America does not know the difference between ‘flue’ and ‘flu’
Read it and weep, Internet-using America. The fifth most common search on Google earlier this morning, via Google Trends, was ’swine flue.’ Not ‘flu’ as in influenza, but ‘flue’ as in “can you make sure the flue is open? I’m afraid the fire we lit isn’t venting through the chimney.”
Number one is ‘you might be rich’ followed by a variety of variations on Dateline NBC, which I guess is another form of panic entirely.
America: right on target.
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Gah! So sad…
This is actually pretty funny. I wonder if these people actually have members of the family Suidae residing in their chimneys? Maybe this, in fact, is the epidemic-pigs taking up residence in our fireplaces, all across America. It’s not a strain of influenza we have to worry about, it’s bacon clogging up our chimneys.
Quick kids, close the flue before the swine get in!
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