Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:11:51 -0400
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Malapropism of the week
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Walter Miles wrote:

> In our house you hear a lot of "idiopathic" and "etiology," but I really
> like the idea of strongly ideological diseases.  Can't think of any good
> ones off hand.  The obvious thing is to name the political philosophy or
> party you favor least followed by a mental illness or condition of
> developmental delay.  There must be something better than that.

Don't know about strongly ideological, but any STD caught in the manner
that gives them their name should qualify for weakly ideological.  Those
with the abstinence ideology and the "virgin until marriage, don't ever
cheat, 'till death do us part" ideology don't get them that way.  Can
still get them in some cases from blood transfusions though.  And door
knobs.

-- Mike B.