Common: as in the area we share? As in pedantic or pedestrian? As in happening every day? As in the norm? as in indistinguishable from other colds? As in respectable? As in orthodox or unorthodox?
We have an English nomenclature for maladies I am daft to understand. Now, now, keep those comments to your selves in the peanut gallery. A “Fever”?; the only part it resembles its name in is the heat aspect of it. Not really anyone with a Fever is in a frenzy, or in ecstasy, or having passion. Not many even in enthusiasm, possibly a few in mania, nobody would call it the newest wrinkle…let alone infatuation.
Mono fits though… nobody wants to be around someone with it.
Do you take Strepsils for strep throat?
Rhinitis, do pachyderms get this?
Tone deaf; can these people tell the difference between egg shell white and snow white?
If you have an aneurism, does it come back every year?
Influenza: did she ever leave?
And I also, as well, hope to, make room for, conjunctivitis.
Allergy; when you can’t yet fully prove that the priest did it.
Acute bronchitis, is this what the old dinosaurs would say when they were courting?
Deep vein thrombosis, I can’t get this, I play the Saxophone.
Do people in Galway get gallstones? Is that what their houses are build from?
Can an apiarist get hives?
Since we are past the Mesozoic period can we still get Mesothelioma?
Do mailmen get post-nasal-drip?
Can you have a stoke playing golf?
Will lip balm help throwing a football?
If you lost a missile, can you have a broken arm too?
If you are a pinhead, can you still sew?
Pour with Creme Cathy, I like a little froth.
Mark Hull Du Calumet, First of the coterie of York, Son of Don, Scion of Karl in the House of Pfunkstadt, Connubial of Suzanne, Yeoman to the Hun of Honda, Prevailing in the Seat of Hespeler, Having been again to Australia, and now Grandad's Land, and for some, from The Dark Side. Not am Main nor ab der Elba, but down the Donau, and with Turkish Chai.
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