 pm Post subject: 256 |
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| Chuck wrote: |
| I went to a mail box to mail some letters on my way home from work and there was a guy standing there examining the front of the box. As I approached he asked me "How do you work this thing?", So I pulled down the handle and put my letters in and held it until he put his in, and then released it. He said "Thank you" and walked away, He appeared to be in his twenties and didn't have a foreign accent, so how could he not know how to work a mail box? |
Everybody uses E-mail now.
And I only ever use that to authenticate accounts.
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Chuck
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| Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 1:13 am Post subject: 257 |
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| So then he's probably not a visiting space alien? |
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Antrax
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| Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 5:44 am Post subject: 258 |
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Not sure we can rule that out completely, but it's been about four years since I've last used an actual mailbox.What's wrong with sending letters through the post office?
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Courk
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| Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 4:59 am Post subject: 259 |
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| Chuck wrote: |
| I went to a mail box to mail some letters on my way home from work and there was a guy standing there examining the front of the box. As I approached he asked me "How do you work this thing?", So I pulled down the handle and put my letters in and held it until he put his in, and then released it. He said "Thank you" and walked away, He appeared to be in his twenties and didn't have a foreign accent, so how could he not know how to work a mail box? |
That's adorable. |
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Pablo
Never Draws a Blank
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| Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 7:29 pm Post subject: 260 |
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Steel Wheels
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Dragon Phoenix
Judge Doom
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| Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:10 pm Post subject: 262 |
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We are currently looking to buy a house in Kampen (about an hour from here), which includes a shop where Bambi can exhibit her works. We visited this old town a few times before, the first time in 2006. Bambi and I just went through the photographs we took then - turns out one of them shows me in front of the very house/shop we are now thinking of buying.....
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Zag
Unintentionally offensive old coot
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| Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:58 pm Post subject: 263 |
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| Pablo wrote: |
Steel Wheels
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Steel Wheel
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Pablo
Never Draws a Blank
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:28 am Post subject: 264 |
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referee
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:34 pm Post subject: 265 |
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http://www.greylabyrinth.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=14281 Massive sheep game. We're going for an all-time record of participation here. So if you haven't sent your answers yet, go do it now. Three days left!
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Quailman
His Postmajesty
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 3:56 pm Post subject: 266 |
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You guys know that I am an avid birder, and I posted a review of The Big Year, about three guys trying to see as many different birds in North America in one year as they could. Well, I've been keeping up with a birder's blog as he pursues the record of 745. Most people think of birding as a pretty laid back hobby. Here's what happened to him the other day.
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At 10:00 AM I pulled up next to the gate in front of the Salineno preserve and feeding station. Three acres of land purchased by the Valley Land Fund with feeders manned daily by volunteers. It’s been a mecca for birders since the seventies and for the last five days has had two Brown Jays as periodic guests.
A couple was leaving as I approached and they informed me that both jays had been there moments ago but were presently gone. This was an opportunity to preposition my car and grab a hat before they returned. That’s when things got tense. I drove down the fifty yards to the bottom of the hill and to the edge of the Rio Grande to turn around, but as I was turning I noticed two Mexicans wading across the Rio Grande with backbacks and rifles held high. Immediately a Border Patrol SUV came speeding towards me with flashing red lights. The officer stopped his vechicle, rolled down the window and asked if I was all right? Then he informed me that there were armed Cartel in the area. I responded that I’d just seen two armed gunmen cross 100 yards upstream. He told me to get out and then sped away. I didn’t know what to do but decided I needed to warn the birders at Salineo (there were three plus two hosts). The next forty-five minutes was tense. Helicopters flying immediately over us, scout planes flying back and forth and the sound of border patrol cars racing back and forth, anxious talking and doors slamming. Not pleasant. Apparently two Border Patrolman had positioned their vehicles to keep anyone from entering the preserve, though that prohibited the frightened birders from leaving. After forty minutes the sounds of aircraft had stopped. I ventured out to ask the Border Patrol if the coast was clear. They said indeed that the Cartel members were now in the hands of the Mexican Military. II glanced across the river and on the Mexican side were at least twenty Mexican soldiers, helmets on and automatic weapons drawn
After everything calmed down I went back to wait for the jays. At 11:15 AM the juvenal arrived. Number 738 with a story to tell my grandchildren to go with it. |
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Courk
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 2:53 pm Post subject: 267 |
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| I read something about him the other day, I think in my local paper. I assume it's him, probably not too many people in one year close to the record. |
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Zag
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 1:08 pm Post subject: 268 |
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This is all kinds of awesome.
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LordKinbote
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| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 11:46 pm Post subject: 269 |
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I recently took a blood test to see if I was a CF carrier. The test was supposed to be $180 out of pocket (not counting insurance coverage, which would obviously bring it lower). I received a 7 page bill today for over $600. The exact same tests were listed literally dozens of times.
So we called customer support at the lab that ran the test. My wife is a doctor so she manned (womanned?) the phone.
Wife: We received a bill for a blood test that has the exact same test run 37 times. Could you explain this?
Customer Support: Well, the test was so inexpensive that it was run multiple times.
Wife: Are you sure this wasn't a glitch?
CS: Oh, there's no glitch.
Mind. Boggled. My wife is currently on a rampage. I'm actually afraid of her right now. |
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Death Mage
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:28 am Post subject: 270 |
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| Customer Support: Well, the test was so inexpensive that it was run multiple times. |
That CAN'T be accurate. That's like saying "Your oil change was so cheap, we repeated it a few dozen times" when you go to pick up your car a Jiffy Lube. I don't see how it's legal either. You ordered *A* blood test, not a battery of them, right?
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Zag
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:32 am Post subject: 271 |
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Try this:
Excellent! I'm glad to see that you are doing all you can to make sure that your interns are well trained. Of course, I'm only going to pay for the first three times you ran the test, and the rest is on you. I'll be dropping a check for $48.65 in the mail, and I'll appreciate you closing my account. And I'll be sending a copy of this conversation, and my result, to the Attorney General of the state.
Thanks! |
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LordKinbote
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 3:07 am Post subject: 272 |
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| Death Mage wrote: |
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| Customer Support: Well, the test was so inexpensive that it was run multiple times. |
That CAN'T be accurate. That's like saying "Your oil change was so cheap, we repeated it a few dozen times" when you go to pick up your car a Jiffy Lube. I don't see how it's legal either. You ordered *A* blood test, not a battery of them, right? |
Single blood test, for one thing: cystic fibrosis. My wife is a carrier. Luckily I'm not, because we're due at the end of May. |
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Deception
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 3:22 am Post subject: 273 |
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Well, honestly a test like that is often ran multiple times, and if I were getting tested there's a good chance I'd want it done multiple times as well.
Although 37 seems a little much, and that's a prime number so haha I don't know what is up with that. Someone upstairs or in accounting is probably messing with you because I don't think a scientist would have ran the test 37 times in succession on the same blood sample.
Zags' response is clever though, I'd use it. |
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LordKinbote
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 3:58 am Post subject: 274 |
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Well, honestly a test like that is often ran multiple times, and if I were getting tested there's a good chance I'd want it done multiple times as well.
Although 37 seems a little much, and that's a prime number so haha I don't know what is up with that. Someone upstairs or in accounting is probably messing with you because I don't think a scientist would have ran the test 37 times in succession on the same blood sample.
Zags' response is clever though, I'd use it. |
It actually wasn't 37, I didn't count. My wife counted afterwards...one of the listed tests was run over 100 times. |
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Antrax
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 5:23 am Post subject: 275 |
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Congrats, LK! Also, that has got to be one of the stupidest customer service replies I've ever read about, including specialty articles about stupid customer service reps.
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Deception
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 7:53 pm Post subject: 276 |
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I have a sneaking suspicion of what happened, but it requires you and your wife to have misread some crucial details about the tests you were taking (you ran more than the blood test, I assume).
Actually it requires you to be partially illiterate or perhaps a frequent user of recreational drugs; I have no good ideas of what happened. |
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LordKinbote
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:56 pm Post subject: 277 |
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| Deception wrote: |
I have a sneaking suspicion of what happened, but it requires you and your wife to have misread some crucial details about the tests you were taking (you ran more than the blood test, I assume).
Actually it requires you to be partially illiterate or perhaps a frequent user of recreational drugs; I have no good ideas of what happened. |
My wife is a doctor. She was present when my test was ordered, she knows exactly what was ordered and exactly how much it should cost, as she has ordered the same test for other people. And besides, she had the exact same test done and received a very different looking bill with a lower cost. In fact, I wouldn't have even gotten the test if hers hadn't come back positive.
All of this is a moot point...she talked with the lab today and it will NOT be $650 out of pocket for me, it will be $150. |
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Courk
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 6:32 am Post subject: 278 |
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| Congrats on the baby and not being a CF carrier! |
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LordKinbote
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 12:45 pm Post subject: 279 |
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| Congrats on the baby and not being a CF carrier! |
Thank you. My wife had a cousin who died of CF so it was a real concern for her, and she was not particularly happy when she found out she was a carrier. I never freaked out about it, partly because I rarely freak out about anything, and partly because I know the odds of me being a carrier were low. |
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Jack_Ian
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:36 pm Post subject: 280 |
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There's a lot of CF in Ireland.
It's thought it might have become prevalent after the TB epidemic here in the 1950's and that the gene for CF provided some protection from the TB, but it's mostly speculation. |
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