1157: Sick Day

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Sick Day

Title text: Wikipedia path: Virus -> Immune system -> Innate immune system -> Parasites -> List of parasites of humans -> Naegleria fowleri -> Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis -> Deciding I DEFINITELY shouldn't connect an aquarium pump to my sinuses

Explanation

Randall's Wikipedia path: Virus →‎ Immune system →‎ Innate immune system →‎ Parasites →‎ List of parasites of humans →‎ Naegleria fowleri →‎ Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis.

Naegleria fowleri is supposedly also known as the brain-eating amoeba. It is found in warm bodies of stagnant fresh water (like in an aquarium?) and causes the disease primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, a rare but highly lethal condition.

Transcript

A pie chart showing with the following categories and approximate areas of coverage (Starting from the top, clockwise):

• 52% - Shifting around in bed feeling my skin crawl
• 24% - Wiping various face holes
• 5% - Staring at a news site but not reading it
• 15% - Thinking about how cool it is that I'm partly made of an army of critters that patrol my body ruthlessly dispatching anything they find trying to prey on me..
• 4% - Pondering hooking an aquarium pump up to my sinuses

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Discussion

I expected the title-text's "Wikipedia path" to end with "Philosophy". 173.8.183.86 07:19, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

My thoughts exactly! (Extended Mind--see title text.) Zelmo (talk) 15:45, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Is "Wikipeida" a deliberate typo? Does it mean something different than "Wikipedia", or does it just indicate that Randall is too sick to spell "Wikipedia" properly? 194.106.220.85 09:07, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

I don't think it was, since it has been corrected. However, the picture in here has not updated... 95.209.104.190 16:32, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

I expected the FIRST comment will resolve the wikipedia entries ... well ok: Virus -> Immune system -> Innate immune system -> Parasites (actually redirect) -> List of parasites of humans -> Naegleria fowleri -> Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis -> Deciding I DEFINITELY shouldn't connect an aquarium pump to my sinuses -- Hkmaly (talk) 09:30, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

This comic likely refers to the recent bout of flu making its way through most of the US, was on the news a couple days ago.--Relic (talk) 03:40, 9 January 2013 (UTC)