/ sees what you did there

was it a recruitment drive?

Legionnaire's what invade hotel in Florida?

Sybarite beat me, but

EPIC

Did they leave any crates of gold behind?

> Legionnaire's what invade hotel in Florida?

I'll take "Answered in linked article" for $100 Alex.

I saw this episode. I think Foreman gets infected.

ebenbrooks: Legionnaire's what invade hotel in Florida?

Legionnaire's disease. Commonly shortened to just "Legionnaire's"

/personally I would have put the apostrophe at the end to pluralise it.
//not subby
///not a Legionnaire,either

Almost ashamed to admit, this is the first thing I thought of...



/almost

ebenbrooks: Legionnaire's what invade hotel in Florida?

...and the first DNRTFAer has taken the bait!

Dubai Vol: ebenbrooks: Legionnaire's what invade hotel in Florida?

Legionnaire's disease. Commonly shortened to just "Legionnaire's"

/personally I would have put the apostrophe at the end to pluralise it.
//not subby
///not a Legionnaire,either

I would have put an s after invade, myself.

The Foreign Legion is the best unit in the French army. Coincidentally, it contains few Frenchmen.

Not a repeat from 1976?

saw it coming

roothog: I would have put an s after invade, myself.

What you do with yourself is your business

There are so many good reasons to run your water heater at 130F or higher and use mixing valves at all your taps. I don't know why people don't.

The Legion of Doom is wanted for questioning.

FTFA: People can become infected by breathing in mist or vapor contaminated with the bacteria.

Which pretty much means anyone who showered at the hotel has probably been exposed. Fortunately legionella doesn't remain dormant for long, so most of the victims will realize their fate soon enough.

You gotta have some really uncommonly bad luck to be the ONE person that contracted the disease and died. Sort of reminds me of a quote from the Hitchhiker's Guide - updated here for relevance:

"What do do if you contract Legionnaire's Disease while in a resort in Flordia, with no hope of a cure. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer."

FTFA: Last week a man in Gainesville died after contracting the disease from the water supply at Shands Cancer Hospital.

At least the hospital kept him from dying of cancer.

Barely survived legionaire's myself. Only reported case in AZ for that year.

/cool story bro

schattenteufel: The Legion of Doom is wanted for questioning.

Legion of Broom?

/pics disabled
//Refering to the infamous Flyers line?
///96-97 Red Wings > 96-97 Flyers

Yada yada yada, just some bad egg salad.

From TFA: "An investigation revealed that the hotel had installed a water filter powerful enough to remove chlorine from its city-supplied water, which encouraged bacterial growth, The Herald reported."

This is why I just laugh whenever I hear someone biatching about adding chlorine to drinking water. "Bla bla, chlorine is a poison, wharrgarble!" Yeah, and legionella is bad for you, too. The difference is it takes way less chlorine to kill legionella than it takes to kill a human, so chlorinated water has essentially a 0% chance of killing you, while water contaminated with legionella has a much higher chance.

To be honest legionella is one of my biggest fears. That shiat loves to grow in water fountains and a/c water coolers and when you actually get it, good bye.

Suede head: The Foreign Legion is the best unit in the French army. Coincidentally, it contains few Frenchmen.

From what I've read, about half of them are French. However, Frenchmen are not allowed to join, so they are signed on as coming from other French speaking countries.

Why don't more people get this? Dead guy sounds fat... er... I mean old.

Why is it Legionnaire's disease only strikes during Democratic regimes in America?

Clinton's term was full of them. W's? Not one.

protip remove chlorine near time for drinking

LurkyTheLurker: > Legionnaire's what invade hotel in Florida?

I'll take "Answered in linked article" for $100 Alex.

I believe he was making a joke about the use of the apostrophe in the headline. Yes, the headline was apparently supposed to be a joke, and yes the article says "legionnaires' disease", but I don't think it was a case of ebenbrooks not reading the article, rather just a joke. (I assume it was a joke, based on the submitter's mistake of placing the apostrophe before the S, and the fact that ebenbrooks used italics to emphasize "what".. but I could be wrong. IOW, "Legionnaire's invade hotel..." implies something owned by the legionnaire invaded the hotel. Or something)

ebenbrooks: Legionnaire's what invade hotel in Florida?

Dubai Vol: Legionnaire's disease. Commonly shortened to just "Legionnaire's"

/personally I would have put the apostrophe at the end to pluralise it.
//not subby
///not a Legionnaire,either

Kinda sucks to have your association's name on one of the more feared mass public health threats around. And it's not like they're responsible for creating, falling victim at a high rate, or spreading it- their convention fell victim in the incident where it was first identified.

I mean, what if it was a Republican convention where it was first identified- it would then be forever known as "Republican's Disease", aka republicanosis, caused by the microorganism known as Republicanella.

That would suck. Wait, that would be kinda awesomely funny. The headline "Health Inspector raises serious concerns over discovery of Republican's found in hotel hot tub". "Stricter disinfection practices urged to prevent breeding of Republican's". Awesome.

I'm a Legionnaire, but I don't go to their conventions, so I'm not sure if I'm supposed to get a kick out of these replies.

Seems like I should try do more to incorporate the title of the hotel into some little joke on here but alas I can't think of anything so it's an EPIC fail on my part.

I'm farking an animal, didn't have to say please
I'm farking an animal, with Legionnaire's disease
I'm farking an animal, damn hard on the knees
I'm farking an animal

/first thing I thought of

Had it in '79. Like having the flu with walking pneumonia.

Mrtraveler01: Seems like I should try do more to incorporate the title of the hotel into some little joke on here but alas I can't think of anything so it's an EPIC fail on my part.

Holy crotch. Did you duck under the first message when you entered the thread?

I actually died of Legionnaire's disease, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

No, really. When I was a kid, I died- temporarily- from misdiagnosed Legionnaire's disease. They thought it was just double-pneumonia, but it wasn't. It's just that Legionnella wasn't widely recognized at the time. Modern doctors recognized it in my medical history and told me what it *really*, most likely, was.

It killed me stone dead. I suffered enough damage to my brain from being dead that much of my memory prior to the day I woke from being dead was wiped out. I remembered basics (tying shoes, shapes, colors, names of things, and everything mundane) but didn't remember who I was, who my family was, or any of the details of my childhood up until that point.

I don't remember how it felt on the dying side of the sickness, but I remember waking up and feeling the recovery end of it. It was painful. My chest was on fire. My lungs felt useless. I couldn't breathe, I felt so weak I could barely move, and I slipped in and out of consciousness a lot. My throat was raw, though that may have been from the endoscopy.

I'm told the incident that led to my being rushed to the hospital was me having a seizure and collapsing on the floor of my cousin's house during the Christmas gathering. I was a child at the time.

I awoke not long after (minutes?), a new person who never got back the memory of being that other person. As far as I'm concerned, the boy my parents raised to that point is dead. I'm someone else who just happens to have the same body, but a different mind. My body was born in May, but the mind I have now was born in December, many years later.

So yes-- Legionnaire's is a biatch. It's no fun. It can and will kill you if it's not diagnosed properly. I was lucky that my heart kicked in and started beating again.

/Death is nothing. Literally nothing.
//No angels. No tunnel. No lost loved ones.
///It's like the state you are in before you're conceived. Remember it?
////Neither do I.
//You can probably guess that I'm not a fan of the holidays now.

"Legionnaires' (disease) invades hotel in Florida."

"Legionnaires invade hotel in Florida" or "Legionnaire's ghost invades hotel in Florida" would have been more interesting, perhaps.

Legionnaires' invades hotel in Florida.

Learn English, subby and everyone else in this thread who's placing the apostrophe incorrectly.

trappedspirit: Mrtraveler01: Seems like I should try do more to incorporate the title of the hotel into some little joke on here but alas I can't think of anything so it's an EPIC fail on my part.

Holy crotch. Did you duck under the first message when you entered the thread?

No, I saw it. It was just the best I could do. I'm ashamed of myself right now.

was his camel in disrepair?

nexirae: Legionnaires' invades hotel in Florida.

Learn English, subby and everyone else in this thread who's placing the apostrophe incorrectly.

Apostrophe?


Approves

ZeroCorpse: Christmas gathering. I was a child at the time.

Jesus??

PWildcat: Almost ashamed to admit, this is the first thing I thought of...



/almost

Definitely what I thought of first!

Did President Madagascar shut down the port yet?

ZeroCorpse: I awoke not long after (minutes?), a new person who never got back the memory of being that other person. As far as I'm concerned, the boy my parents raised to that point is dead. I'm someone else who just happens to have the same body, but a different mind. My body was born in May, but the mind I have now was born in December, many years later.

Has your family reported your personality to be completely different since that time?

Do you have the ability to tune?

There's a lot more to being human that just memories.

THIS IS MADNESS