What should our official state microbe be?
By adamg - 12/17/09 - 3:43 pm
Now that those four soon-to-be-exiled troublemaking reps have stopped blocking legislative action just because of some legal bills or something, it's time for the legislature to do what it does best: Proclaim something. And we need a state microbe now. We can't let Wisconsin get ahead of us!
Via Lowering the Bar.
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AIDS!
AIDS is not a microbe
HIV is a microbe - AIDS is one stage of disease it causes.
(betcha thought I'd say HIV virus ...)
Yeah yeah...
I do of course know that, but yelling HIV! just doesn't have the same Team-Americaish effect as yelling AIDS!
(Unless, possibly, if you call it "the hiv" [rhymes with "give"].)
Any microbe under
Any microbe under consideration should already have it's own plush toy so the children of Massachusetts could enjoy playing with the State Microbe. I myself am partial to E.coli.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/6708/
Sadly, I actually have a plush E.coli
So does Spatch, I believe. Don't ask.
http://www.giantmicrobes.com/
I know someone who is
I know someone who is allergic to dust mites and was going to buy them a dust mite plush but sadly they are not hypoallergenic so I decided not to.
I forgot they had their own site with so many more microbes to choose from! I will not question why you have an E.coli plush toy.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Brewer's yeast.
Couple of reasons:
* Model eukaryote organism used in thousands of research projects at area universities every day
* Boston Beer Brewery (Sam Adams) and Harpoon Brewery are both nationally known microbrewers
Don't forget fungi! Given the
Don't forget fungi! Given the progressive nature of Massachusetts, Candida might be a good feminist choice.
Deer Island Treatment Plant
Whatever microbes they use at Deer Island to clean the sewage.