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  • RUCerious Brought to you by MalWart your source for cheap plastic crap says: dbadass @#31~ Sodom, Gomorrah, Syphillis and Ghonorrea, all in one.

    Think Progress » Rep. Paul Broun: The ramifications of health reform will be like ‘the Great War of Yankee Aggression.’ 2010

  • We got to Tete late at night, after crossing a cool suspension bridge over the Zambezi River, and checked into a pretty dodgy hotel (perhaps aptly called "Hotel Kassuende" ... which means Hotel Syphillis in Kiswahili).

    Blantyre to Tete: mostly hitchhiking /12 hrs jen 2008

  • We got to Tete late at night, after crossing a cool suspension bridge over the Zambezi River, and checked into a pretty dodgy hotel (perhaps aptly called "Hotel Kassuende" ... which means Hotel Syphillis in Kiswahili).

    Archive 2008-10-01 jen 2008

  • I am confused as to why the Syphillis cake has candles on it though, is it one candle for every diagnosis?

    The Apostrophe is Silent Jen 2009

  • Robert, all Real Americans understand that the proper nickname of ‘VD’ Hanson is ‘Tertiary Syphillis’ Hanson.

    Matthew Yglesias » A Lesson of Sorts 2007

  • Maybe he is not HIV+, maybe he is in third stage Syphillis.

    If you are truly opposed to abortion, why would you have amniocentesis -- as Sarah Palin did -- knowing that it might kill the unborn child? Ann Althouse 2008

  • I contained myself and held back the tears, that is until the point when I told him about a frustrating teaching moment that I saw as being the epidemy of defeat: I was attempting to lecture in Kiswahili about Syphillis to the WHOLE secondary school 130+ young adults outside, under a mango tree that was firing her weapons of falling fruit on us.

    Archive 2005-10-01 thais berglund 2005

  • I contained myself and held back the tears, that is until the point when I told him about a frustrating teaching moment that I saw as being the epidemy of defeat: I was attempting to lecture in Kiswahili about Syphillis to the WHOLE secondary school 130+ young adults outside, under a mango tree that was firing her weapons of falling fruit on us.

    very slow start thais berglund 2005

  • Syphillis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and HIV topped the list of e-cards sent, by disease, in 2006-2007. inSPOT grew out of survey data that showed more patients would be willing to inform sexual partners of potential disease transmission via e-mail and other new technologies.

    Discovery Channel :: Top Highlights 2008

  • "Apparently Lucinda The Syphillis Queen," I whispered.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2005

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