It’s been quite a while since I’ve linked to any online tests. (I used to feature them every week.) There don’t seem to be as many as there once were, but this one — “Which Horrible Affliction are you?” — is pretty good.
Mine is rabies, which fits my, um, style:
Which Horrible Affliction are you?
A Rum and Monkey disease.
Via Dr. Helen, who’s rickets.
I don’t know what the other diseases are, but I think most people would agree that rabies is a more horrible affliction than rickets. Less curable too.
If the goal is horrible, then my bad is good, and I should find something good (at least educational) to say about rabies.
One of my favorite movies is David Cronenberg’s “Rabid”, starring the very sexy Marilyn Chambers:
Then there’s this movie, which I haven’t seen.
Those into reality-based thirsting probably already know that rabies causes an intense fear of water called “hydrophobia.” Much as I hate to cross the line separating good from bad taste, in the interest of science, here’s a purported photograph of an actual hydrophobe:
I do hope that picture is bogus, but with the Internet you never know.
Sheesh.
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4 responses to “Internalizing my hydrophobia”
I came up rabies too, and considering the answers I gave, that says something pretty frightening about, well, both of us.
I was going to say something about water under the bridge, but you know where that leads….
Oh my, it turns out that I’m syphilis! I guess all this good clean living is for naught…(and I’ve always been so careful…)
Rabies here, too. Probably right on target since I do foam at the mouth (when asleep, mostly).