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The victors of the siege of Leningrad had subsequently perished of famine and an epidemic of some unknown disease which seemed to be a cross between syphilus and acne.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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Comically, in final section, syphilus is never named.
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We had drank our way through some awesome watering holes in Philly, stared carbuncles and syphilus in the face, and eaten some pretty amazing food that we managed to keep down.
Blogtimore, Hon 2009
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While she boasts the spread of "bubonic plague, syphilus, Spanish flu, all manner of mutant sexual diseases," she's more likely to give you a dumb disease like gender re-alignment virus, which temporarily turned Color Kid into "Color Queen."
mental_floss Blog 2008
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