What's making you sneeze today?

Shawnee123 · 07-23-2009, 12:05 PM

A twist on the old clone thread. (I couldn't resist.) http://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=583419&postcount=4409

Some might say it's nothing to sneeze at, but I know better.

Achooooooooo!

dar512 · 07-23-2009, 12:08 PM

A summer cold. (It's a different animal)

Shawnee123 · 07-23-2009, 12:12 PM

Mom always said "summer is the best time to get a cold." I never knew if she meant it's a good season for it because the hot weather is therapeutic, or if she meant it's easier to get a cold in the summer.

Not unlike putting water into a nuclear reactor. You can never put in too much water, you know.

Griff · 07-23-2009, 01:07 PM

dusty weedy hay... not precisely today but last week

nor can you stare too long...

Undertoad · 07-23-2009, 01:20 PM

Don't exactly know. Allergies - maybe it's a reminder to change out the dust filter!

I do know that when I pick the cucumbers, and rummage around the squash, my arms itch for an hour afterwards.

Sundae · 07-23-2009, 03:46 PM

Sunlight.
As ever.

But it's getting me dirtier looks these days.
My parents' ridiculous right-wing tabloid says 350 people a day will die of swine flu. I might be stoned to death in the street at this rate.

Ibby · 07-23-2009, 10:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Sunlight.
As ever.

But it's getting me dirtier looks these days.
My parents' ridiculous right-wing tabloid says 350 people a day will die of swine flu. I might be stoned to death in the street at this rate.

just wanted to note that this, of all posts, is your 10,000th.
carry on.

Sundae · 07-24-2009, 11:03 AM

Damn.
I'd been looking forward to it too.

Thanks for mentioning it - events overtook me and I completely missed it.
Hey, at least it's honest and not unkind.

Shawnee123 · 07-24-2009, 11:56 AM

I'm dumb. It is making me sneeze:

I went to lunch early because, apparently, only Ancient Chinese Lady knows that if you're just STANDING behind the salad bar and the cottage cheese is empty, you can REFILL it, and I really wanted a salad today, so I grabbed a window of opportunity.

I brought it up to my desk to eat it, put pepper on my c-cheese, then thought if dude didn't care if it is full he might also not care if it's gone bad. I smelled it. After letting pepper fly all over the place. Achoo.

Stupidity makes me sneeze.

dar512 · 07-24-2009, 12:05 PM

After visualizing this sneeze, I'm wondering if there is now cottage cheese all over the place, too.

Also wondering if the cottage cheese was bad. And if so, how naughty was it?

Shawnee123 · 07-24-2009, 12:07 PM

Well, the sneeze was delayed, so the cottage cheese, which wasn't at all rancid, survived the event.

Urbane Guerrilla · 07-24-2009, 10:56 PM

Well, snorting the pizzeria garlic powder does not make you sneeze -- but you might start hallucinating that you've been teleported to Italy.

"It's Saint Marks'... the pigeons! The pigeons!!"

Sprinkling cottage cheese with a condiment: "It is impossible," sayeth Kehlog Albran in The Profit, "to put too much salt on cottage cheese." At least so long as the cottage cheese is still visible under the salt, I suppose.

I get the sunlight kerchoo, too, SG. It's a reflex, known to the medical profession. The "photic reflex."

Clodfobble · 07-24-2009, 11:03 PM

Ooh! I just read a thing in a magazine in a doctor's waiting room today, about why they think the photic reflex happens (and it happens in 20%-33% of the population, BTW.)

The article said it's because there's a nerve, that starts with tel-something, which is responsible for sensing the light around you and closing your pupils quickly when you go from dark to light. And this nerve is right next to the nerve in the brain that triggers sneezing. They think that in photic-reflex-sneezers, the nerves are especially close, and triggering one causes the other to fire as well.

Sundae · 07-25-2009, 06:37 AM

And I have "evidence" that it's gentic.
Given that the plural of experience is not proof... I get it down my father's side of the family. My bro and Dads have it too - but of course I have it more. Of course! But I have read proper evidence.

You know how yawning is contagious?
Sneezing is, in my life.
I put my face in the right frame for sneezing and it comes on.

Walk down a bright street with me and everybody stares. Well, children and old people anyway. I sneeze in batches of 5 and can easily manage 10 by the end of the street. This can go up to 20 if I'm in and out of the sun.

Funny that you mentioned St Marks, UG - Venice is the worst place in the world for a photic-sneezer! All dark alleyways and sudden bright squares. I went there on my honeymoon and my ex delighted in counting down the seconds until my next sneeze. In a lovely way (this was not why we divorced).

ZenGum · 07-26-2009, 10:52 PM

If only orgasm worked the same way.

07-23-2009, 12:05 PM	#1
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	What's making you sneeze today? A twist on the old clone thread. (I couldn't resist.) http://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=583419&postcount=4409 Some might say it's nothing to sneeze at, but I know better. Achooooooooo! __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

07-23-2009, 12:08 PM	#2
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	A summer cold. (It's a different animal) __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

07-23-2009, 12:12 PM	#3
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Mom always said "summer is the best time to get a cold." I never knew if she meant it's a good season for it because the hot weather is therapeutic, or if she meant it's easier to get a cold in the summer. Not unlike putting water into a nuclear reactor. You can never put in too much water, you know. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

07-23-2009, 01:07 PM	#4
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	dusty weedy hay... not precisely today but last week nor can you stare too long... __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-24-2009, 11:56 AM	#9
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	I'm dumb. It is making me sneeze: I went to lunch early because, apparently, only Ancient Chinese Lady knows that if you're just STANDING behind the salad bar and the cottage cheese is empty, you can REFILL it, and I really wanted a salad today, so I grabbed a window of opportunity. I brought it up to my desk to eat it, put pepper on my c-cheese, then thought if dude didn't care if it is full he might also not care if it's gone bad. I smelled it. After letting pepper fly all over the place. Achoo. Stupidity makes me sneeze. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

07-23-2009, 01:20 PM	#5
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Don't exactly know. Allergies - maybe it's a reminder to change out the dust filter! I do know that when I pick the cucumbers, and rummage around the squash, my arms itch for an hour afterwards.

07-23-2009, 03:46 PM	#6
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Sunlight. As ever. But it's getting me dirtier looks these days. My parents' ridiculous right-wing tabloid says 350 people a day will die of swine flu. I might be stoned to death in the street at this rate.

07-24-2009, 11:03 AM	#8
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Damn. I'd been looking forward to it too. Thanks for mentioning it - events overtook me and I completely missed it. Hey, at least it's honest and not unkind.

07-24-2009, 12:05 PM	#10
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	After visualizing this sneeze, I'm wondering if there is now cottage cheese all over the place, too. Also wondering if the cottage cheese was bad. And if so, how naughty was it? __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

07-24-2009, 12:07 PM	#11
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Well, the sneeze was delayed, so the cottage cheese, which wasn't at all rancid, survived the event. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

07-24-2009, 10:56 PM	#12
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Well, snorting the pizzeria garlic powder does not make you sneeze -- but you might start hallucinating that you've been teleported to Italy. "It's Saint Marks'... the pigeons! The pigeons!!" Sprinkling cottage cheese with a condiment: "It is impossible," sayeth Kehlog Albran in The Profit, "to put too much salt on cottage cheese." At least so long as the cottage cheese is still visible under the salt, I suppose. I get the sunlight kerchoo, too, SG. It's a reflex, known to the medical profession. The "photic reflex." __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

07-24-2009, 11:03 PM	#13
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Ooh! I just read a thing in a magazine in a doctor's waiting room today, about why they think the photic reflex happens (and it happens in 20%-33% of the population, BTW.) The article said it's because there's a nerve, that starts with tel-something, which is responsible for sensing the light around you and closing your pupils quickly when you go from dark to light. And this nerve is right next to the nerve in the brain that triggers sneezing. They think that in photic-reflex-sneezers, the nerves are especially close, and triggering one causes the other to fire as well. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

07-25-2009, 06:37 AM	#14
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	And I have "evidence" that it's gentic. Given that the plural of experience is not proof... I get it down my father's side of the family. My bro and Dads have it too - but of course I have it more. Of course! But I have read proper evidence. You know how yawning is contagious? Sneezing is, in my life. I put my face in the right frame for sneezing and it comes on. Walk down a bright street with me and everybody stares. Well, children and old people anyway. I sneeze in batches of 5 and can easily manage 10 by the end of the street. This can go up to 20 if I'm in and out of the sun. Funny that you mentioned St Marks, UG - Venice is the worst place in the world for a photic-sneezer! All dark alleyways and sudden bright squares. I went there on my honeymoon and my ex delighted in counting down the seconds until my next sneeze. In a lovely way (this was not why we divorced).

07-26-2009, 10:52 PM	#15
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	If only orgasm worked the same way. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

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