Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Aaargh plop

From "Can cats spread avian flu?", Nature, Vol 440, 9 March 2006:

Peter Roeder, a consultant for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, says (Indonesian) locals have an onomatopoeic name for bird flu "that sounds like 'plop', the sound of a chicken hitting the ground when it falls out of a tree. They also have a name for the cat form of avian flu -- 'aaargh plop' -- because cats make a screaming noise before they fall out of the tree."

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2 Comments:

At 5:47 pm, Blogger Ben Rice said...

If Redd Foxx were still alive and got avian flu would we have "Elizabeth... Lizabeth, I'm coming...plop"?

 
At 2:57 pm, Blogger bemused said...

LOL! Thanks for the belly laughs.

You know I'm going to be repeating this one...

 

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