SARS....okay, apparently this thing is spreading. So here's what I'm thinking: SARS is a terrible name for a plague. I think we need to get ahead of this thing by giving it a new name right away. One that came to my mind this morning was the Hong Kong Flu. That way, when someone feels ill they could say, "I feel Hong Kong Flu-y."

Sorry. I couldn't pass it up.

I do think that SARS is a terrible name for a plague though...I mean, if it can't be preceded by "the" then it just doesn't work, i.e. "the flu", "the plague", and, although now a little archaic, "the cancer". In the vein of the X-Men and the rip-off Mutant-X (playing on the mutation theme), we could call it ColdX, PlagueX, or VirusX...heck, even XSARS sounds better than just SARS. Maybe just "the X". But of course that sounds a little too Gen-X...too played and 10 (Roman numeral: X) years ago. Maybe Xin Bien Flu? Ooohh...that gives me another idea, foreign words are always good....what about El Malo?
posted by Jimmy at 11:56 PM | |