Yes, my mother's philosophy, revealed to us with her grandchildren (our kids), was "They have to eat a pound of dirt before they die." Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Joseph McAllister <pentax...@mac.com> wrote: > Drove a public transportation city bus for 6 years, and only got the flu > once. Never got colds, or any of the other things the coughing hacking > disease ridden homeless tried to infect me with through their hands, > spittle, or money. I attribute that to the immunities developed not only > from the constant exposure, but to my mother's philosophy that a kid too > clean was gonna be a sick kid. Questions to her like "what do ants taste > like?" were met with "eat a few and tell me" (bitter). Same with dirt, dirty > things, etc.. Not that we were dirt-bag kids, just not concerned with > germs. > > Swine flu? Kiss a pig! Wash your hands? Before dinner, but not lunch. Dinner > we used linen, lunch was paper napkins. Linen had to last a week. > > > On Apr 28, 2009, at 15:08 , Nick Wright wrote: > >> My problem with those little bottles of hand sanitizer is that it only >> kills 99.9% of germs. >> >> The manufacturers tout this as a feature (they proclaim it right on >> the bottles), but I see it as a liability. >> >> Because that 0.1% of germs that survive to reproduce will logically be >> the strongest most horrible versions of the germ. >> >> It's natural selection speeded up many times. We destroy the weakest >> strains of the germ, and leave the strongest to continue spreading. >> >> And meanwhile our bodies never develop any kind of natural immunity. > > If it doesn’t excite you, > This thing that you see, > Why in the world, > Would it excite me? > —Jay Maisel > > Joseph McAllister > pentax...@mac.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
