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Tertian fever

Malaria is the 'tertian fever' because it strikes every third day. Are there other cyclic maladies?
  

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[nq:1]Malaria is the 'tertian fever' because it strikes every third day.[/nq]
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Don Phillipson
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[nq:1]Malaria is the 'tertian fever' because it strikes every third day. Are there other cyclic maladies?[/nq]
I had a girl-friend once who would go all weird on me every 28 days or so. Regular as clockwork.
Something to do with the tides I expect.
Jitze
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[nq:1]Something to do with the tides I expect.[/nq]
Speaking about the tides, I was eating popsicles on the beach and I noticed that they had jokes printed on the stick. The conversation rolled around to other sticky things and I wondered why someone didn't put jokes on tampon applicators. I couldn't think of an appropriate joke, though ... menstruation just ain't funny ...
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[nq:2]Something to do with the tides I expect.[/nq]
[nq:1]Speaking about the tides, I was eating popsicles on the beach and I noticed that they had jokes printed on ... didn't put jokes on tampon applicators. I couldn't think of an appropriate joke, though ... menstruation just ain't funny ...[/nq]
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