June 10, 2008
I saw these things in the Discovery World gift shop.  They are stuffed animal microbes.  Some of the microbe stuffed animals you can buy are: brain cell, fat cell, salmonella, flea, the sore throat, bad breath, kissing disease, athlete’s foot, ulcer, Black Death, flesh eating disease, dustmite, and oh so many more wonderful diseases and cells.  Now, I don’t know about you, but, yeah, that’s kind of disturbing.  I mean, imagine someone noticing a little kid playing with a toy.  “How cute!” they say to the parents.  “Little Jane’s playing with a stuffed pink snake.”  Nope, that’s just a syphilis plush toy. Little Life Lesson #23: Giving someone a little stuffed version (plus googly eyeballs) of the disease they contracted will not make it any better that they have herpes or the Ebola virus.

I saw these things in the Discovery World gift shop.  They are stuffed animal microbes.  Some of the microbe stuffed animals you can buy are: brain cell, fat cell, salmonella, flea, the sore throat, bad breath, kissing disease, athlete’s foot, ulcer, Black Death, flesh eating disease, dustmite, and oh so many more wonderful diseases and cells.  Now, I don’t know about you, but, yeah, that’s kind of disturbing.  I mean, imagine someone noticing a little kid playing with a toy.  “How cute!” they say to the parents.  “Little Jane’s playing with a stuffed pink snake.”  Nope, that’s just a syphilis plush toy.

Little Life Lesson #23: Giving someone a little stuffed version (plus googly eyeballs) of the disease they contracted will not make it any better that they have herpes or the Ebola virus.

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